Donald Trump is again seeking to get the judge overseeing his upcoming New York criminal trial off the case, arguing the judge’s daughter’s work for a political consultancy with Democratic clients poses a conflict of interest. The Republican presidential candidate last year made a similar request for Justice Juan Merchan to recuse himself, but the judge denied the bid after …

Former leader of the free world Donald Trump has lashed out at former prime minister Kevin Rudd, characterising him as “not the brightest bulb”. In an interview with former far right British politician Nigel Farage on London’s GB News channel, the second-time presidential hopeful responded to years-old comments made by Rudd. Prior to his appointment as US ambassador, Australia’s 26th …

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear Donald Trump’s appeal of a judicial decision barring the former US president from Colorado’s Republican primary ballot, taking up a politically explosive case with major implications for the 2024 presidential election. At issue is the Colorado Supreme Court’s December 19 ruling disqualifying Trump from the state’s Republican primary ballot based on language in the …

Henry Kissinger, who died on November 29, 2023, at age 100, was a key figure in American foreign policy for more than 50 years. I am a scholar of American foreign policy who has written on Kissinger’s service from 1969 to 1977 as national security adviser and secretary of state under the Nixon and Ford administrations. I have seen how his foreign policy views and …

Billionaire Elon Musk has let fly with an expletive-laden spray at advertisers that have fled his social media platform X over antisemitic content. He told them to “Go f— yourself” in a fiery interview on Wednesday. His profanity-laced remarks followed a moment of contrition in a New York Times DealBook Summit interview, as he first said “I’m sorry” for a tweet that …

At a White House briefing early this week, Joe Biden’s press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, was asked whether there’d been any thought of postponing Anthony Albanese’s state visit because of the Middle East conflict. No, she said, highlighting the importance of alliances and reassuring that the president could handle more than one thing at a time. From Albanese’s vantage point it’s …

There are worrying signs in recent polling which raise the disturbing possibility that a third-party campaign by the Green Party may once again divert enough votes from the Democratic Party candidate, in this case almost certainly Joe Biden, to get Donald Trump over the line in some key states and thereby deliver another Trump victory. As this would be devastating …

US President Joe Biden will address the Australian parliament when he visits Canberra and Sydney for security talks. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will host the president alongside Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and Indian President Narendra Modi for the Quad summit next week. It will be the first visit by a US president in almost a decade and marks the fifth time …

US President Joe Biden says he will seek a second White House term in 2024, a decision that will test whether Americans are ready to give the 80-year-old Democrat another four years in office. Mr Biden made his announcement in a slickly produced video released by his new campaign team, in which he declares it is his job to defend …

Australia is in the market for at least eight nuclear-powered submarines, at a cost of at least $100 billion – the largest defence acquisition in the nation’s history. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak are expected to reveal the details of the deal on Tuesday (AEDT) in San Diego, where they convened …