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Rudy Giuliani ordered to pay $220m for false 2020 election claims
Donald Trump’s former lawyer has been ordered to pay two election workers $US148 million after he promoted false claims they stole the election in Georgia.
- Spencer S. Hsu, Tom Jackman, Rachel Weiner and Olivia Diaz
- Analysis
- US election
‘It’s a fricken civil war’: Republican Party tears itself apart
Donald Trump’s Senate acquittal has triggered a wave of recrimination and score-settling inside the Republican Party.
- Jacob Greber
Lachlan Murdoch vows to stay true to US’ ‘centre-right’ audience
Rupert Murdoch’s eldest son has defended Fox News, which embraced and gave credence to Donald Trump’s widespread election fraud allegations.
- Jacob Greber
Trump impeachment trial will start week of February 8
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is poised to send the article of impeachment against Donald Trump to the Senate on Monday (Tuesday AEDT); Lloyd Austin is confirmed as Defence secretary. Follow news here.
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- Timothy Moore
- Opinion
- Biden's White House
Two raging viruses among Biden's biggest challenges
Dealing with the coronavirus pandemic may be one of President Biden's best prospects of early success, but expectations he'll restore national unity as the other virus of disinformation rages should be tempered.
- Simon Jackman
January 2021
- Opinion
- Biden's White House
Can Biden really unite America? Probably not
During the past two decades, public life in the United States has undergone a terrible deterioration.
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- Tom Switzer
- Analysis
- Biden's White House
South-east Asia looks forward to welcoming US back to the fold
Four ASEAN nations have territorial disputes with China in the South China Sea. Yet they still engage diplomatically. The US has fallen way behind, policy experts say.
- Emma Connors and Natalia Santi
‘A total failure’: The Proud Boys now mock Trump
As Trump departed the White House on Wednesday, the Proud Boys, once among his staunchest supporters, have also started leaving his side.
- Sheera Frenkel
- Opinion
- Biden's White House
There was no carnage, just poetry
Americans heard a call for unity and a staunch defence of their most hallowed institutions as Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th US president.
- Updated
- Jacob Greber
Kamala Harris sworn into history
Kamala Harris was sworn in as Vice-President of the United States on Wednesday, stepping into history as the highest-ranking female politician in American history.
- Chelsea Janes and Cleve A. Wootson
Top Fox News managers depart amid Murdoch concerns over election night
Bill Sammon, 62, the channel's senior vice president and managing editor in Washington, told staffers early this week about his retirement.
- Sarah Ellison
McConnell says Trump ‘provoked’ Capitol mob
Mitch McConnell's remarks were the clearest signal yet that after four years of enabling Trump, he now regards him as a force who could drag down the party.
- Nicholas Fandos
Trump is starting his last full day in office hiding from the public
As his approval ratings plummet to historic lows, US President Donald Trump is also plotting to steal President-elect Joe Biden's thunder.
- Sinéad Baker
Prospect of pardons in final days fuels market in access to Trump
The brisk market for pardons reflects the access peddling that has defined Donald Trump's presidency as well as his unorthodox approach to exercising unchecked presidential clemency powers.
- Michael S. Schmidt and Kenneth P. Vogel
Trump to flee Washington and seek rehabilitation in a MAGA oasis: Florida
Even as the outgoing President broods over his second impeachment last week and the election he continues to falsely insist he won, his aides are at work to establish a Trump fiefdom in the Sunshine State.
- Philip Rucker, Josh Dawsey and Ashley Parker
Biden plans flurry of executive orders, new legislation for first days
The day he takes office, the new president is planning to return the United States to the Paris climate accords and repeal the ban on US entry for citizens of some majority-Muslim countries.
- Updated
- Matt Viser
James Murdoch blasts US media for unleashing ‘insidious forces’
The remarks by Rupert Murdoch’s youngest son are his strongest public rebuke of America’s news industry since he parted ways with the family business built by his father.
- Alex Barker
- Analysis
- Analysis
Trump, Twitter and the messy fight over free speech
The decision to ban the President has demonstrated the unaccountable power of the big social media companies.
- Richard Waters and Hannah Murphy
Biden's plan to fix a broken America
Joe Biden's pathway to success – and America’s by extension – is narrow and fraught. But it does exist.
- Jacob Greber
Biden unveils $US1.9trn economic and healthcare relief package
The US President-elect has set a high bar for Republican endorsement, but the package will be important to all poorer voters.
- Erica Werner and Jeff Stein
- Analysis
- Donald Trump
Could McConnell’s signal to Republicans open floodgates against Trump?
The outgoing Majority Leader is ready to wash his hands of Trump and he might just see the impeachment process as a ready-made solvent.
- David Catanese
- Opinion
- Opinion
America’s political crisis runs deeper than ideology
You can only counter the legacy of Trump if you first grasp why he was so potent to start with.
- Gillian Tett
Airbnb to cancel Washington DC bookings over militia threat
Airbnb said it made the decision after consulting local and federal officials and after a number of hosts worried about potential attacks sought to cancel bookings.
- Anirban Sen and Ankit Ajmera
With more Republicans on board, Democrats move on impeachment
Vice-President Mike Pence has rejected overtures for him to invoke the 25th amendment of the US constitution to remove Donald Trump.
- Richard Cowan, Susan Cornwell and David Morgan
Biden stays out of sight while Trump runs MAGA victory lap
In a bitterly divided nation groping towards Joe Biden's presidency eight days away, both men were speaking a language their supporters understood.
- Anne Gearan
