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    Trump diplomacy

    Yesterday

    President Joe Biden, gets a hug from a supporter at Mary Mac’s Tea Room in Atlanta.

    Biden’s Atlanta trip highlights duel with Trump for black voters

    While overwhelming support from black voters was key to Joe Biden’s 2020 victory, there’s concern among his supporters that Donald Trump is making inroads.

    • Skylar Woodhouse, Nancy Cook and Akayla Gardner
    Donald Trump speaks during the Leadership Forum at the National Rifle Association annual convention in Dallas.

    Trump pledges to be gun owners’ most ardent ally

    The former president accepted the endorsement of the National Rifle Association, claiming that the right to bear arms was “under siege” by the Biden administration.

    • Jazmine Ulloa
    A Geely Zeekr 001 EV at the Zeekr Centre in Shanghai. The shift in the US approach towards China from engagement to full-throttle competition is no longer in doubt.

    The US-China trade war has helped polarise ASEAN

    Regardless of their alignment or dependence on one side or the other, South-East Asian states need to stay focused on their common regional interests.

    • Joseph C. Liow

    This Month

    Wind turbines in Kansas. The former president believes they are a cancer risk.

    Trump shows the cost of pettiness among the powerful

    Donald Trump’s vendetta against wind turbines is not unusual among plutocrats and tech lords who believe they should have more say.

    • Paul Krugman
    Beth Sanner: “If you … start influencing policy more than informing it, then it’s a slippery slope.”

    ‘We don’t know the truth’, says senior CIA officer

    Beth Sanner was Donald Trump’s daily intelligence briefer for two years. Few people know the boundaries between secrecy and democracy so well.

    • Kevin Chinnery
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    Scott Morrison with US dignitaries including Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo.

    ScoMo brings Rudd closer to Trump

    At Washington DC in front of Republican dignitaries, Scott Morrison finally spoke to a room familiar with his cadence.

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    • Myriam Robin
    Scott Morrison and Donald Trump at Trump Tower, Manhatten,

    AUKUS is ok with Trump, says Morrison

    Donald Trump has indicated solid support for the AUKUS submarine deal, according to former prime minister Scott Morrison, who met with the former president at Trump Tower in New York on Wednesday AEST.

    • Matthew Cranston
    Jim Justice is running for Joe Manchin’s US Senate seat.

    Why this Trump acolyte is key to finding some of Greensill’s billions

    The fight to recover funds owed to Credit Suisse clients has landed with West Virginia coal baron and senate hopeful Jim Justice and a small Virginia bank.

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    • Owen Walker and Joshua Franklin
    Stormy Daniels exits the courthouse in New York, Tuesday (Wednesday AEST) after taking the stand  and testifying about her alleged sexual encounter with Trump in 2006.

    Stormy Daniels’ graphic testimony of alleged Trump sexual encounter

    The remarkable testimony is the latest example of how Donald’s Trump’s dealings with women are coming back to haunt him in court.

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    • Erik Larson, Patricia Hurtado and David Voreacos
    Nothing to fear. Donald Trump speaks to Miami Formula One winner Lando Norris on Sunday (Monday AEST).

    Gallows humour and escape: Trump’s possible return rattles Washington

    Much of official Washington is bracing for the former president’s return – this time with ‘retribution’ as his avowed mission, the discussion is about self-imposed exile.

    • Peter Baker
    Donald Trump has repeatedly declined to rule out violence if he loses in November.

    Europe should brace itself for a Trump victory

    The difference between 2024 and 2016, when Trump last won the presidency, is that this time he has a plan. From Europe’s perspective, it would look like Fortress America.

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    • Edward Luce
    Donald Trump speaks outside the courtroom at the Manhattan criminal court.

    Trump threatened with jail, fined for contempt of court

    The former president was ordered to pay the fine by the end of the week, and he deleted, as ordered, the offending posts from his Truth Social account.

    • Michael Sisak and Jennifer Peltz

    April

    Donald Trump and Joe Biden are set to face off again in this year’s presidential election.

    With Trump in court, can Biden take control of the election?

    As polls show the race tied, the president is campaigning around the country and his opponent is stuck spending his days in a Manhattan courtroom.

    • James Politi, Lauren Fedor and Joe Miller
    South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol suffered a blow at recent elections.

    South Korea’s president faces revolt over US security ties

    After his party’s loss in parliamentary elections, Yoon Suk-yeol is under pressure over his pivot to a stronger US alliance and perceived anti-China policies.

    • Daniel Sneider
    Richard Marles visits Ukrainian troops outside Lviv, near the Polish border, on Saturday.

    Fight to the last Ukrainian

    More aid is clearly a relief for Kyiv, but will it be enough to reverse the tide of the war?

    • James Curran
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    Donald Trump and Jerome Powell were at loggerheads when he was President.

    Trump to set interest rates himself under secret presidential plan

    Donald Trump’s aides plan to roll back the independence of the US Federal Reserve if he returns to the Oval Office.

    • Tim Wallace
    Chinese electric cars like those made by BYD are gaining market share in Europe.

    How China plans to win the global EV war

    The US and European governments are increasingly alarmed at the potential for China’s EV ambitions to put their own car manufacturers at risk.

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    • Jennifer Hewett
    Joe Biden:

    US to rush weapons to Ukraine as Biden signs aid bill

    The Pentagon said it would rush the first $1.5 billion in aid to Ukraine, including shoulder-fired Stinger surface-to-air missiles and other air defence munitions.

    • Zolan Kanno-Youngs
    Donald Trump

    Tabloid publisher says he sought to shield Trump from sex scandals

    The effort to suppress unflattering information was designed to illegally influence the election, prosecutors have alleged.

    • Michael Sisak, Eric Tucker, Jennifer Peltz and Jake Offenhartz
    Kevin Rudd, as umpire, hosting the Kangaroo Cup at the Australian embassy in DC.

    Kevin Rudd and CNN put on a US tennis clinic

    The former prime minister’s shaking mud off his polo and getting on with tennis diplomacy.

    • Mark Di Stefano