Fed chairman Jerome Powell has been reluctant to speculate about how Donald Trump’s policies might affect the central bank’s decisions.

The Trump fire is burning on Wall Street

The American people are losing confidence in Donald Trump,sending shockwaves through Wall Street. And that’s before “Liberation Day”.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

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Elon Musk speaks at a town hall Sunday wearing a yellow foam cheesehead hat.

This US state is electing a Supreme Court judge,but this poll is really all about Elon Musk

A judge,a former politician and the head of the Young Republicans walk into a bar. No,it’s not a joke – it’s a Thursday night in Wisconsin and there’s an election to be won.

  • Michael Koziol
Today’s fast-moving,high-tech environment can make some people feel overwhelmed

Sure,Trump’s stooges messaged their secret war plans to the world,but who hasn’t done something similar?

Haven’t we all written something nasty about someone,and accidentally texted it to them,or shared top level national secrets with an investigative journalist?

  • Elsie Flanagan-O'Neill
President Donald Trump and his key advisers

‘The outsiders’:Who’s who in Trump’s new White House

Some are predictable picks for their roles,most are not. Meet the people you’ll be seeing a lot in the next three years.

  • Angus Holland
It doesn’t matter if you’re organising a golf weekend,a hens night,or a tactical strike against Houthi strongholds in Yemen;we must all abide by the unspoken group chat rules.

Whether making weekend plans or war plans,these are the unspoken rules of the group chat

Whether you’re organising a golf weekend or a tactical strike against the Houthis,the rules of the group chat apply to us all.

  • Thomas Mitchell
US Vice President J.D. Vance speaks at the US military’s Pituffik Space Base in Greenland on Friday.

Vance attacks Denmark in ‘aggressive’ visit to Greenland

President Donald Trump has repeatedly said the US should take over Greenland and has not ruled out the possibility of using military force to do so.

  • Benedict Smith
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White House national security adviser Mike Waltz,left,speaks with US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth last month. Waltz added the journalist to the group chat,Hegseth divulged highly sensitive military details.

‘They screwed up’:Intel community aghast at Trump team’s security breach

For US allies,including Australia,the Signal chat scandal is another reminder that this administration cares little for established norms and protocols.

  • Michael Koziol
In this image taken from security footage,Rumeysa Ozturk,a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University,is detained by Department of Homeland Security agents on a street in Sommerville,Massachusetts.

‘Looked like a kidnapping’:Student’s arrest in Trump crackdown caught on camera

The 30-year-old doctoral student was walking to meet friends for dinner when a man grabbed her on the footpath.

  • Jake Offenhartz,Kathy Mccormack andMichael Casey
America,led by Donald Trump (pictured here with Xi Jinping in 2019),is becoming more like China at a rapid rate.

Peter Hartcher on how Trump is remaking America in China’s image

A secret directive issued by Xi Jinping in 2013 holds the key to the most successful one-party dictatorship in the world. Peter Hartcher in The Morning Edition says it appears the new US president has been reading it.

Rumeysa Ozturk,30,had just left her home to meet with friends when she was detained by US Department of Homeland Security agents,lawyer Mahsa Khanbabai said.
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CCTV shows federal agents handcuffing Turkish student at Tufts University

Rumeysa Ozturk,30,had just left her home to meet with friends when she was detained by US Department of Homeland Security agents,lawyer Mahsa Khanbabai said.