A Washington Post report said Donald Trump had abruptly ended a phone call with Malcolm Turnbull.
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The US embassy in Canberra has been forced to reaffirm that Donald Trump’s undertaking to honour the refugee deal stands.
Trump prefers his trade negotiations to be tête-à-tête.
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Trade under Trump will mean more bilateral agreements, hard bargaining and ultimatums, a sharp departure from Obama’s multilateral, win-win approach.
Sen. Tim Scott waits in line to vote in Hanahan, South Carolina, 2016.
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President Donald Trump is promoting the widely discredited idea of voter fraud. Spreading the myth will make it easier to tighten voter ID laws.
The U.S. Supreme Court.
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Historical data suggest that a contentious candidate can delay a president’s progress on other initiatives.
People rally in New Brunswick, N.J. against President Trump’s ‘travel ban.’
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Our panel of experts examines whether immigration leads to more crime using data from across 200 metropolitan areas and 20 years of research.
President Dwight Eisenhower at the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Feb. 2, 1956.
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President Trump gave a speech at the Prayer Breakfast that pledged to be “tougher” in international dealings and protect religious liberty. How does it compare with past Presidents?
Turning its back on global talent?
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US businesses have benefitted from diversity and immigration has been an important source of this.
Happy partnership?
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There’s no middle ground when it comes to a president like this.
Here goes.
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Neil Gorsuch’s views seem to put him to the right of many, if not most, Americans.
Pussyhat pride: two protestors in Austin, Texas.
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Craftivism allows feminists to reclaim traditionally feminine skills – and defy oppression.
America first, but at what cost?
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Trump’s ‘America first’ rhetoric implies that the internationalism and ‘enlightened self-interest’ that built the postwar order was a big mistake. The evidence and basic economics disagree.
This will be part of your permanent record.
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The law says official presidential records must be preserved. How do tweets figure in – particularly when they’re altered or deleted?
Demonstrators outside Terminal 5 of Chicago’s O'Hare airport on Jan. 29, 2017.
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A constitutional scholar considers the legal arguments that could undo Trump’s executive order barring travel by residents of seven Muslim majority countries.
Malcolm Turnbull will make a fresh pitch for the government’s embattled proposal to cut company tax.
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Malcolm Turnbull on Wednesday will acknowledge that despite long-sustained economic growth, in many parts of Australia ‘times are not so good’.
Slipping backwards.
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Torture is the ultimate abuse of state power over the individual. If the US returns to using it, all hell could break loose.
Hezbollah supporters in Lebanon protest against the war in Yemen in October 2016.
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Gulf countries have a history of using migrants’ rights as a tool in their geopolitical strategy.
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In 1888, Chae Chan Ping was denied re-entry into the US, where he had lived for 12 years. Times are supposed to have changed.
Keep it lit.
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Can the new administration be swayed if the people keep up the pressure?
Anger at Trump’s immigration controls continues to spread.
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Trump has pointed the finger at Obama for creating the list of seven countries in his new travel ban.
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There’s is often high drama behind the smiles, photo opportunities and carefully crafted language.