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Paul McGeough

Paul McGeough is chief foreign correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald.

Pamela Ramsey Taylor wrote of Michelle Obama: "I'm tired of seeing an ape in heels."

Trump makes America hate again

There have been hundreds of hate crimes since election night, and there are fears the pain is only just beginning.

US President-elect Donald Trump visits US President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House last week.

Trump backer says US refugee swap deal is 'dead on arrival'

Canberra's get-out-of-jail card on the future of the hundreds of Australia-bound refugees on Nauru and Manus Island may have a very short shelf-life, with the head of a prominent US anti-immigration think tank warning: "this is the kind of thing the Trump administration will nix on Day 1."

Donald Trump.

Donald Trump wins the US election

In a stunning late surge in the early hours of Wednesday, insurgent Republican Donald Trump has amassed just enough voter support to push him through the door of the White House.