Paul McGeough

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

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton mimics the voice of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as ...

Hillary Clinton takes Kentucky

Hillary Clinton is narrowly ahead of Bernie Sanders in Kentucky's Democratic US presidential primary with 99 per cent of the vote counted.

Senator Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, backed allowing the families of September 11 victims to sue the ...

US Senate clears way for 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia if found to have role in attacks

The seeming inevitability of a showdown between America and its fabulously wealthy but disgruntled ally Saudi Arabia firmed on Tuesday, when the US Senate voted unanimously to allow victim families to sue the kingdom for any part it might have had in the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign stop in Athens, Ohio.

Hillary Clinton, too timid on campaign trail, counts on Donald Trump going too far

ANALYSIS

After thinking that Hillary Clinton had the Democratic presidential nomination in the bag and that the remaining primaries – such as Tuesday's in Kentucky and Oregon – are largely irrelevant, we perhaps need to revisit that issue.

House Speaker Paul Ryan following his meeting with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Paul Ryan warms to Donald Trump, but stops short of endorsement

Like Cold War enemies, the GOP factions go to the November 8 general election asking Americans to believe they have retreated from the brink of mutually assured destruction.

Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee.

Ahead of Paul Ryan meeting, Donald Trump under attack over tax returns

Donald Trump's grip on the Republican presidential nomination has drawn a scathing new leadership-level attack on the New York billionaire.

Grand designs in Rudd's House of Cards

Run, Rudd, Run. Can the former Prime Minster 'who pissed everyone off' snare the UN's top job?

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Charleston, West Virginia.

Is Trump a walking oxymoron ... or simply a moron?

COMMENT

Most of what this candidate offers as policy has a shelf life – sometimes it lasts just hours; more often it survives for days or weeks. There may be a reason why.

Senator Ted Cruz in Indianapolis earlier this month.

Defeated presidential candidate Ted Cruz just won't die

One of a bunch of Republican presidential wannabes who were outgunned by Donald Trump, seemingly is rising from political death – and like Monty Python's Black Knight, he wants to go another round.

To beat Donald Trump, we need Mitt Romney, says Sarah Palin-backing neocon William Kristol

ANALYSIS

Republicans who rightly fear for the future of their party might be forgiven a slight shudder when they see their latest would-be saviour riding the ridgeline – that would be William Kristol, neoconservative commentator.