World

Paul McGeough

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

Nobody knows which Donald Trump will prevail when he enters the Oval Office on January 20.

US agencies probe suspected Kremlin-Trump election funding

Just days before Donald Trump's swearing in as American president, a news report has revealed the remarkable breadth of a joint investigation by no less than six US intelligence agencies of claims that Russia helped the Trump campaign – and of the credibility the agencies attach to information that Trump dismisses as 'crap'.

Trump has promised an inauguration that would be "very, very special, very beautiful".

The ugly American

Sightings of the stereotypical ugly American usually are reported from abroad, but this

Trump says Hillary Clinton was 'guilty as hell' over the email claims.

Trump courts trouble with Nazi jibe

At best it's careless to call anyone a Nazi – but to liken all of the US intelligence agencies to Hitler's goons is to recklessly seek trouble.

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama share a dance at their second Inaugural ball in January 2013.

Obama's legacy could be sunk by Donald Trump

It's an end-of-term ritual. The outgoing president glides from the peak of one success to the next, sketching a preferred draft of his own legacy and at the same time, daring historians to repudiate it.