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| UpdatedDonald Trump's new immigration ban includes those who hold US green cards. Here's a quick explainer on what it means to hold one.
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Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says the current Australia-US free trade agreement works in favour of the United States, and there has been no discussion of a renegotiation.
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| UpdatedWelcome to series two of the most watched reality TV series of our time. This week has been a whirlwind of executive orders, alternative facts and rogue tweets — and not from the President, writes Zoe Daniel.
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| UpdatedDonald Trump spends his first televised sit-down interview as US President insisting his inauguration speech saw the biggest crowd in the history of presidential inaugurations.
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How the elevation of Donald Trump, and the early days of his presidency, has the hallmarks of an outrageous primary school election strategy.
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| UpdatedDonald Trump's sweeping immigration orders are bringing long-awaited relief to border patrol agents on America's southern frontier, but concerns are being raised about the logistics of mass deportations.
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| UpdatedDonald Trump's suggestion to pay for his proposed border wall with a 20 per cent tariff on Mexican exports to the US could make "things ranging from avocados to flat-screen TVs" more expensive, according to the Mexican Foreign Minister.
Topics: world-politics, us-elections, community-and-society, immigration, united-states, mexico
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| UpdatedFaced with Trump's 'declaration of war', some European leaders have now taken the gloves off where the US president is concerned.
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says he is confident the Government's refugee resettlement deal with the US will go ahead despite concessions from senior cabinet ministers that the arrangement is not set in stone.
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Out with the old and in with the new! The DC Wash Up is back and ready to break down the first days of the Trump Administration. North America Bureau Chief Zoe Daniel and producer Roscoe Whalan welcome new North America correspondent Conor Duffy to the team and are joined by a special guest, The Australian's Cameron Stewart. From trade to immigration to inauguration crowd sizes - it's been a "yuuuge" week.
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| UpdatedTreasurer Scott Morrison outlines an "Australia first" trade policy after US President Donald Trump signs an executive order to leave the Trans-Pacific Partnership using similar language.
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US President Donald Trump stands by his belief millions of people voted illegally in the US election "based on studies and evidence", the White House says.
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| UpdatedThe US Senate confirms Mike Pompeo to be President Donald Trump's Central Intelligence Agency director, despite some politicians' concerns he might expand surveillance or allow the use of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, which are widely considered to be torture.
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US President Donald Trump officially declares the day of his inauguration the National Day of Patriotic Devotion as one of his first executive orders.
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| UpdatedLeaders of agricultural lobby groups say they will back the Government's push for a Trans-Pacific Partnership deal without the US.
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| UpdatedEnergy Minister Josh Frydenberg says the Government has no plans to scrap its renewable energy targets, despite internal criticism and concerns US President Donald Trump may withdraw from the Paris climate change agreement.
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| UpdatedThe founder of the Be The Change movement in Fiji, Roshika Deo, is warning that the Trump presidency in the United States could have a devastating impact on the Pacific islands.
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| UpdatedDonald Trump signs an executive order formally pulling the US out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, while also ordering the US government to stop hiring more workers.
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| UpdatedA legal watchdog group files a lawsuit alleging that US President Donald Trump is violating the constitution by allowing his businesses to accept payments from foreign governments.
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An early job for US President Donald Trump will be to nominate a new Supreme Court justice. Who he picks, along with any future nominations, could set the course of the court — and the lives of Americans — for a generation to come.
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| UpdatedUS President Donald Trump offers a scattershot response to the sweeping protests against his new administration, undermining the public opposition and then defending demonstrators' rights a short time later.
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| UpdatedPresident Donald Trump's team says his inauguration was watched by more people than any other. It wasn't.
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| UpdatedProtesters who took part in women's marches around the world on the day after US President Donald Trump's inauguration say they marched for equality, freedom, opportunity in the future and to put an end to fear.
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| UpdatedDonald Trump promised to drain the swamp of political insiders during his lengthy election campaign, but now as President he must learn to work with the very politicians he rose to power railing against, writes Stephanie March.
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Politics is the new black for big investors, with economics as a driver of market sentiment becoming somewhat passé.
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