Trump will 'respect' deal made with 'Trunbull'
Following a day of embarrassing revelations about US President Donald Trump's phone conversation with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, the White House has said it will honour the refugee deal.
Josephine Tovey is a New York-based reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald.
Following a day of embarrassing revelations about US President Donald Trump's phone conversation with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, the White House has said it will honour the refugee deal.
President Donald Trump has defended his "tough" approach to speaking with foreign leaders in his first public remarks since details of his tense phone conversation with Australian prime minister Malcolm Turbull became public, even as criticism mounts over his treatment of a stalwart US ally.
The White House appears to be backing away from a commitment to honour a deal struck by the Obama administration to take more than a thousand refugees from Australia's offshore detention centres.
Inauguration met with a tidal wave of protest, with hundreds of thousands flooding Washington DC and huge crowds in other cities across the United States.
One of the most prominent American white nationalists was punched in the face during an interview with the ABC on the streets of Washington DC shortly after Donald Trump's inauguration on Friday.
The bitter divisions that Donald Trump has exposed in the United States were evident on every street corner of Washington DC on Friday.
Asked about their motivations for going, the women cited a mix of revulsion for Trump and as well as his policies.
Rapper Kanye West, who recently declared that if he had voted in the recent presidential election, it would have been for Donald Trump, has been spotted entering Trump Tower.
Fake news, usually with outrageous clickbait headlines, is warping our sense of what is real and what isn't.
Since Donald Trump's extraordinary election victory last week, I've seen Americans around me reacted in a range of ways - celebration, street protests, crying on public transport. But one reaction that's less visible have been the quiet, concerned calls to health clinics by some women looking to obtain IUDs.
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