US and Russia 'one step away from combat'
Trump's response to Tuesday's sarin gas attack was visceral, heartfelt and entirely understandable. But in contradicting his every tweet, it triggers alarms.
Paul McGeough is chief foreign correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald.
Trump's response to Tuesday's sarin gas attack was visceral, heartfelt and entirely understandable. But in contradicting his every tweet, it triggers alarms.
If there was a selfish, inward-looking core to Donald Trump's election-winning "America First" philosophy, it took a backseat to human decency on Thursday.
He has the economic power and the military might of the US behind him. But as Donald Trump receives Chinese leader Xi Jinping at his Florida resort Mar-a- Lago on Thursday, worries persist that the US president hasn't done his homework.
The rise and rise of controversial White House star strategist Stephen Bannon has hit a wall.
Has Donald Trump's rhetoric emboldened Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to unleash more suffering on his own people.
Much is made these days of a Trump handshake, so all eyes will be on the meeting of hands, as much as of minds when Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is received at the White House on Monday.
Rex Tillerson's transition from the corporate sphere to the world of diplomacy – and the diplomacy of the world – has Washington transfixed.
A day after he tweeted that the Trump Russia story was a "hoax" Donald Trump's administration was revealed to be going to extraordinary lengths to thwart the airing of explosive evidence before a congressional committee.
After being burnt in a failed effort to overhaul healthcare, the Trump administration is making clear that it wants to own the first makeover of the US tax code in more than 30 years.
Measured against past meltdowns, Friday's humiliating healthcare defeat should have sparked savage finger-pointing and name calling. Instead, the White House is quiet.
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