Zoe Daniel is the ABC’s US bureau chief and has been based in Washington since December 2015. She was the ABC's South East Asia correspondent from 2009 — 2013 and Africa correspondent from 2005 until 2007. Zoe co-hosted the international news program The World on News 24 and Australia Plus. Zoe is the author of Storyteller, which provides a personal insight into her life as a foreign correspondent, as well as juggling a family. Follow Zoe on Twitter or Facebook.
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It's all a game in US politics. The latest casualty? FBI boss James Comey, fired by President Donald Trump for not "doing a good job".
Topics: donald-trump, world-politics, foreign-affairs, united-states
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Phone call, schmone call! It was a bit of a love-in when the PM met the US President in New York this week, writes Zoe Daniel. The two leaders put their "testy" chat behind them and talked up each other's health care achievements instead.
Topics: world-politics, donald-trump, united-states
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| UpdatedAs Malcolm Turnbull flies back to Australia following a meeting with Donald Trump, the White House clarifies the US President's comment that Australia's healthcare system is "better" than the US system.
Topics: donald-trump, world-politics, government-and-politics, federal-government, turnbull-malcolm, healthcare-facilities, health, united-states, australia
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After 100 days as president, Donald Trump has had to embrace his inner pragmatism on a few fronts.
Topics: donald-trump, government-and-politics, world-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedPresident Donald Trump's primary domestic focus has been on jobs and the economy under the banner of "America first". So, how do Americans judge his performance in his first 100 days?
Topics: federal-government, government-and-politics, world-politics, immigration, community-and-society, united-states
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| UpdatedIt's been a week of visits from sports stars, protests over his tax returns and questions over travel. ABC Washington bureau chief Zoe Daniel catches you up.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, donald-trump, united-states
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| UpdatedRefugees on Manus Island are being fingerprinted and photographed by US Department of Homeland Security officials as part of the US-Australia resettlement deal but many details of the plan remain uncertain.
Topics: refugees, government-and-politics, federal-government, world-politics, australia, united-states, papua-new-guinea, nauru
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US President Donald Trump pre-empts an upcoming meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, saying America will act alone on the North Korean nuclear threat if China does not.
Topics: donald-trump, world-politics, defence-and-national-security, united-states, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, asia
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| UpdatedThe Republicans managed to shoot themselves in the foot in grand style on health care last week, but not one to be deterred by a setback, Donald Trump this week set his sights on advancing his ambitious economic and energy agenda.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, donald-trump, climate-change, environment, health, health-insurance, health-policy, united-states
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| UpdatedA four-year study is beginning in Canada to assess the successes and failures under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's policy to welcome refugees from Syria.
Topics: refugees, immigration, community-and-society, canada
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It wasn't a great week for the US President. He hit his first big legislative hurdle on Capitol Hill and the FBI confirmed it was investigating links between the Trump campaign and Russia. But hey, he got to sit in a truck.
Topics: donald-trump, world-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedThe architect of the US-Australia refugee deal says the arrangement for America to take refugees from Nauru and Manus Island was loosely contingent on Australia considering resettling people from Central America, Africa and reuniting separated refugee families.
Topics: world-politics, foreign-affairs, united-states
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| UpdatedThe US Department of Homeland Security will begin fingerprinting refugees on Manus Island and Nauru in preparation for resettlement in America under the US-Australia refugee deal.
Topics: immigration, community-and-society, refugees, papua-new-guinea, united-states, australia
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| UpdatedCanada is seeing a big spike in the number of asylum seekers crossing the border from the United States, with many saying they're coming because of Donald Trump's restrictions on refugees and immigration.
Topics: immigration, world-politics, canada, united-states
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| UpdatedCriticism of Donald Trump's health care plan seems to be bipartisan. The leak of his 2005 tax return turned out to be a useful distraction.
Topics: donald-trump, world-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedNot anymore, according to ABC Washington bureau chief Zoe Daniel. But in her latest wrap from the US, she writes the new President has actually begun to bury a few hatchets.
Topics: donald-trump, world-politics, government-and-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedIt was all pomp, ceremony and snipers on rooftops in Washington, DC, this week as the US President gave his first speech to Congress in a kind of replacement State of the Union.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, donald-trump, united-states
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| UpdatedDonald Trump is bypassing mainstream media outlets, which he calls "fake news", and giving favour to conservative news organisations. So how should the media respond?
Topics: donald-trump, world-politics, media, united-states
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| UpdatedThe ABC’s US bureau chief has recapped the week that was as President Trump marks his second month in the job.
Topics: world-politics, foreign-affairs, donald-trump, us-elections, united-states
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A hastily-made press conference, some big love-ins and a round of golf made for another big week in the White House, ABC Washington bureau chief Zoe Daniel writes.
Topics: foreign-affairs, world-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedMichael Flynn's resignation following his "loss of trust" as national security advisor follows the Obama administration relieving him of the position as Defence Intelligence chief over insubordination.
Topics: world-politics, us-elections, united-states
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| UpdatedFirst thing each day, as I savour my morning coffee, I read the President's tweets, writes Zoe Daniel. It's a wake-up call like no other.
Topics: united-states
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| UpdatedThe confusion-meter hit Code Red in DC this week, with conflicting messages over the Australia-US refugee deal from the White House, the State Department, US President Donald Trump and PM Malcolm 'Trumble' Turnbull, Zoe Daniel writes.
Topics: world-politics, donald-trump, turnbull-malcolm, united-states, australia
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| UpdatedAustralia's deal to send refugees to the United States is up in the air, with the White House saying Donald Trump has not yet decided whether to honour the agreement and the State Department saying it will go ahead.
Topics: refugees, immigration, donald-trump, government-and-politics, united-states, australia
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| UpdatedPresident Donald Trump has picked Neil Gorsuch as his nominee for the US Supreme Court, but who is he?
Topics: us-elections, donald-trump, law-crime-and-justice, united-states