John McCain's health delays vote on Trumpcare
The "repeal and replace" slogan of last year's campaign was presumed to be a done deal in the heady aftermath of the election, but these days it hangs by a thread.
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Paul McGeough
Paul McGeough is chief foreign correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald.
After liberation, anxieties echo in the rubble of Mosul
The challenge now is to ensure that the cycle of destruction does not repeat itself.
Donald Trump junior hand-delivers smoking gun
Trump snr has repeatedly denounced charges of collusion with Russia as "fake news" and a "total hoax". That line of defence has now been blown out of the water.
Trump's 'Russia thing' becomes a family affair
The President's attempts to dance around Russian meddling in the 2016 election that brought him to power have been upended - by his own son.
At the G20, big-ticket items see Trump in majority of one
Whatever the leaders, and their armies of spin doctors, say about their encounter in Hamburg should be taken with a grain of salt.
When the pale blue helmets stand for rape, abuse and impunity
In 2003, the UN declared sexual abuse and exploitation reprehensible. But an investigation has tallied almost 2000 allegations against its peacekeepers and civilian staff since 2005.
Big dogs' bite at G20 to be muzzled by weight of history
Some analysts wonder if there a room in the German port city big enough to house the Trump and Putin egos.
Trump risks creating a crisis with Beijing over North Korea
Trump has told China that the United States will go it alone in confronting North Korea – without saying what that means.
Trump has a win on his travel ban - sort of...
"A clear victory for our national security," Trump declared. But people from the six "banned" countries will still enter, and the order may still fail the legal test.
Can court straighten out twisted US democracy?
In a nation of 320 million people, it could fall to one self-effacing man to erase America's rotten boroughs and change the map of the country for years to come.
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