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Peter FitzSimons: My favourite image from the Australian Sporting Dreamtime
Wonderful, that both Evonne Goolagong-Cawley and Shane Gould were named in the Australia Day Honours List yesterday.
- by Peter FitzSimons
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Trump wanted Mueller sacked but his lawyer refused to do it
Donald Trump ordered the sacking of special counsel Robert Mueller last June, but thought better of it after the White House counsel threatened to resign.
- by Michael S. Schmidt
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Donald Trump says willing to be interviewed by Mueller under oath
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would be willing to be interviewed under oath by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
California couple accused of torture ordered not to contact children
A judge barred the parents of 13 siblings found last week living captive in their home from contacting them.
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Olympics
Larry Nassar's trial should be just the start of the investigation, not an end
Where in the fresh red hell is an independent investigation into USA Gymnastics, and why isn't Congress threatening to smash the US Olympic Committee's charter into pieces with a gavel over this?
- by Sally Jenkins
Western sanctions tool under threat but not from Bitcoin
Venezuela's virtual currency "El Petro" has set alarm bells ringing in Washington over its threat to one of the big weapons in the US foreign-policy arsenal.
- by Keith Johnson and Elias Groll
Couple's innocent photos of their kids set off a 10-year legal saga
Lisa and A.J. Demaree's decade-long legal ordeal started with, by all accounts, an utterly innocent family moment.
- by Derek Hawkins
US not starting trade war, but sees China tech threat: US at Davos
The US is not starting a trade war but trying to level the playing field and fend off Chinese protectionism, US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said.
- by Mark Bendeich
Donald Trump, Rex Tillerson send 'thrilled' Australia Day note
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, on behalf of President Donald Trump, has offered an Australia Day congratulatory message.
Robert Mueller wants to question Donald Trump on his firing decisions
Special counsel Robert Mueller is seeking to question Trump about his decisions to oust national security adviser Michael Flynn and FBI Director James Comey.
- by Carol D. Leonnig
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'I'm coming to kill you': CNN receives threats over 'fake news'
On January 9, an operator in Atlanta manning the public contact number for CNN received a phone call in which male caller launched into a threat.
- by Trevor Bach