Yesterday
Fauci calls on China to release medical records of Wuhan lab workers
The US infectious disease expert says the records could help resolve the debate over the origins of the virus that has killed more than 3.5 million people worldwide.
- Eva Mathews
US investors banned from investing in 59 Chinese companies
The Biden administration has extended Donald Trump’s blacklist on Chinese companies that it says threaten security and human rights.
- Matthew Cranston
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are building a $US1b nuclear reactor
The Microsoft co-founder’s company, TerraPower, and the investor’s company, PacifiCorp, said they had selected Wyoming for their first atomic project.
- Kate Duffy
This Month
America unwinds pandemic welfare as labour market tightens
More than 40 per cent of the extra payments handed out in the US will be switched off by the end of next month as the jobs market rapidly recovers.
- Matthew Cranston
Elon Musk files trademark paperwork for a Tesla restaurant
Trademarks are generally set forth for brands planning to start a franchise or go national. It’s a move that indicates plans for big growth.
- Hannah Elliott
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink sees potential for ‘big shock’ from inflation
Most people have only experienced declining inflation so rising consumer prices are “going to be a pretty big shock”, the executive said.
- Annie Massa
Biden review poses critical minerals test for Australian miners in US
Two Australian mining projects go to the heart of the Biden’s administration’s race to be self-reliant on critical mineral supply chains.
- Updated
- Matthew Cranston
Biden suspends drilling leases in Alaska, reversing Trump
While the move follows Biden’s Inauguration Day executive order to halt new Arctic drilling, it also serves as a high-profile way for the President to solidify his environmental credentials.
- Coral Davenport, Henry Fountain and Lisa Friedman
How Naomi Osaka shifted the power balance in sport
The days of the grand slam tournaments and the huge media machine behind them holding all the clout are over.
- Kurt Streeter
Ex-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell attends QAnon conference in a biker vest
Ms Powell, who filed dozens of lawsuits trying to overturn last year’s election result, falsely told the crowd that Donald Trump can be ‘reinstated’.
- Eliza Relman
Why Americans have started eating cicadas
Every perfectly manicured TV anchor worth their salt in Washington, DC, has grimaced and wolfed one down live on camera over the past few weeks.
- Nick Allen
May
- Opinion
- Biden's White House
Biden dashes the hopes of a true believer
It’s become clear that Joe Biden, on whom many had pinned their hopes, isn’t going to reverse America’s decline: he’s hastening it.
- Zoe Strimpel
‘Moneyball’ author’s 19-year-old daughter dies in crash
Dixie Lewis, whose father is writer Michael Lewis, was a passenger in a car driven by her friend and former Berkeley High School classmate, who also died.
America’s record gun-buying spree fuelled by pandemic
Not only are people who already have guns buying more, but people who never owned firearms are buying them.
- Sabrina Tavernise
US inflation rises on pent-up demand and shortages
Consumer prices as measured by the personal consumption expenditures price index, excluding food and energy components, increased 0.7 per cent last month.
- Lucia Mutikani
Mass grave found at former indigenous school site in Canada
The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found with the help of a ground penetrating radar specialist.
- Anna Mehler Paperny
Republican senators block probe of Capitol riot
Nearly all Senate Republicans voted against an independent and nonpartisan investigation of the January 6 riot at the US Capitol.
- Karoun Demirjian
Biden proposes $7.7trn budget in push to reshape economy
This will take the United States to its highest sustained levels of federal spending since World War II.
- Jim Tankersley
Biden orders review of COVID-19 origins as lab leak theory debated
Joe Biden’s unusual public disclosure about inconclusive US intelligence assessments revealed a debate raging within his administration over where the novel coronavirus originated.
- Trevor Hunnicutt and Nandita Bose
Top US health official calls for second probe into pandemic’s origins
Experts will not rule out that the virus may have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a research lab that studies coronaviruses.
- Yasmeen Abutaleb, Shane Harris and Ben Guarino
