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    US election

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    Donald Trump.

    They still hate him, but Wall Street’s big donors turn to Trump

    Exasperated with Joe Biden’s policies, top financiers are increasingly on board for a second Trump term despite being alienated during his first presidency.

    • Rob Copeland
    Shame about the “pile-on”: Donald Trump with Scott Morrison at his penthouse apartment in Trump Tower.

    Morrison says Trump legal ‘pile-on’ political

    Speaking in Washington, Scott Morrison backed Donald Trump’s assertion that America’s legal system is being used against him.

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    • Matthew Cranston
    Donald Trump and Joe Biden are set to face off again in this year’s presidential election.

    ‘Let’s get ready to rumble’: Biden and Trump agree to TV debates

    The two men will go head-to-head on CNN on June 27 then on ABC News on September 10.

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    • Zeke Miller and Jill Colvin
    Barron Trump was largely shielded from the media while he was growing up.

    How 18-year-old Barron Trump could follow in his father’s footsteps

    The youngest of Donald Trump’s children graduates high school this week, which makes him a target for the press.

    • Kate Wills

    Yesterday

    Michael Cohen

    Cohen tells of Trump’s Oval Office deal to pay ‘hush money’

    Michael Cohen’s story of a deal struck in the White House with Donald Trump was the only personal account tying the former president to falsified documents.

    • Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich and Maggie Haberman
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    This Month

    Biden v Trump

    Trump leads in crucial states as Biden’s support unravels

    A new set of polls shows the US president is behind in five of six battleground states, as the economy, Israel’s war and a desire for change press on voters.

    • Nate Cohn
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    What a second Trump presidency could bring

    The influential American conservative platform Project 2025 has spent two years crafting a 900-page proposal for key areas of immigration, tax and trade.

    • Matthew Cranston
    Former President Donald Trump walks to the courtroom following a break in his trial at Manhattan criminal court on Thursday.

    Trump’s long week in court as election looms

    Stormy Daniels’ allegations of a sexual encounter with Trump set the courtroom alight this week. How they play into his election chances is unclear.

    • Matthew Cranston
    Stormy Daniels testifies as a promotional image for one of her shows is displayed ona  monitor.

    Stormy Daniels accused of profiting off Trump sex claims

    The former president’s lawyers are trying to undermine the porn actor’s credibility as the trial resumes in Manhattan.

    • Joe Miller
    Stormy Daniels exits the courthouse in New York, Tuesday (Wednesday AEST) after taking the stand  and testifying about her alleged sexual encounter with Trump in 2006.

    Stormy Daniels’ graphic testimony of alleged Trump sexual encounter

    The remarkable testimony is the latest example of how Donald’s Trump’s dealings with women are coming back to haunt him in court.

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    • Erik Larson, Patricia Hurtado and David Voreacos
    Former president Donald Trump

    Judge threatens Trump with jail over ‘hush money’ gag order

    The former US president suggested that he would be willing to risk incarceration after the judge’s warned him over repeatedly breaching the gag order.

    • Jack Queen, Luc Cohen and Andy Sullivan
    Nothing to fear. Donald Trump speaks to Miami Formula One winner Lando Norris on Sunday (Monday AEST).

    Gallows humour and escape: Trump’s possible return rattles Washington

    Much of official Washington is bracing for the former president’s return – this time with ‘retribution’ as his avowed mission, the discussion is about self-imposed exile.

    • Peter Baker
    Donald Trump and Kristi Noem in 2018.

    How one public gaffe can destroy your career

    Potential Trump vice president candidate Kristi Noem, who admits shooting her dog, is not the only public figure to have disastrously misjudged popular opinion.

    • Henry Mance
    Donald Trump has repeatedly declined to rule out violence if he loses in November.

    Europe should brace itself for a Trump victory

    The difference between 2024 and 2016, when Trump last won the presidency, is that this time he has a plan. From Europe’s perspective, it would look like Fortress America.

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    • Edward Luce
    US President Joe Biden at the White House this week.

    A bystander to ’60s protests, Biden now becomes a target

    The protests pose two political risks to Joe Biden. They could worsen his estrangement with the left and feed into a narrative that he has presided over disarray.

    • Peter Baker
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    Trump advertised contempt for a US-designed global order rooted in the rule of law.

    The US presidential election is casting a long shadow over the Fed

    Lingering inflation has caused hopes for US interest rate cuts to wither. That means the Federal Reserve risks becoming dragged into a divisive election.

    • Karen Maley
    Joe Biden has said that he is hoping Jerome Powell will announce a rate cut this year.

    Powell bristles at election influence on rate cuts

    The Federal Reserve chairman has taken umbrage at suggestions monetary policy decisions will be influenced by the US presidential election.

    • Matthew Cranston
    Donald Trump speaks outside the courtroom at the Manhattan criminal court.

    Trump threatened with jail, fined for contempt of court

    The former president was ordered to pay the fine by the end of the week, and he deleted, as ordered, the offending posts from his Truth Social account.

    • Michael Sisak and Jennifer Peltz

    April

    Donald Trump and Joe Biden are set to face off again in this year’s presidential election.

    With Trump in court, can Biden take control of the election?

    As polls show the race tied, the president is campaigning around the country and his opponent is stuck spending his days in a Manhattan courtroom.

    • James Politi, Lauren Fedor and Joe Miller
    A demonstrator stands outside the Supreme Court as the justices prepare to hear arguments over whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution.

    Top US judges sympathetic to Trump in historic immunity case

    Conservative Supreme Court judges signalled support for the former president on his claims of protection from prosecution in a case likely to impact the US election.

    • John Kruzel and Andrew Chung