Yesterday
Iran oil exports hit six-year high as West considers tougher sanctions
Iran’s success in exporting its crude underscores the difficulties facing the West as it seeks to build pressure on Tehran following its attack on Israel.
- Malcolm Moore and Najmeh Bozorgmehr
US House to vote on Ukraine and Israel aid, despite hardliners
Republican Speaker Mike Johnson says the long-awaited vote on aid for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific should go ahead as soon as this weekend.
- Patricia Zengerle
- Opinion
- Trade wars
Biden’s trade action against China is just polite Trumpism
Improved relations between the two powers can’t mask age-old trade tensions. Better communication is important because the structural problem between them is insoluble.
- Edward Luce
This Month
New Yorkers’ unvarnished views of Donald Trump aired in ‘hush money’ trial
Hundreds of potential jurors are being sifted through as the court faces a huge challenge selecting more than a dozen people from heavily Democratic Manhattan.
- Joe Miller
- Analysis
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
A US diplomatic victory of uncertain staying power
Joe Biden hoped the successful defence against Iran’s attack on Israel could give the major actors enough to claim victory and walk away. But Israel does not work that way.
- Peter Baker
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The risks to Biden of Israel going rogue against Iran
The problem is that ‘ironclad’ support can be read as a blank cheque to Israel to take whatever military action it sees fit — confident that, when the chips are down, America will have its back.
- Updated
- Gideon Rachman
- Opinion
- Foreign relations
Iran’s attack opens up a new world of risk
Iran’s drone and missile strike against Israel didn’t do much damage, but the potential response is unsettling the White House as well as global markets.
- Jennifer Hewett
Iran’s attack increases pressure on US Congress over aid
Speaker Mike Johnson has sat for two months on a $US95 billion supplemental package that would send support to US allies, and provide aid for civilians in Ukraine and Gaza.
- Stephen Groves
Iran is now caught up in a mess of its own making
The Tehran regime’s use of proxy forces has left it boxed into a regional fight that it does not really want.
- Patrick Gibbons
Joe Hockey must be minting money
The former treasurer’s shop has added ex-defence minister Marise Payne and a Japanese diplomat to its roster.
- Mark Di Stefano
Boris Johnson: ‘You can’t make America great again if Ukraine falls to Putin’
The former UK PM urged Republicans in Congress to unite against Russia to maintain America’s status as the world’s pre-eminent superpower.
- Benedict Smith
- Opinion
- Russia-Ukraine war
Trump’s Republicans are now Putin’s puppets
Republicans have a stark choice before the US presidential election: help Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky or pay fealty to Donald Trump.
- Edward Luce
Biden blames Trump for ‘cruel’ abortion ruling in battleground state
Democrats quickly aimed to capitalise on the key election issue after an Arizona court ruling upholding an 1864 law that bans nearly all abortions.
- Jonathan Cooper
TSMC gets $17b in grants, loans for US chip plants
The Taiwanese chipmaker will construct a third factory in Phoenix, Arizona, adding to two facilities in the state that are expected to begin production in 2025 and 2028.
- Mackenzie Hawkins and Jennifer Jacobs
Trump seeks to outdo Biden fundraiser with glittering Palm Beach affair
The event, hosted by billionaire John Paulson, follows a concerted push by the Trump campaign to tackle a long-standing financial disparity with the president.
- Updated
- Michael Gold
- Analysis
- US election
The uneasy truce between Donald Trump and Fox News
Every media outlet in the world is grappling with how to cover Donald Trump, as his pronouncements become more stuffed with false claims. But the dilemma is most vexing for Fox News.
- Updated
- Anna Nicolaou, Lauren Fedor and Daniel Thomas
Bowing to pressure, Israel agrees more aid to Gaza
The agreement came after Joe Biden threatened to alter support for Israel following aid worker deaths in Gaza, during a tense phone call with Israel’s prime minister.
- Updated
- Peter Baker
- Opinion
- Electric vehicles
The big worry for car makers: what if the EV slowdown is not a blip?
If politicians cannot persuade consumers to buy EVs, will they tear up their net-zero pledges, or turn to other measures to drive sales?
- Updated
- Peter Campbell
NATO mulls $165b ‘Trump-proof’ military fund for Ukraine
The proposals would give the Western alliance a more direct role in co-ordinating the supply of arms, ammunition and equipment.
- Updated
- Andrew Gray and John Irish
Trump’s immigration rhetoric makes inroads with some Democrats
The Republican candidate has ramped up anti-immigrant rhetoric, and it appears to be resonating with some of the voters Joe Biden will need to win over.
- Will Weissert and Jill Colvin
