News of republicans

Biden under pressure as US inflation hits four-decade high

12-02-2022 09:30 US president faces battle to enact spending proposals and retain control of Congress following January inflation report showing large surge in the cost of living.

LGBT+ RIGHTS

'Don't say gay': Sex education fuels US culture wars

09-02-2022 17:24 Swelling mobilisation by US conservatives over what is taught in schools has led several states to push for new curbs on what educators can discuss related to sexual and gender identity.

DIPLOMATIC SPAT

US congressman: ‘Argentina has lashed itself to Chinese Communist Party’

08-02-2022 22:48 US lawmaker Matt Gaetz says “Argentina has lashed itself to the Chinese Communist Party” in the wake of last week's Belt and Road initiative announcement.

2022: THE YEAR IN PREVIEW

World Cup to Rio carnival: Six key events to come in 2022

01-01-2022 00:01 From the World Cup in Qatar to the midterm elections in the United States, here are six events that are likely to mark the coming year.

US Politics

Biden says Republicans have lost their way in 'mini-revolution'

05-05-2021 19:10 US President Joe Biden said Wednesday that America's Republicans face an identity crisis after Donald Trump's turbulent presidency.

AS I SEE IT

Joe Biden sounds the retreat

17-04-2021 08:04 Biden, like Trump before him, decided that the time had come to pull all his country’s troops out of Afghanistan. The only difference is in the departure date.

by James Neilson

United States

US House passes police reforms, voting rights bill

04-03-2021 15:33 The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act that bans choke holds and combats racial profiling cleared the US House of Representatives Wednesday.

UNITED STATES

Trump impeachment heads to Senate Monday, triggering trial

23-01-2021 09:03 Article of impeachment against former President Donald Trump will be delivered to the Senate on Monday, triggering the start of his unprecedented second trial in the chamber.

AS I SEE IT

Censorship is on the march

16-01-2021 09:05 Once upon a time, progressives, or “liberals” as North Americans call them, agreed that censorship was bad. They would have been appalled by the notion that the richest men on Earth were entitled to prevent the sitting US president, however obnoxious many thought him, from communicating with his followers.

by James Neilson

TRUMP ERA DRAWS TO CLOSE

US Republicans break with Trump, foreshadowing battle ahead

16-01-2021 08:58 Republican Party veers towards years of feuding as Donald Trump’s grip on the GOP starts to crack.

UNITED STATES

US Democrats move to impeach Trump in final days of presidency

11-01-2021 14:15 Democrats introduce article of impeachment accusing Trump of "incitement of insurrection" over his role in Wednesday's storming of the US Capitol by his supporters.

UNITED STATES

American carnage: Trump presidency careens toward violent end

09-01-2021 08:44 Four years after promising to banish “American carnage” in his inaugural address on the steps of the US Capitol, he brought it to the door of US democracy.

US ELECTION 2020

Trump fraud claims meet with limited Republican criticism

06-11-2020 18:42 Trump's unfounded accusations of fraud in the US presidential election condemned by some Republicans, but top party figures refuse to criticise remarks.

US ELECTION 2020

Democrats, Republicans flip one seat each in US Senate battle

04-11-2020 02:53 Democrats flipped a Senate seat Tuesday in their bid to regain control of the upper chamber of US Congress, but Republicans countered by ousting a vulnerable Democrat in Alabama, networks projected.

US ELECTION 2020

Biden, Trump barnstorm America’s Midwest in election home stretch

31-10-2020 08:39 US presidential candidates ramp up campaigning ahead of Tuesday’s crucial US election.

US ELECTION 2020

Explainer: Trump seizes on Biden-Ukraine story

22-10-2020 01:23 US President Donald Trump’s campaign has seized on a tabloid story offering a twist on a familiar line of attack: Joe and Hunter Biden’s relationship with Ukraine. Here's what we know.

US ELECTION 2020

Is time running out for Donald Trump?

10-10-2020 09:16 US president is desperate to get back on the road, despite coronavirus diagnosis. But his chances of winning look to be fading, with little time left to recover.

AS I SEE IT

The Trump-Biden bar-room brawl

03-10-2020 08:48 If, as seems to be the case, the “debate” between Trump and Biden faithfully reflected the mood of many in the United States today, the world’s most powerful country is undergoing a mental breakdown.

by James Neilson

US ELECTION 2020

Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett for US Supreme Court

27-09-2020 19:56 US President Donald Trump named Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Saturday, setting in motion a rush by Republicans to cement a conservative majority on the court.

US POLITICS

Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes history again, lying in state at Capitol

26-09-2020 10:30 Late Supreme Court lay in state Friday at the US Capitol, the first woman so honoured in the United States. Trump set to announce nominee later today.