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Travellers stand in long queues at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Sunday in Atlanta, Georgia as travel disruptions continue. Photo: Getty Images / AFP
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Trump administration touts plan for ICE at airports amid criticism

The Transportation Security Administration said the government move does not solve what they see as the underlying problem of pay.

Obituaries

US ex-special counsel Robert Mueller dies. Trump: ‘I’m glad he’s dead’

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Trump threatens to put ICE agents in US airports amid TSA funding clash

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US government sues Harvard over anti-Israel protests, ‘hostile environment’

The Trump administration is seeking to be released from its obligation to pay millions of dollars in federal funds to the university.

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Demonstrators gather to protest Harvard’s stance on the war in Gaza and show support for the Palestinian people outside Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in April last year. Photo: AFP
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US woman charged with murder after taking abortion pill in Georgia

The woman gave birth to a premature infant who died within hours after taking misoprostol.

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Trump-picked panel approves gold coin with his image: ‘the larger the better’

⁠The coin would depict a stern-looking Trump leaning over a desk and staring forward.

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US, Israel war on Iran

FBI ‘investigating’ top US security official who resigned over Iran war

The probe into Joe Kent apparently predates his sudden departure as head of the National Counterterrorism Centre.

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Joe Kent, who has quit as director of the National Counterterrorism Centre. Photo: AP
US, Israel war on Iran

Iran can still attack US interests, government appears intact: US spy chief

If a hostile regime survives, it will seek ‌to begin a years-long effort to rebuild its missiles and drone forces, she told US lawmakers.

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US Fed defies Trump to keep interest rates unchanged amid Iran war concerns

Spiking oil prices could fuel inflation and curb growth, even as the US president repeatedly calls for rate cuts.

US-China relations

US says mainland China has no plans to attack Taiwan in 2027

Beijing seeks to control the island without the use of force, the US intelligence community confirms in its annual report on global threats.

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The People’s Liberation Army conducts military drills near Pingtan island, in eastern China’s Fujian province, the closest point to Taiwan, on December 30, 2025. Photo: AFP
Science

Opinion | Why Americans should welcome China’s rise in science

Greater competition may curb the influence of politics and vested interests distorting the US innovation system.

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Crime

US House panel subpoenas Pam Bondi in Epstein probe

US attorney general faces accusations that the Justice Department has concealed the names of Epstein associates in its release of documents.

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Fashion

Explainer | All about US President Donald Trump’s favourite shoe brand, Florsheim

Trump has gifted J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth the US$145 Lexington model … but why is the brand owner suing his administration?

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Trump administration can resume ‘third-country’ deportations, appeal court rules

Attorney General Pam Bondi called the ruling, that deports undocumented migrants to countries that are not their own, a ‘key win’.

US Attorney General Pam Bondi. Photo: EPA
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Trump administration urges judge to revisit ruling blocking Powell subpoenas

A federal judge had ruled on Friday that a DOJ investigation into Powell was intended to pressure the Fed chairman to lower interest ‌rates.

US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Photo: Reuters
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BBC asks US court to dismiss Trump’s US$10 billion lawsuit

Documentary was ‘never aired in Florida – or the US’, the British broadcaster said, adding it was challenging the court’s jurisdiction.

United States

Judge quashes subpoenas of Fed chair, says probe was ‘politically motivated’

A ‘mountain of evidence’ suggests the subpoenas were to pressure Jerome Powell to obey Trump’s demands to cut interest rates, the judge says.

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Trump’s ‘racist hate speech’ fuelling rights violations in US, UN panel says

UN watchdog is ‘deeply disturbed’ by dehumanising language and condemns the use of lethal force in recent immigration and protest crackdowns.

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters
China-Latin America relations

US threats and a Chinese cable scandal mark first day for Chile’s new president

The US forced Chile to cancel a Chinese undersea cable. Now the region is asking who gets to decide what infrastructure Latin America builds.

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United States

Election to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene leads to run-off

The race to replace high-profile conservative Greene, who resigned following a split with Trump, now heads to a high-stakes April 7 contest.

US, Israel war on Iran

Will Trump ‘Taco’ on Iran? Analysts say he’s looking for a way out

High oil prices and voter anger could be prompting the US president’s comments that the war could end soon.

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A visitor walks past a cartoon of Donald Trump holding a man wrapped in a taco at an exhibition at the Caricature Museum in Mexico City in November 2016. Photo: AP
United States

US activists, politicians rally on anniversary of civil rights march

The US Supreme Court is considering a case that could limit the ability of minority voters to elect their chosen candidates, spurring protests.

Politicians and activists participate in a commemorative march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge for the 58th anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’, when state troopers beat peaceful voting rights protesters who were marching across the bridge, in Selma, Alabama, on Thursday. Photo: Reuters
United States

US judge voids actions by Voice of America acting CEO, including job cuts

US District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that Kari Lake’s ⁠leadership of the US Agency for Global Media violated federal law.

US-China relations

As US universities retreat from China, who is filling the academic void?

Many elite Sino-American ventures have ended under the strain of geopolitics but other, more diverse, programmes are emerging.

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US sheds 92,000 jobs in warning sign for Trump’s economy

Unemployment crept up, while job numbers showed a surprise reversal from growth in the previous month.

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Workers rebuild a home in Altadena, California, on Friday. The US construction sector lost 11,000 jobs in February. Photo: AFP
Fame and celebrity

Meet Narciso Rodriguez, the designer of Carolyn Bessette’s wedding gown

FX’s Love Story is bringing back the nostalgia of JFK Jr. and Bessette’s romance – but what has her friend Narciso Rodriguez said about her?

Narciso Rodriguez designed Carolyn Bessette’s dress for her wedding to John F. Kennedy Jr. Photos: @AFP; @vintage.daddios/Instagram
Donald Trump

US government releases Epstein files that include claim about Trump

DOJ says files were initially ‘incorrectly coded as duplicative’, and therefore were inadvertently not published along with other records.

United States

24 US states sue to stop Trump’s latest global tariffs

The lawsuit argues that the president cannot sidestep the Supreme Court ruling that invalidated his previous sweeping import duties.

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