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US-led global order took decades to build. Trump dismantled it in 100 days
With China on the rise, a historian expects the US president’s actions to ‘portend a new trajectory’ in world affairs.
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Trade
US finalises tariffs on Southeast Asian solar imports
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Harvard University sues Trump over threats to cut US$2.2 billion in funding
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Crime
Wife of former US senator Bob Menendez convicted in bribery scheme
Nadine Menendez helped New Jersey businessmen in exchange for gold, cash and car. Husband was convicted on same bribery charges last year.
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Nadine Menendez arrives at a federal courthouse in New York on Monday ahead of her conviction on bribery charges. Photo: AP
US immigration
Mexican leader asks TV stations to pull ‘discriminatory’ US anti-immigration ad
In ad, US homeland security chief Kristi Noem warns migrants who commit crimes ‘we will hunt you down’ because ‘criminals are not welcome’.
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Trump’s Fed feud sparks market turmoil, dollar dips, gold hits record high
Gold soared as investors fled US assets amid fears of Federal Reserve interference.
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Pentagon faces ‘meltdown’ as Trump backs Hegseth amid second Signal chat storm
Defence Secretary’s ex-spokesman says there is a ‘meltdown’ at Pentagon over staff drama, leaks as Hegseth faces scrutiny over Signal chats.
22 Apr 2025 - 2:37AM
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US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly shared Yemen attack details on the app Signal, raising security concerns amid Pentagon leaks. Photo: Reuters
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Oldest active Nasa astronaut turns 70 after 220 days in space
Don Pettit returned to Earth on Sunday, the day of his milestone birthday, in a Soyuz capsule with two Russian cosmonauts.
21 Apr 2025 - 3:38PM
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US toy retailers fear ‘really difficult Christmas’ as China tariffs bite
After a 145 per cent tariff shock, US toy executives are warning of a Christmas crisis and pleading for exemptions.
21 Apr 2025 - 7:11PM
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Pentagon chief ‘had another Signal chat’ sharing Yemen strike details: reports
Pete Hegseth’s second group chat, dubbed ‘Defence Team Huddle’, included US defence secretary’s wife and brother, The New York Times reported.
21 Apr 2025 - 1:08PM
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El Salvador
El Salvadore’s Bukele suggests prisoner swap with Maduro for Venezuela deportees
Proposal comes as El Salvador has come under international scrutiny for accepting Venezuelans and Salvadorans deported by the US.
21 Apr 2025 - 10:28AM
Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador, at the White House in Washington on April 14. Photo: EPA-EFE
Gun violence in the US
Man who fatally shot 23 at Texas Walmart to plead guilty to murder 6 years on
Patrick Crusius expected to receive life sentence with no possibility of parole for the 2019 racist attack near the US-Mexico border.
21 Apr 2025 - 1:15AM
United States
Trump aid cuts strain response to health crises worldwide: WHO
Since taking office, President Trump has frozen foreign aid funding, moved to dismantle USAID, and announced plans to leave the WHO.
20 Apr 2025 - 11:58PM
Israel-Gaza war
‘Everything is stuck’: dad of American hostage urges US to hold Hamas talks
‘It seems like the negotiations are stalled, everything is stuck and we are kind of back to a year ago,’ Adi Alexander says.
20 Apr 2025 - 11:00AM
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LGBTQ book controversy in Maryland schools spills over to US Supreme Court
Montgomery County parents are upset over ‘sexual’ content of books which school district say are representative of families in the area.
20 Apr 2025 - 10:27AM
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Thousands protest, as new round of anti-Trump rallies hits US cities
Demonstrators took aim at the US president’s deportation of migrants and his administration’s ‘direct assault’ on the rule of law.
20 Apr 2025 - 7:10AM
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Trump officials say Harvard letter sparking legal battle was sent by mistake
The Ivy League university declined to ‘surrender’ to the letter’s demands, prompting an escalating series of attacks by the US president.
20 Apr 2025 - 2:24AM
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Canada
Canada PM Carney vows deeper deficit to fund defence and infrastructure
The Liberal plan would run deeper deficits to cut income taxes, grow infrastructure spending and reduce the country’s dependence on the US.
20 Apr 2025 - 12:20AM
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney announces the release of his party’s platform during his Liberal Party election campaign tour, at Durham College in Whitby, Ontario, on Saturday. Photo: Reuters
United States
US Supreme Court hits pause on deportations of Venezuelan migrants
Lawyers had filed urgent requests saying the men were at imminent risk of removal without the judicial review previously mandated by the court.
19 Apr 2025 - 2:33PM
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Trump goes to war with the US Federal Reserve: a ‘recipe for disaster’?
The president’s conflict with the Fed could threaten the central bank’s independence and destabilise US financial markets, analysts warn.
19 Apr 2025 - 12:00PM
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Man wrongly deported from US says he’s been moved from El Salvador mega-prison
The update came from Senator Chris Van Hollen after he met Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man at the centre of a debate on rights and immigration.
19 Apr 2025 - 3:08PM
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US lawsuit challenges revocation of visas for international students
The suit represents over 100 students from China, India and elsewhere, after many lost their legal status in a Trump administration crackdown.
19 Apr 2025 - 3:28PM
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Demonstrators hold a “Hands off higher education” sign at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Thursday. Photo: AFP
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Trump turns White House Covid website into page pushing China lab leak theory
The updated website now accuses Anthony Fauci of promoting a ‘preferred narrative’ that the deadly disease originated in nature.
19 Apr 2025 - 3:03AM
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Trump studying whether to fire Fed chair Powell, adviser says
A bid to remove Powell would threaten the Fed’s independence and could further roil markets already battered by Trump’s tariff war.
19 Apr 2025 - 1:52AM
E-commerce
Shein, Temu to increase US prices next week, reflecting new tariffs
In nearly identical statements, Shein and Temu said prices would increase following US policy changes expected to impact how they operate.
18 Apr 2025 - 5:30PM
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Open Questions series
Scholar Jing Qian on right-sizing China’s economy in the age of Trump
10 Feb 2025 - 12:57PM
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US-China rivalry doesn’t have to be a zero-sum game: Jessica Chen Weiss
10 Feb 2025 - 6:49AM
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China’s rise, potential recession, no WWIII yet: 11 key interviews from 2024
23 Dec 2024 - 2:30PM
Why eco-warrior Ma Jun sees hope for China’s role in Cop29 amid US uncertainty
22 Nov 2024 - 12:38PM
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Historian on why we aren’t heading towards WWIII yet and how wars have changed
8 Nov 2024 - 12:01AM
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Scholar Jing Qian on right-sizing China’s economy in the age of Trump
10 Feb 2025 - 12:57PM
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US-China rivalry doesn’t have to be a zero-sum game: Jessica Chen Weiss
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China’s rise, potential recession, no WWIII yet: 11 key interviews from 2024
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Why eco-warrior Ma Jun sees hope for China’s role in Cop29 amid US uncertainty
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