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North America
Steve Martin launches new mission to bring Aboriginal art to the world
The American actor and fellow collector John Wilkerson wanted to “spread the word” about the paintings they love. Increasingly, they feel they’ve accomplished their mission.
- by Michael Koziol
Latest
European leaders, Japan offer to help Trump unblock Strait of Hormuz
In a meeting with Japan’s prime minister, Donald Trump said he didn’t warn allies about his attack on Iran because he wanted it to be a surprise, like the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour.
- by Michael Koziol
Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s campaign to ‘disappear’ his criminal past online
After he left jail in 2009, Epstein hired a host of people to make him look better on Google, Wikipedia and many other places on the web.
- by Tiffany Hsu and Ken Bensinger
Exclusive
Trump's White House
Revealed: Trump’s new job for Australian ‘alpha male’ Nick Adams
The Sydney-born Trump diehard will serve as special presidential envoy for “American tourism, exceptionalism and values” after being dumped as US ambassador to Malaysia.
- by Michael Koziol
Editorial
Donald Trump
Australian troops have died for a US lie before. An unhinged Trump wants us to go again
Political leadership is about rising to the occasion, but US President Donald Trump looks in danger of deflating.
- The Herald's View
Opinion
Trump's America
Right-wing tradwives have some advice for women – do what they say, not what they do
The stars of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives – who rose to fame by peddling the traditionalist lifestyle to a new generation – are living a very different reality.
- by Katy Hall
Opinion
Middle East at war
Trump’s Epic Fury is grandiose, as he wanted. But it’s more of an epic fail
The US president has unleashed global chaos with his war on Iran. At this stage, the only geographical location that won’t be negatively affected is Epstein Island.
- by Melanie La'Brooy
Explainer
Trump diplomacy
Unfinished business: Why Trump is squeezing Cuba
Without oil from Venezuela, the island nation is in crisis. Now Trump says he will ‘take’ it. How did Cuba get here, and what’s next?
- by Angus Holland
Analysis
Middle East at war
Trump, hit by the karma bus, wins on battlefield but loses on diplomacy
Allies are berated when they don’t offer to help, and belittled when they do. As with the sudden resignation of MAGA ally Joe Kent, what goes around comes around.
- by Michael Koziol
Updated
Foreign relations
‘We don’t need anyone’s help’: Trump lashes out at NATO allies, Australia over Iran war
The president named Australia among the countries whose help he no longer needed in the effort to unblock the crucial Strait of Hormuz, and went as far as saying that the US should rethink its involvement in NATO.
- by Michael Koziol
A mum wrote a children’s book about grief after her husband died. She was just convicted of his murder
The debt-ridden author slipped five times the lethal dose of fentanyl in a cocktail and falsely believed she would inherit his multimillion-dollar estate, prosecutors say.
- by Hannah Schoenbaum