The Latest Breaking News from America

‘If you’re a Democrat, taste your freedom,’ Young sang at a benefit concert in Los Angeles

American businesses are cancelling orders from China, postponing expansion plans and hunkering down to see what trade policy surprises President Donald Trump plans to spring on them next

Trump signed an executive order to limit the impact of overlapping tariffs on automakers. He also released a proclamation that gives the industry a two-year grace period to move supply chains back to the United States and reduce "American reliance on imports of foreign automobiles and their parts."

A landmark security pact to overhaul Australia's navy with American muscle faces growing scepticism, stoked by its eyewatering cost and growing distrust of US President Donald Trump.

Something tells me US president Donald Trump would love to be a Roman emperor. The mythology of unrestrained power with sycophants doing his bidding would be seductive.

Australia’s ‘rose-coloured’ view of the US has been shattered and the prime minister will be forced into previously unthinkable decisions at a time of escalating global conflict

The HBO show highlights a health-care crisis we can no longer afford to ignore—and the risk to patients is very real.

Motivated by grievances against allies and foes, US president is ‘tearing down’ the modern global order, analysts say.

As in life, trust matters in international politics. Vital for cooperation and reciprocation, trusting someone nevertheless leaves one vulnerable should they break faith and pursue self-serving goals. As US political scientist Andrew Kydd recognised, trust is the belief that someone “prefers mutual cooperation to exploiting and suckering others”.

Rather than answer a reporter's question, Trump advisor Stephen Miller shot back inquires of his own—then accused the reporter of evading his questions.

In her groundbreaking book, Canada and the Blackface Atlantic: Performing Slavery, Conflict and Freedom, 1812-1897, Cheryl Thompson, professor of performance at Toronto Metropolitan University, maps the transnational flow of minstrel culture and racial ideologies, revealing how blackface performance — and the racism it reflects — was not strictly an American…