US Elections

• Green card explained: What is it and who can get one?

  Posted January 29, 2017 12:02:56 | Updated January 29, 2017 16:37:47

  Donald Trump's new immigration ban includes those who hold US green cards. Here's a quick explainer on what it means to hold one.

  Topics: immigration, us-elections, world-politics, government-and-politics, united-states

• Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says she will be watching Trump policy announcements 'very closely' Video

  Video
  ABC News

  4min 36sec

  Posted January 27, 2017 15:23:52

  Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says the current Australia-US free trade agreement works in favour of the United States, and there has been no discussion of a renegotiation.

  Topics: trade, foreign-affairs, us-elections, united-states

• Trump's first week as President: Exhausted yet?

  By Washington bureau chief Zoe Daniel

  Posted January 27, 2017 14:42:59 | Updated January 27, 2017 16:38:35

  Welcome to series two of the most watched reality TV series of our time. This week has been a whirlwind of executive orders, alternative facts and rogue tweets — and not from the President, writes Zoe Daniel.

  Topics: world-politics, us-elections, united-states

• Trump keeps insisting inauguration speech saw 'massive' crowd

  Posted January 27, 2017 13:52:22 | Updated January 27, 2017 14:04:19

  Donald Trump spends his first televised sit-down interview as US President insisting his inauguration speech saw the biggest crowd in the history of presidential inaugurations.

  Topics: world-politics, human-interest, us-elections, united-states

• I went to school with a mini 'Donald Trump' Analysis

  By David Taylor

  Posted January 27, 2017 11:48:58

  How the elevation of Donald Trump, and the early days of his presidency, has the hallmarks of an outrageous primary school election strategy.

  Topics: markets, us-elections, world-politics, australia

• Trump's border policies bring relief to patrol agents

  By North America correspondent Stephanie March

  Posted January 27, 2017 09:45:41 | Updated January 27, 2017 10:28:49

  Donald Trump's sweeping immigration orders are bringing long-awaited relief to border patrol agents on America's southern frontier, but concerns are being raised about the logistics of mass deportations.

  Topics: us-elections, immigration, community-and-society, world-politics, united-states, mexico

• Trump's proposed border wall tax 'could make avocados, TVs' more expensive

  Posted January 27, 2017 06:09:58 | Updated January 27, 2017 17:58:33

  Donald Trump's suggestion to pay for his proposed border wall with a 20 per cent tariff on Mexican exports to the US could make "things ranging from avocados to flat-screen TVs" more expensive, according to the Mexican Foreign Minister.

  Topics: world-politics, us-elections, community-and-society, immigration, united-states, mexico

• Fear and loathing in Europe as leaders grapple with Trump's 'war' Opinion

  By Richard Ogier in Munich

  Posted January 26, 2017 14:33:18 | Updated January 26, 2017 18:13:27

  Faced with Trump's 'declaration of war', some European leaders have now taken the gloves off where the US president is concerned.

  Topics: world-politics, us-elections, germany, france, united-states

• Turnbull 'confident' US refugee deal will go ahead under Trump

  By political reporter Stephanie Anderson

  Posted January 26, 2017 12:56:41

  Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says he is confident the Government's refugee resettlement deal with the US will go ahead despite concessions from senior cabinet ministers that the arrangement is not set in stone.

  Topics: us-elections, world-politics, foreign-affairs, immigration, australia, united-states

• Series 02 Episode 01: Big moves, early days Audio

  Audio
  DC Washup

  23min 5sec

  Posted January 26, 2017 11:16:00

  Out with the old and in with the new! The DC Wash Up is back and ready to break down the first days of the Trump Administration. North America Bureau Chief Zoe Daniel and producer Roscoe Whalan welcome new North America correspondent Conor Duffy to the team and are joined by a special guest, The Australian's Cameron Stewart. From trade to immigration to inauguration crowd sizes - it's been a "yuuuge" week.

  Topics: us-elections, united-states

• Morrison outlines 'Australia first' trade policy after Trump's TPP withdrawal

  By political reporter Henry Belot

  Posted January 25, 2017 09:57:21 | Updated January 25, 2017 12:44:18

  Treasurer Scott Morrison outlines an "Australia first" trade policy after US President Donald Trump signs an executive order to leave the Trans-Pacific Partnership using similar language.

  Topics: business-economics-and-finance, trade, world-politics, international-law, us-elections, united-states, australia, asia

• Trump's claims about millions of illegal voters 'based on studies': White House

  Posted January 25, 2017 08:24:14

  US President Donald Trump stands by his belief millions of people voted illegally in the US election "based on studies and evidence", the White House says.

  Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, us-elections, united-states

• Mike Pompeo announced as CIA director despite torture concerns

  Posted January 24, 2017 11:58:13 | Updated January 24, 2017 13:14:20

  The US Senate confirms Mike Pompeo to be President Donald Trump's Central Intelligence Agency director, despite some politicians' concerns he might expand surveillance or allow the use of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, which are widely considered to be torture.

  Topics: us-elections, government-and-politics, world-politics, united-states

• Trump declares his inauguration day National Day of Patriotic Devotion

  Posted January 24, 2017 11:47:00

  US President Donald Trump officially declares the day of his inauguration the National Day of Patriotic Devotion as one of his first executive orders.

  Topics: world-politics, us-elections, united-states

• US withdraws from TPP: Ciobo says hope not lost

  ABC Rural

  By Clint Jasper

  Posted January 24, 2017 10:29:05 | Updated January 24, 2017 14:03:18

  Leaders of agricultural lobby groups say they will back the Government's push for a Trans-Pacific Partnership deal without the US.

  Topics: trade, agribusiness, business-economics-and-finance, world-politics, international-law, us-elections, melbourne-3000, united-states, australia, asia

• Government to keep renewable energy targets despite Trump concerns

  By political reporter Henry Belot

  Posted January 24, 2017 09:33:05 | Updated January 24, 2017 09:56:50

  Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg says the Government has no plans to scrap its renewable energy targets, despite internal criticism and concerns US President Donald Trump may withdraw from the Paris climate change agreement.

  Topics: us-elections, climate-change, environment, world-politics, government-and-politics, australia, united-states

• Fijian activist calls on the Pacific not to stand silent in the Trump era Audio

  Audio
  Pacific Beat

  4min 51sec

  Posted January 24, 2017 07:55:00 | Updated January 24, 2017 09:53:47

  The founder of the Be The Change movement in Fiji, Roshika Deo, is warning that the Trump presidency in the United States could have a devastating impact on the Pacific islands.

  Topics: activism-and-lobbying, us-elections, pacific, fiji

• 'Great thing for the American worker': Trump cancels trade deal

  By North America correspondent Conor Duffy, wires

  Posted January 24, 2017 06:00:52 | Updated January 24, 2017 09:22:19

  Donald Trump signs an executive order formally pulling the US out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, while also ordering the US government to stop hiring more workers.

  Topics: business-economics-and-finance, trade, world-politics, international-law, us-elections, united-states, australia, asia

• Ethics lawyers suing Trump over business conflicts of interest

  Posted January 24, 2017 02:07:47 | Updated January 24, 2017 15:09:38

  A legal watchdog group files a lawsuit alleging that US President Donald Trump is violating the constitution by allowing his businesses to accept payments from foreign governments.

  Topics: us-elections, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, world-politics, united-states

• Why Trump's Supreme Court nomination matters

  By Katie Cassidy

  Posted January 23, 2017 10:37:06

  An early job for US President Donald Trump will be to nominate a new Supreme Court justice. Who he picks, along with any future nominations, could set the course of the court — and the lives of Americans — for a generation to come.

  Topics: us-elections, government-and-politics, elections, world-politics, united-states

• Trump accuses Women's March protesters of not voting

  Posted January 23, 2017 05:52:04 | Updated January 23, 2017 11:49:38

  US President Donald Trump offers a scattershot response to the sweeping protests against his new administration, undermining the public opposition and then defending demonstrators' rights a short time later.

  Topics: us-elections, government-and-politics, media, world-politics, united-states

• Trump's team says it was the biggest ever inauguration audience. It wasn't

  Posted January 22, 2017 11:50:39 | Updated January 22, 2017 18:28:21

  President Donald Trump's team says his inauguration was watched by more people than any other. It wasn't.

  Topics: us-elections, world-politics, united-states

• What drove people to join the Women's March?

  Posted January 22, 2017 11:49:35 | Updated January 22, 2017 13:11:04

  Protesters who took part in women's marches around the world on the day after US President Donald Trump's inauguration say they marched for equality, freedom, opportunity in the future and to put an end to fear.

  Topics: us-elections, womens-health, feminism, united-states

• Donald Trump's time for talk is over

  By North America correspondent Stephanie March

  Posted January 22, 2017 10:03:32 | Updated January 22, 2017 10:16:24

  Donald Trump promised to drain the swamp of political insiders during his lengthy election campaign, but now as President he must learn to work with the very politicians he rose to power railing against, writes Stephanie March.

  Topics: us-elections, world-politics, united-states

• Week in finance: Trump takes charge, inflation the focus in Australia

  By business reporter Stephen Letts

  Posted January 22, 2017 09:45:27

  Politics is the new black for big investors, with economics as a driver of market sentiment becoming somewhat passé.

  Topics: business-economics-and-finance, us-elections, trade, markets, currency, oil-and-gas, industry, gold, australia, united-states, china

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