Investors fear Trump’s tariffs could bring a recession if left unaltered because they could freeze global trade.

Tech stocks,banks bolster ASX despite higher-than-expected inflation

The Australian sharemarket has trimmed some of its early gains after the inflation data,but is still up for a fifth consecutive day.

  • Gemma Grant

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China’s President Xi Jinping can beat Donald Trump at his own game.

It’s chess,not checkers:China can play the long game against Trump

Donald Trump thinks trade is a zero-sum game. Xi Jinping appears happy to wait for the trade war to backfire on the US president.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Donald Trump 100 days explainer.

Order 142 and counting:How Trump has used his pen to change America in 100 days

It is the most consequential start of a term of any American presidency,with Donald Trump taking direct aim at law,media,public health and culture.

Amber Wheeler colours client Whitney Barnes’ hair in her salon,Steel Magnolia,in the Kentucky town of Magnolia.

The world is consumed by Trump’s chaos. In MAGA heartland,they’ve barely noticed

Polls show the president has lost his sheen. But from “Hog’s Haven” to a hair salon in rural Kentucky,Americans who voted for Donald Trump still think he’s their best chance.

  • Michael Koziol

After 100 days of Trump,the resistance is building

Trump has declared a “golden age” of America. But it’s rapidly turning to brass.

  • Bruce Wolpe
In Florida last week,nearly 800 immigrants were arrested in an operation involving US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.

Boy,4,with cancer among American children deported with mothers,lawyers say

US border tsar Tom Homan’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested 800 immigrants in Florida last week.

  • Rachel Nostrant
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US President Donald Trump is standing by his embattled Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Trump’s macho crew,it turns out,is a vicious little sewing circle

One hundred days into Trump’s second term,cracks are appearing in the testosterone-filled White House manosphere.

  • Maureen Dowd
Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest and Caroline Kennedy attend the Time 100 Gala.

Twiggy branches out with VIP plus-one at society shindig

When Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest stepped out at the Time 100 Most Influential People Gala,it wasn’t his clean-energy credentials that drew attention.

  • Stephen Brook
Wall Street’s benchmark index entered a correction this week as fears over Donald Trump’s trade war escalated.

Money is flowing out of Wall Street,so where is it going?

As Donald Trump’s tariff wars throw US markets into a pit of uncertainty,the Australian sharemarket is shaping up as a safe haven.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey
FBI director Kash Patel posts an image on X of what he says is Judge Hannah Dugan being arrested.

FBI arrests US judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities

Hannah Dugan’s arrest escalates a clash between the Trump administration and the judiciary over the US president’s sweeping immigration crackdown.

  • Alanna Durkin Richer,Devi Shastri andCorey Williams