👤 Michael Koziol

2026-09-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

TV networks refuse to cover Trump in solidarity with CNN following ban

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2026-09-18 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

Trump says he is banning CNN and other news outlets from the White House

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2026-09-23 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

Iranian president vows not to surrender in defiant, historic UN speech

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2026-10-17 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

Why Trump’s new press secretary had to go after just five days

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2026-10-07 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Crime & Law

Lawyers reveal Christa Pike’s first words after she woke from botched execution

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2026-09-25 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Economy/Business

The ‘striking’ difference in how Trump and Xi used their invisible summit

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2026-09-05 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 But reporters who have been at Arthur Ashe Stadium all week agreed the crowd was much better behaved at Friday night’s blockbuster starring Venus and Serena Williams. assertive

2026-09-07 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 “I would not be here if I did not have my Kalshi account,” the 23-year-old New Yorker says, naming the booming prediction market company that has just inked a multi-year deal with the US Tennis Association. “I just love being able to watch live and watch my prediction. assertive

2026-09-14 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Umar Kremlev, president of the International Boxing Association, sponsored and attended some of the festivities that took place on two ultra-exclusive private islands in May when Donald Trump Jr married Bettina Anderson. assertive

2026-09-15 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 “I could shit a better president,” one cap says. assertive

2026-09-19 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Denmark, the United States and Greenland are expected to sign an agreement that will allow the US to increase its military presence in the Danish territory and ban adversaries such as Russia and China from building bases or making sensitive investments there. assertive

2026-09-19 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 What she didn’t know then was that this facility by Vantage Data Centres would not be connected to the electricity grid, and would be powered by its own gas turbines, at least for now. assertive

2026-09-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Ordinarily, the storied cultural institution would have been preparing for an evening of performances: an opera, perhaps, or musical theatre. assertive

2026-09-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The major American television networks will refuse to cover daily press events with US President Donald Trump after he banned one of them, CNN, and barred its reporters from the White House. assertive

2026-09-22 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 But say what you will, access to Trump was unparalleled. assertive

2026-09-22 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Qantas has announced its direct flights to New York will begin from Sydney in mid-2028, connecting Australia and the east coast of the US with non-stop air travel for the first time. assertive

2026-09-23 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Last Wednesday morning, on the north lawn of the White House, the United States Marine Band rehearsed for the elaborate welcome they will bestow upon Xi Jinping when he meets Donald Trump on Thursday. assertive

2026-09-23 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian declared his country would not be cowed into surrender in a defiant address to the United Nations that came a day after US President Donald Trump used the same stage to renew his threat to “annihilate” Iran. assertive

2026-09-24 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Albanese was seated beside the Atlantic Council’s chairman, John Rogers, who used his opening address to presage some of the points the Australian PM would make in his speech about the changing world order. assertive

2026-09-24 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 After all, Trump was wowed by the grandeur of Beijing when he visited in May – particularly by the capacious Great Hall of the People, and the military display Xi conjured. assertive

2026-09-25 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Altman remained silent and did not answer four times when asked by this masthead what he would say to Australians about the breach, whether he should apologise or why it took months for OpenAI to detect and report it to the Australian government. assertive

2026-09-25 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Having already met in Beijing in May, Trump and Xi are due to see each other again at the APEC summit in Shenzhen in November, and at the G20 in Miami before Christmas. assertive

2026-09-28 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Whatever ill will might exist between CNN and the Trump administration – and there is plenty – it was cast aside at the Australian embassy on Sunday (Washington time) for the annual Kangaroo Cup tennis tournament. assertive

2026-09-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Trade Minister Don Farrell will seek greater market access for Australian wines and spirits in Canada at a G20 summit this week, in a push to capitalise on the trade war between US President Donald Trump and his North American neighbour. assertive

2026-09-30 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The trial of three Mexican men accused of killing Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson in an alleged robbery gone wrong is entering its final stages, though a verdict may not be reached until next week. assertive

2026-09-30 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 “If there is any possibility of the verdict being delivered before then – even if the sentencing occurs at a later date, we would be extraordinarily grateful,” she said as her voice quivered. assertive

2026-10-01 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The timing was significant because the game took place the day after Fani Willis – then the district attorney in Fulton County, Georgia – admitted to an intimate relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade. assertive

2026-10-02 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 A lone court officer operates an audiovisual link and the air-conditioner, which at one point needed to be shut off so that people could hear the judge. assertive

2026-10-02 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 This week Donald Trump summoned reporters to the Oval Office to announce that a $US15 billion ($22 billion) steel plant would be built in the midwestern state of Iowa. assertive

2026-10-06 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Donald Trump says he will no longer spend taxpayers’ money on political advertising for the midterm elections, after a bipartisan backlash to the use of public funds for the president’s self-promotion. assertive

2026-10-06 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The US will build a new shipyard to make components for the Virginia-class submarine – the kind Australia is due to acquire under AUKUS – in a bid to ramp up lagging production of the nuclear-powered boats. assertive

2026-10-07 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The case has shocked the world and raised significant questions about the death penalty in the US – along with uncertainty about whether the state of Tennessee will try to execute her again. A court on Wednesday (US time) ordered the state to preserve and maintain all medical equipment, records and communications relating to the failed execution – with further decisions to come about Pike’s access to a tablet, and whether she should be unshackled from the bed. Speaking to reporters after the court hearing, Spivey revealed Pike had been unresponsive and presumed brain-dead the night before she suddenly woke up and began talking. assertive

2026-10-09 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Martin Robinson held his wife Debra as she told the court on the final day of the murder trial that “our lives will never be the same without them, but our love for them will never fade”. assertive

2026-10-10 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The US president on Friday struck a deal to buy Russian diesel, upending years of sanctions against Moscow, though it was not evident that Vladimir Putin could fulfil his end of the deal, given he is struggling to fuel his own economy. assertive

2026-10-12 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 I will not be silenced.” assertive

2026-10-14 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Asked for one thing she would do in office that might be unpopular with some voters, she said: “Firing all Republicans.” assertive

2026-10-16 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 These are the voters – past supporters who have drifted or may not bother voting this year – whom Trump wants to reach with his whistle-stop campaign tour. assertive

2026-10-17 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Zacharia may have technically been in the job five days, but she really only lasted 15 minutes. assertive

2026-10-17 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 “Any action to restrict lamb meat imports would only increase costs for US consumers, reduce product availability and risk reversing the steady growth in US demand for lamb to the detriment of the US industry.” Moriarty said Australia’s supply of high-quality lamb actually helped develop the US sheep industry, and contributed to flock productivity through genetics partnerships, technology transfer and pest research. assertive

2026-10-17 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 We will forever carry their memory in our hearts … assertive

2026-10-19 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 It also comes just two weeks before the midterm elections in which polls suggest Trump’s Republican Party will lose control of the House of Representatives and possibly the Senate, amid concerns the president is not focused on bread and butter matters for Americans. assertive

2026-10-19 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The Australian Defence Force is participating in war games this week that simulate a regional conflict with China and how US submarines, as well as those to be acquired under AUKUS, would be utilised. assertive