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For QAnon faithful, Donald Trump s presidency was hailed as part of a grand plan that would expose evil within the US government and restore America.
But on Thursday morning (AEDT), Mr Trump s single term as president will come to an end as Joe Biden is sworn in as his successor.
In some ways, that puts the central theory of this baseless and malleable web of conspiracies - that the outgoing president has spent years leading a mission to bring a deep state group of paedophiles, including top Democrats and Hollywood elites, to justice - to bed.
But experts say this doesn t necessarily mark the end of a movement that now has support within the Republican Party, leaving it, the incoming Biden administration, and even Australia, with much to consider.
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Biden’s Senate majority doesn’t just supercharge US climate action, it blazes a trail for Australia
Last week, somewhat overshadowed by the events in Washington, the Democrats took control of the US Senate. The Democrats now hold a small majority in both the House and the Senate until 2022, giving President-elect Joe Biden a better chance of getting climate actions through Congress.
Biden’s key nominees to environment and climate positions in his administration must be approved by the Senate, and the Democrat majority provides a clearer path for this.
Now we have a better picture of the climate-engaged Biden administration, the question for Australia is how the changes will affect our domestic climate politics.
Could Donald Trump be barred from running for president in 2024? Here s how it could play out
By Peta Fuller with wires
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Donald Trump has been impeached again but, as we know from the first time around, that alone can t stop him from running for office.
And while a trial still has to play out in the Senate (where the Democrats would need 17 Republican votes to convict Trump), there s another avenue that could bar the President from future office.
East Asia is a nuclear powder keg.
Here s What You Need to Remember: Isolating Japan from American support and discouraging Japan from developing its own nuclear deterrent, then, would be necessary precursors to any Russo-Chinese move against the island state. All the more reason to keep the U.S.-Japanese alliance sound. Keep transpacific ties strong and nuclear deterrence may hold.
Marauding Polish troops were culpable for fourteen military incidents along the Polish-German frontier eighty years ago. The reluctant German government felt compelled to order the army to respond and World War II was on. Or at least that’s what Adolf Hitler would have you believe. That day the Nazi dictator informed the Reichstag, or parliament, that he had “resolved to speak to Poland in the same language” that Poland had used armed force for months before the onset of fighting. “This night,” Hitler claimed, “Polish regular soldiers fired on our territory. Since 5:45 A.M. we have been ret