Nick O Malley on Joe Biden

'We don't want you, nobody wants you!' US immigration debate turns ugly

Nick O'Malley When the protesters saw the buses carrying the children heading towards them, they began to chant and yell wave their flags and homemade banners. One woman was particularly insistent.

Iraq crisis: 8 things Obama can do

Crisis talks: Barack Obama has signalled that America's response will not be immediate.

Nick O'Malley Americans don't want their president to put boots back on the ground, so what are Obama's options in Iraq?

Obama praises Australia's gun control, brings country into US gun debate

Barack Obama

Nick O'Malley Even as police were still on the scene of yet another American school shooting – the 74th since the massacre of primary school children in Newtown – President Barack Obama praised...

Ukraine PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk meets Obama at White House

Ukraine Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk at the White House.

Nick O'Malley Sitting in the Oval office with Ukraine's interim Prime Minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, US President Barack Obama has again declared the United State's support for Ukraine, telling reporters, ''We will...

Obamacare deadline: 7.1 million sign up for health insurance

US President Barack Obama with Vice-President Joe Biden.

Nick O'Malley More than 7 million people signed up for health insurance under a controversial American healthcare law before a key deadline, prompting a celebratory and unabashedly political speech by the US...

Beijing tactic makes waves in disputed sea

Japan Coast Guard vessel PS206 Houou.

Philip Wen Beijing and Nick O'Malley When China marked out an expansive swath of airspace above the East China Sea and effectively claimed it as under its control, it was seen as an abrupt escalation of an already tense territorial...

Americans' right to vote under siege


Nick O'Malley WASHINGTON: Viviette Applewhite once marched in Georgia with Dr Martin Luther King in support of her civil rights and in 1960 she voted for the first time, helping to elect Jack Kennedy.

Civil rights groups tackle 'suppressive' voter ID laws

US voter Viviette Applewhite.

Nick O'Malley According to a study by New York University's Brennan Justice Centre released last week, 14 Republican-controlled states have introduced laws making it harder for 5 million voters to cast ballots.

Romney demands answers over alleged security leaks

Mitt Romney

Nick O'Malley Mitt Romney has accused Barack Obama's White House of leaking national security secrets in order to bolster the President's reputation in a major foreign affairs speech hours before he was to depart...

Romney attacks Obama on leaks


Nick O'malley Presumptive presidential candidate says leaker must be 'exposed, dismissed, and punished'.

Michelle Obama practises what she'll preach on hubby's big day

Nick O'Malley, Charlotte, North Carolina Michelle Obama did a walk-through of the stage where she will deliver her crucial speech today, headlining the first day of the Democratic National Convention - Barack Obama's unofficial campaign...

Blast from the past hails Obama

Barack Obama and Bill Clinton

Nick O'malley United States Correspondent Charlotte, North Carolina BILL Clinton made it look easy. The old pro, the most popular politician in the land, wandered onto the stage and amiably acknowledged an ear-splitting explosion of love.

Love still all around as Clinton bats for Obama

Bill Clinton

Nick O'Malley CHARLOTTE, North Carolina: Bill Clinton made it look easy. The old pro, the most popular politician in the land, wandered onto the stage and amiably acknowledged an ear-splitting explosion of love.

Obama spells it out for second term


Nick O'Malley President Barack Obama said voters face a choice between two ''fundamentally different visions'' for America and vowed to continue his fight to ''restore the values that built the largest middle...

Mesmerising speeches, and still deadlock

Nick O'Malley AT A BRIEFING for the foreign media in Tampa last week the Republican lobbyist Grover Norquist sounded a little cranky when asked why his party could not bring itself to find a compromise over debt...

Rough and tumble debate ends in a draw


Nick O'Malley Joe Biden won't have to live with Barack Obama's regret that he was "too polite" after the vice-president's tussle with the Republican candidate, Paul Ryan.

Duelling gibes but Biden and Ryan debate deemed a draw


Nick O'Malley WASHINGTON: The Vice-President, Joe Biden, and candidate Paul Ryan fought each other to a standstill in a brittle and passionate debate.

Spend and bend as poll goes down to the wire

'Debates are about appearing presidential' (Thumbnail)

Nick O'Malley With polls tied in the dying days of the US election, analysts are tracking the movements of the contenders, trying to get a true sense of the two campaigns' end strategy.

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Congress sits on its hands as the fiscal cliff looms

US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
