Brad Ryan is a digital journalist/producer for the ABC's North America bureau in Washington DC. Previously, he has worked as digital editor for ABC News Melbourne and the Specialist Reporting Team, and as a newspaper, radio, TV and online reporter in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Far North Queensland.
Donald Trump desperately wants to retain a Republican majority in the US Senate. He is banking on the success of a senator whose campaign tactics include talking up her differences with the president.
Donald Trump's promise to order the mass deportation of unauthorised migrants helped him win the US's presidential election in 2024.
The Trump administration's immigration crackdown was a vote winner in the 2024 presidential election, but is proving more divisive ahead of the midterms.
A political debate in Maine offered multiple reminders of times when Donald Trump has dismissed Americans' concerns as either conspiracy theories or stupidity.
Three men are found guilty of killing Jake and Callum Robinson and their friend Carter Rhoad while they were camping in Mexico in 2024.
Kathy Hochul says the woman who accused a group of Cornell University students of rape has been "failed" at "every turn" by authorities.
Trade Minister Don Farrell asks the Trump administration to consider sparing Australian sheep farmers from future tariffs in exchange for Australian investment in America's lamb industry.
A White House meeting of leaders in artificial intelligence follows a string of hacking incidents involving rogue AI and dire warnings about risks of catastrophe from within the industry.
The prime minister tells the UN that climate change and AI are key challenges demanding urgent global cooperation, just two days after Donald Trump told the same forum that both concerns were a "hoax".
Speaking to scores of empty chairs after a mass walkout, Benjamin Netanyahu uses his UN speech to lavish praise on Donald Trump, savage Zohran Mamdani and predict Iran's population will topple its ruling regime.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas calls on the US to stop blocking him from attending the UN, in a video message beamed into the annual summit a day after Iran's president was allowed to address it in person.
Key players in some of the world's big wars were among speakers at the UN on the second day of its annual summit, where AI was also high on the agenda.
Iran's president delivers an unyielding speech at the UN, describing his country as a victim of terrorism and declaring it will never surrender to US and Israeli aggression.
At the UN summit, on its sidelines and on social media, world leaders collaborated and clashed against a backdrop of global conflict and tech-driven threats.
US President Donald Trump uses a speech at the UN to portray "American power" as the solution to the world's problems, defending his ongoing war with Iran and declaring he now has to decide whether to "annihilate" the Islamic Republic.
The three American media outlets banned from the White House take legal action against US President Donald Trump, accusing him of a "direct assault" on free speech rights.
Cable networks CNN and MS NOW and newsletter publisher Politico have been banned from the White House, effective immediately, with more to follow, the US President says.
Five years after the pact between Australia, the US, and the UK was announced, three of its key architects assess its progress toward its goals, including arming Australia with nuclear-powered submarines to deter Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific.
Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon and left-wing senator Bernie Sanders are among political adversaries pushing for regulation of AI, but Donald Trump continues to baulk at the calls for action.
As pressure builds in Washington for action on AI following a flurry of doomsday warnings, Donald Trump says there is a "sick conspiracy" against the technology.
Donald Trump's approval rating is at dire lows. But he has deliberately tied his party's fortunes to his own popularity, and "Trump-a-palooza" showed his tactics are not changing.
US Vice-President JD Vance gives a keynote address at the Republicans' midterm conventions, in what will inevitably be seen as an early pitch to become Donald Trump's successor.
The US President did not say how the money would be paid or where it would come from, but said it would be called the "Trump dividend".
Donald Trump's approval rating continues to plumb historic lows ahead of the Republican Party's national convention, but the US president still believes his brand can boost close-race candidates who will be "showcased" on stage.
Six months into a war originally sold as a "short-term excursion", experts say the United States and Iran are in a stalemate where prospects for peace are "bleak", but not impossible.
