Nick O'malley

Nick O'Malley is the United States correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

The families of victims grieve near Sandy Hook Elementary School, where a gunman opened fire on school children and staff in Newtown, Connecticut.

Connecticut shooting leaves 20 children dead

Nick O'Malley As many as 28 people were killed in a shooting at a primary school in Newtown, Connecticut, which would be the deadliest massacre in the U.S. since the 2007 rampage at Virginia Tech university.

Kerry for State post as Rice bows out

Nick O'Malley WASHINGTON: The US ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, has withdrawn her name from consideration for the appointment of secretary of state by the President, Barack Obama, making Senator...

Rice withdraws under Republican pressure

Nick O'Malley The US ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, has withdrawn her name from consideration to be appointed secretary of state by the President, Barack Obama, making Senator John Kerry an even...

Playing chicken on edge of a fiscal cliff

Nick O'Malley WASHINGTON: American pundits were reduced to car crash metaphors this week as the fiscal cliff loomed larger.

Private affair, public downfall

Nick O'Malley In the fever swamps online, and on Fox News, the story is that David Petraeus was forced out of his post as CIA director by the White House in order to prevent his testimony before a Senate committee...

Hold fire on Petraeus, Obama warns

Nick O'Malley Barack Obama says he has seen no evidence of any breach of national security as a result of the General Petraeus affair.

The ripple effect will make this an affair to remember

Nick O'Malley It should be the simplest story in the world; a powerful man in a sensitive job is forced to resign due to an illicit affair.

Petraeus shockwaves jeopardise more top jobs

Nick O'Malley The sex scandal that destroyed the career of CIA director David Petraeus continues to reverberate in Washington.

Timeline: the unfolding of the Petraeus affair scandal

Nick O'Malley Spring 2006 — Paula Broadwell meets Petraeus at Harvard University, where she is a graduate student.

Obama's army wins the trench warfare

Nick O'Malley From Barack Obama's campaign headquarters in Chicago you can look out over Grant Park, down Lake Shore Drive (''now we're tripping on LSD'', taxi drivers like to say as they pull onto Lake Shore) to...

Victory for technology

Nick O'Malley, Chicago From Barack Obama's campaign headquarters in Chicago you can look out over Grant Park, down Lake Shore Drive to the McCormick Centre, where the President claimed his victory early on Wednesday...

States give OK to gay unions

Nick O'Malley, Chicago Not only did the conservative movement fail to win either the White House or the Senate on Tuesday night in America, voters in state referendums across the country rejected some of its key positions,...

After the battle, it's back to the brink

Nick O'Malley, Chicago, Illinois US President Obama and Congress already drawing lines in sand on fiscal cliff negotiations.

Obama's focus shifts to 'fiscal cliff'

Nick O'Malley Less than 15 hours after his victory speech in Chicago, Barack Obama had returned to the White House, and Republican House Majority leader John Boehner had begun to position the GOP for the pending...

Gay marriage push heaps woe on Republicans

Nick O'Malley Not only did the conservative movement fail to win either the White House or the Senate on Tuesday night in America, voters in state referendums across the country rejected some of its key positions,...

Obama triumphs through disciplined and ruthless campaign

Nick O'Malley Barack Obama has won re-election, stitching together a coalition among groups that the Republican Party failed to target.

Obama reaches out to nation

Nick O'Malley, United States Correspondent in Illinois Chicago, Illinois: Barack Obama has won his re-election, stitching together a coalition among groups that the Republican Party failed to appeal to women, young voters, Hispanics, gays and even...

Lawyers at 10 paces as US election goes down to the wire

Nick O'Malley AFTER a campaign that has cost an estimated $2 billion and deluged the nation with a million television ads, Americans are facing the possibility of an election result so close it will trigger...