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Defence Minister Richard Marles (left) said his US counterpart, Pete Hegseth, gave him a heads-up about the AUKUS review.

Australia quietly pays US another $800 million for AUKUS despite review

The second payment, made in the second quarter of this year, takes Australia’s contribution to the US industrial base to $1.6 billion with no guarantee AUKUS will continue.

  • Michael Koziol

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Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida, in 1997.

The secret recordings that could blow open Trump’s true relationship with Epstein

Author Michael Wolff has 100 hours of taped conversations with the disgraced financier that are now some of the most in-demand material in America.

  • Ed Cumming
A Hamas fighter in Gaza. With its coffers depleted, the group’s military wing can no longer adequately pay the salaries of its fighters.

How Gaza’s aid crisis broke Hamas and starved the Strip

As 2 million Palestinians face severe food shortages, Israel’s war has left Hamas starved of funds and looking increasingly desperate.

  • Ben Farmer, Melanie Swan and Iona Cleave
Donald Trump and his future wife, Melania, with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2000.

Ghislaine Maxwell to meet justice officials as lawmakers sent home early to dodge Epstein files vote

The planned meeting to discuss potential new evidence in the sex-trafficking saga triggered speculation that Donald Trump could pardon Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator if she were to provide details that did not implicate the US president.

  • Michael Koziol
US President Donald Trump during a ceremony for the signing of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on July 4.

Trump’s ‘big new’ visa fee could slug thousands of Australian travellers

The US government is looking to impose a “visa integrity fee” from October, with those not eligible for the ESTA visa waiver in the firing line.

  • Chris Zappone
Leave the spinning things to the kids … the iconic tea cups of the Mad Tea Party ride.

I spent a day trying Disneyland’s oldest, ‘politically corrected’ rides

Although Disneyland is known for cutting-edge technology, some of its rides are 70 years old. And some have recently been updated for politically correct reasons.

  • Julie Miller
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DeAnna and Derek Huffman in Red Square, Moscow.

Father who moved family to Russia to escape ‘woke’ America is sent to front line

Derek Huffman, who relocated his family to Russia seeking “traditional” values, thought he had joined the Russian Army in a non-combat role.

  • Kieran Kelly and Louis Brady
Students and staff at a factory in Tatarstan constructing matte black “Geran-2” drones, the Russian-built version of the Iranian-designed Shahed-136.

Inside Russia’s suicide drone factories manned by teenagers

Children as young as 15 are recruited to help increase the production of drones, a key to Vladimir Putin’s plans to relentlessly pound Ukrainian cities and drain morale.

  • Daniel Hardaker
Poster of Etan Patz

Etan’s disappearance changed childhood forever. Now this decades-old case has been reopened

When six-year-old Etan Patz vanished on his way to school in 1979, frightened parents began to raise their children differently.

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Trump’s manic 48 hours on Truth Social, posting about anything but Epstein

The US president has complained about an NFL team, shared an AI video of Barack Obama being arrested and a posted a mash-up of a snake-catching woman, motorcycle tricks and more.

  • Cleve R. Wootson Jr.

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