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Vanessa is News Corp Australia’s US Correspondent. The Walkley award-winning journalist has covered court, crime, politics and business for a number of Australian mastheads. She was previously based in Brisbane with The Courier-Mail as Chief of Staff, and prior to that was the paper’s Chief Court Reporter.

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Judge orders war chat messages be saved after Trump spray

The federal judge overseeing the lawsuit over the White House Signal chat scandal has ordered the messages be preserved after Donald Trump called him “disgraceful”. Follow updates.

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Anna Maree Blight was killed in a Bali boating accident in March 2025

‘Forever loved’: Bali boat victim’s family speaks out

The family of an Australian woman who lost her life in a boating accident in Bali have broken their silence as the island paradise reels following the tragedy.

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Chilling similarities between the properties of Queensland’s Wieambilla cop killers and an Arizona man linked to the murders including home-made sniper hides and weapons stores have been exposed for the first time. A sign outside Donald Day's Arizona property.. CREDIT - Arizona District Court exhibits.

Photos show chilling find at US Wieambilla accused’s house

Prosecutors fighting to allow Australian police to give evidence in the upcoming trial of Donald Day, who is linked to the Wieambilla massacre, say the cases have chilling similarities.

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Peter Gerald Scully of Australia walks in handcuffs as he arrives at Cagayan de Oro city hall in southern Philippines on Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Scully and his Filipino girlfriend Carme Ann Alvarez have pleaded not guilty to charges of raping and trafficking two girls aged 9 and 12 in a southern Philippine city. Scully is also under investigation in the death of a girl whose remains were found inside his house in another southern province. (AP Photo)

Reason Aussie pedo gave to escape jail

An Australian man labelled the “world’s worst pedophile” will die behind bars after a Philippines court rejected his argument as to why he should be allowed to go free. Warning: graphic.

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bali boat tragedy aussies dead and unjured

Melb woman dies in Bali boat tragedy; Aussie couple injured

A snorkelling trip to an idyllic island off Bali has ended in tragedy after an Australian woman celebrating her birthday died and two other Aussies were injured when their boat capsized.

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FILE - In this April 30, 1963 file photo, President John F. Kennedy listens while Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg speaks outside the White House in Washington. National Park Rangers will lay a wreath outside Kennedy's childhood home on Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017, in Brookline Mass., 54 years to the day after he was assassinated in Dallas. The ceremony marks a symbolic end to a year of events marking the 100th anniversary of JFK's birth. (AP Photo/William J. Smith, File)

Bombshells we discovered in the JFK files

Thousands of pages of previously classified documents on the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy have been released, but a burning question still remains unanswered.

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JFK assassination 50th anniversary. 22 November 1963President and Mrs. Kennedy arrive at Love Field in Dallas, TX, 22 November 1963. Please credit: Cecil Stoughton/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.Scanned from original 2 1/4

CIA ‘responsible’ for JFK assassination

Thousands of pages of previously classified documents relating to the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy have revealed a shock claim.

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Daniel Menelaou, a former international megachurch youth pastor has been arrested in the US for child abuse images. Picture: Fulton County Sheriff’s Office

Ex-youth pastor arrested over child abuse videos gets bail

A former Adelaide youth pastor, accused of possessing child abuse videos while working for a megachurch in the US, has been granted bail.

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(COMBO) This combination of files pictures created on March 18, 2025 shows US President Donald Trump on the phone in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on June 27, 2017 and a handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on February 12, 2025, showing Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky speaking during a phone call with the US president while sitting at his office in Kyiv, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelensky warned on March 20, 2025 against heeding a Kremlin call to halt military aid for his country and announced he would speak with US President Donald Trump later within hours. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM and Handout / various sources / AFP) / XGTY / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Trump proposes US ownership of Ukraine’s nuke plants

In their first known talk since their White House stoush, Donald Trump spoke to Volodymyr Zelensky on aligning the “requests and needs” of Russia and Ukraine.

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Confirmed and identity of American man - Donald Day. An American man associated with Stacey and Gareth Train. Going by the name Geronimo’s Bones on YouTube. Picture: YouTube

New twist in trial of man linked to Wieambilla massacre

Lawyers for a US man arrested in connection with the Wieambilla massacre have made a bid to stop Queensland police officers testifying in his trial. See why.

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