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Benedict BrookUS correspondent

Benedict is an award-winning journalist and news.com.au’s US Correspondent, based in New York. He moved to Australia in 2006 and worked in corporate communications and journalism, becoming assistant editor of LGBTI publication the Star Observer before joining news.com.au in 2015. He writes on a range of topics from weather to retail and infrastructure. Benedict has won a Kennedy Award for environmental reporting and was nominated for another, for breaking news, in 2020. He has been nominated twice for an ACON Honour Award for his writing on the LGBTI community.

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Bombshell Musk move before plane crash

Elon Musk made a massive demand of the aviation safety authority — leading to a major change just days before Wednesday’s disaster.

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1000 air traffic controllers ‘denied jobs’

Bombshell claims about air traffic controllers have emerged after the horror crash between a plane and a helicopter this week.

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Victims of the American Airlines plane crash.

‘Nightmare’: Skating sisters and teens killed in crash

Young skating sisters and a “truly amazing” mum of two have been identified as one of 60 passengers killed in the horror collision.

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US President Donald Trump speaks about the mid-air crash between American Airlines flight 5342 and a military helicopter in Washington, in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Divers pulled bodies from the icy waters of Washington's Potomac river Thursday after a US military helicopter collided midair with a passenger plane carrying 64 people, with officials saying there were likely no survivors. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)

‘Going swimming’: Trump’s joke after crash

US President Donald Trump has made a controversial joke following the deadly air crash in DC.

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TRAGIC FINAL POST: Rising star's eerie upload moments before crash

16yo’s chilling final post before DC crash

16-year-old ice skating hopeful Spencer Lane shared a photo from inside the plane just hours before it collided with a Black Hawk helicopter.

Republicans at the inauguration in Washington DC don't like Donald Trump's ideas to annex or buy Greenland and Canada. Picture: Benedict Brook

‘Ridiculous’: Trump plan even MAGA hates

Diehard Trump supporters are cheering loudly for him but there’s one issue he keeps bringing up that they’re just not that into.

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‘Kill millions’: Shock claim about Trump pick

One of Donald Trump’s most controversial choices for his cabinet has denied he is an anti-vaxxer – but he’s been labelled a “quack” anyway.

Google to rename Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America following Trump move

Google’s huge call after Trump demand

Google was under no obligation but its decided to fall in line with a contentious Donald Trump call all the same.

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‘Take the p***’: Megastar’s wild Aussie role

A musical legend stars in a new Australian advert which goes hard in poking fun at one of the world’s most famous singers.

US Border Patrol and Mexican cartel members trade gunfire at border

‘Shots fired’: Shock US border escalation

Alleged Mexican cartel members reportedly fired on US border agents as they tried to cross the frontier amid Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

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