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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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Celebrity Deaths

Huge twist in Matthew Perry death

Huge twist in Matthew Perry’s death

Police have charged five people including two doctors and the “ketamine queen of LA” in relation to the Friends star’s hot tub death.

Health Problems

(FILES) This undated image obtained from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in Bethesda, Maryland, shows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox particles (green) found within an infected cell (pink and purple), cultured in the laboratory. The World Health Organization on May 11, 2023, has declared that mpox no longer constitutes a global health emergency , almost exactly a year after the disease formerly known as monkeypox started spreading globally. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the decision was prompted by falling case numbers worldwide, but emphasised that the disease remains a threat, particularly in areas of Africa where it has long been present. (Photo by Handout / National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

Virus emergency worsens, new detection

A dangerous and potentially deadly strain of mpox has now broken out of Africa to Europe with fears it could spread globally.

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‘Ruthless’: Joe Biden’s fury revealed

White House insiders have revealed Joe Biden’s continued anger against his closest allies who turned against him to install Kamala Harris.

The girl was found dead inside her home by a relative. (9News)

Woman charged: 10yo girl dead, throat cut

A 46-year old woman has been charged with murder after a girl, 10, was found dead with her throat slashed at a Gold Coast home.

Queensland and NSW set to be deluged with wet weather. Picture: BOM.

‘Heaviest August rain in a decade’ set to hit

A weather system bringing hundreds of millimetres of rain is punishing millions on Australia’s east coast with Wednesday set to be a washout.

Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during an election campaign rally in Bozeman, Montana, on August 9, 2024. (Photo by Natalie BEHRING / AFP)

‘Just stop’: Republicans explode at Trump

Supporters of Donald Trump within his own party are at their wit’s end as the presidential candidate again goes wildly off-message.

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TOPSHOT - Australia's Rachael Gunn, known as Raygun competes in the Women's Breaking dance Round robin of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at La Concorde in Paris, on August 9, 2024. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)

Wild Raygun accusation rocks Australia

A senior Australian sports official has blasted Rachael Gunn’s Olympic break dancing as “disrespectful” and said “Aussies aren’t buying the Kool-aid”.

UpdatedTravel Incidents

Passenger jet crashes in Brazil from airline Voepass

‘Graveyard spin’: Shocking way plane crashed

A plane belonging to a Brazilian airline has crashed into the suburbs close to a major city killing all on board.

Travel Incidents

Woman dead after freak accident at Chicago O'Hare airport

Woman dead after baggage claim horror

A woman has died at one of the world’s busiest airports when she became trapped in the carousel at the baggage claims area.

Horror drowning at crossfit event. Picture: Twitter.

Athlete dies on livestream, no one notices

A CrossFit swimmer has drowned in the middle of race with other swimmers all around him while being recorded on a livestream.

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