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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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Police are on scene at Kmart Burwood the store has been evacuated after a suspious package was found. Picture: Nicole Garmston

Inside Kmart’s secret US test store

Kmart has been quietly testing a new store design in the US under a completely different name, and it provides a big clue to Kmart’s future.

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Pete Evans. Picture: chefpeteevans/Instagram

‘Appalling’: Evans’ post angers fans

A Trump post on the controversial chef’s Instagram has enraged fans – and he didn’t even write anything. But a single emoji spoke volumes.

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Only two states record new virus cases

Only two states record new virus cases

New South Wales and Queensland have recorded no new cases of COVID-19 with just eight infections confirmed across the country today.

U.S. President Donald Trump walks past a building defaced with graffiti by protestors in Lafayette Park across from the White House after walking to St John's Church for a photo opportunity during ongoing protests over racial inequality in the wake of the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody, outside the White House in Washington, U.S., June 1, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner - RC2O0H9N4WTM

Priests ‘tear gassed’ for Trump photo op

A bishop and a rector have claimed they were assaulted by police and forced away from a church so the President could pose with a bible.

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TOPSHOT - Protesters walk past burning debris outside the Third Police Precinct on May 28, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during a protest over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, who died after a police officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes. - A police precinct in Minnesota went up in flames late on May 28 in a third day of demonstrations as the so-called Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul seethed over the shocking police killing of a handcuffed black man. The precinct, which police had abandoned, burned after a group of protesters pushed through barriers around the building, breaking windows and chanting slogans. A much larger crowd demonstrated as the building went up in flames. (Photo by Kerem Yucel / AFP)

Fears protests could lead to COVID surge

US politicians are increasingly worried the protests could be “super spreader” events which will see scores infected with coronavirus.

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Protestors in Martin Place in Sydney to bring awareness to police brutality. Picture: Jonathan Ng

US-style protests take to Sydney streets

Hundreds of people took to the streets of Sydney yesterday evening as the protests that have been sweeping the US came to Australia.

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Australian Coronavirus

A supplied image obtained on Friday, May 29, 2020, of Queensland man Nathan Turner. Authorities are continuing to investigate the mysterious case of Australia's youngest coronavirus victim, who died aged 30 in the small mining town of Blackwater. (AAP Image/Supplied) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Apology for ‘distressing’ victim backflip

The Queensland government has apologised to the family of a man who was considered Australia’s youngest COVID-19 victim but wasn’t actually infected.

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Premier Gladys Berejiklian speaks during question time at New South Wales State Parliament, Sydney. Picture: Dylan Robinson

Berejiklian’s pay freeze laws rejected

Controversial laws to restrict pay increases for public servants have been reversed by the NSW upper house this afternoon.

Nathan Turner 30 years from Blackwater

30yo COVID-19 victim didn’t have virus

A coroner’s report has revealed that the Queensland miner who was Australia’s youngest COVID-19 victim didn’t die of coronavirus at all.

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Screen Grabs from 60 Minutes interview with Josh Reynolds' ex Arabella Del Busso regarding the alleged fake pregnancies and the domestic violence allegations. Josh Reynolds speaking with reporter, Tom Steinfort. Source: 60 minutes

‘28 seconds I can’t get back’: NRL star

West Tigers’ star Josh Reynolds and his one-time girlfriend have given very different accounts of their tumultuous relationship.

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