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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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California’s Governor has torn into Donald Trump over an wild picture of some of the National Guard troops deployed to the riots. @GavinNewsom

Trump blasted over astonishing pic

California’s Governor has torn into Donald Trump over a wild picture of some of the National Guard troops deployed to the riots.

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‘Hoped I’d never see’: Arrest threat rocks US

The spat between Donald Trump and California’s Governor keeps escalating, with the President now suggesting his counterpart should be arrested.

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‘Enemy no 1’: Americans in ‘fear’ of Trump

For a group of Americans, everything has changed in just six months and now they say they are “terrified” of Donald Trump’s next move.

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has warned NATO allies they could not depend solely on Washington for defence.

‘Can’t be reliance’: NATO told to get ready, fast

A nation has been told it must urgently expand its army, as ambiguous warnings from the US continue to send a ripple through Europe.

Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb. Picture: Security Service of Ukraine

Putin’s chilling warning after drone attack

Vladimir Putin has warned Donald Trump he “will have to respond” to Ukraine’s drone strike on some if its most important bomber bases.

Sean Combs continues to give evidence at his trial in New York

‘I’m the devil’: Diddy’s chilling comment

Sean Combs made a chilling threat to a friend of his ex, its claimed, and at one point allegedly damaged her off a balcony 17 stories up.

‘No more Big Macs’: Wild Macca’s concept fails

It was McDonald’s bold experiment to appeal to a new customer bored with Big Macs – but the concept has officially failed.

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Beijing has furiously responded to comments made by Marco Rubio today, describing the US Secretary of State's stance on Tiananmen Square as an

China fury at Tiananmen Square comment

China has furiously responded to comments made by the US Secretary of State today, decrying them as an “attack” on the government.

A member of the public had to be dragged out of the Sean Combs trial on Tuesday . Picture: Reuters

Diddy trial descends into courtroom chaos

A member of the public had to be removed from court after she went on a profane rant as jurors heard Sean Combs paid cash to bury an assault video.

This video grab taken from a handout footage released by the Ukrainian Security Service on June 3, 2025, allegedly shows the explosion of the Kerch Bridge connecting Crimea with Russia following a special operation carried out by the Ukrainian Security Service, amid the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict. (Photo by Handout / UKRAINIAN SECURITY SERVICE / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Ukraine scores another brutal Putin blow

In another humiliation for Vladimir Putin, Ukraine has detonated a bomb on a key bridge which is one of Moscow’s flagship projects.

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