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Sam ClenchEurope correspondent

Sam covers politics, with the occasional foray into entertainment news. He previously worked in the Canberra press gallery and as news.com.au’s US correspondent. Sam led our coverage of the 2016 and 2020 US elections and hit the campaign trail for the Australian federal elections in 2019 and 2022 – but you’re probably more likely to recognize him as our resident Game of Thrones nerd.

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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 24: Tesla CEO Elon Musk leaves the Phillip Burton Federal Building on January 24, 2023 in San Francisco, California. Musk testified at a trial regarding a lawsuit that has investors suing Tesla and Musk over his August 2018 tweets saying he was taking Tesla private with funding that he had secured. The tweet was found to be false and cost shareholders billions of dollars when Tesla's stock price began to fluctuate wildly allegedly based on the tweet. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by JUSTIN SULLIVAN / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

‘Unheard of’: Humiliating Musk revelation

Elon Musk was so agitated after one of his tweets was shown up this week that he made Twitter impose an extraordinary change.

Royals

Playful Prince Harry & Friends At The Beaufort Polo Club, Near Tetbury, Gloucestershire. (Photo by Antony Jones/UK Press via Getty Images)

‘Kept it secret’: Harry’s ’older woman’ speaks

The “older” woman who took Prince Harry’s virginity has explained why she decided to go public, placing the blame squarely on him.

UpdatedRoyals

‘How stupid can you be?’: Harry’s blunder. Picture: 60 minutes,

Harry accused of war crimes by the Taliban

Prince Harry has been accused of committing war crimes by a senior Taliban leader after the royal admitted killing 25 insurgents while fighting in Afghanistan.

UpdatedTravel Incidents

Chilling moment two choppers collide

Chilling footage has emerged of the moment two helicopters collided into one another on the Gold Coast above a packed theme park.

QLD

Photo at the scene of the triple fatal car crash at Bonogin Road. Family member Claudine Snow (in white) was at there.1 January 2023 Bonogin Picture by Richard Gosling

Crash victim’s haunting final voicemail

A family member of the three people killed in a horrific car crash on Friday has revealed the haunting last words she heard from her mother.

Celebrity Life

Will Smith has spoken out again about the infamous slap. Picture: AFP/Comedy Central

‘Now I’m crying’: Will Smith surfaces

Will Smith has emerged from hiding, making his biggest TV appearance since slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars.

UpdatedTelevision

Ally Langdon and Sarah Abo both have big new gigs. Picture: Channel 9

Ally Langdon leaving Today for coveted gig

Channel 9 has announced two major hosting changes, with Ally Langdon and Sarah Abo both scoring important new jobs at the network.

UpdatedTelevision

Lisa Wilkinson announcing her departure from The Project. Picture: Ten

Project exodus: ‘There will be more’

Entertainment reporter Peter Ford says there’s another “story” behind Lisa Wilkinson’s sudden exit from The Project.

World Cup

Tragic reason Morgan Freeman wore a glove

The legendary actor played a somewhat surprisingly central role in the World Cup opening ceremony – donning a familiar item on his hand.

UpdatedNorth America

A photograph from social media showing the scene after a mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs late Saturday.The intersection of N. Carefree and N. Academy blocked off by police as first responders rush to the scene of the overnight shooting in Colorado Springs. Photo by: KOAA-TV

US rocked by nightclub mass shooting

At least five people are dead and 18 others are injured after a mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in the United States.

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