Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump’s first choice for attorney-general, ‘regularly’ paid multiple women for sex, including a minor, and purchased drugs illegally, according to a report by congressional investigators.
The 26-year-old appeared in a New York court where his lawyer said he was entitled to the presumption of innocence and accused law enforcement agencies and the city’s mayor of treating him like ‘some sort of political fodder, some sort of spectacle’.
The 42nd US president has been hospitalised for ‘testing and observation’ after developing a fever.
President Joe Biden’s move prevents President-elect Donald Trump from executing most men on federal death row.
‘Power isn’t about missiles, it’s the will to win’: Benjamin Netanyahu details the key decision points in the war against Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran.
News from the US suggests that president-elect Donald J. Trump is perceived by many to be the US commander-in-chief while President Joe Biden fades into political nothingness.
Joe Biden’s presidency ending in failure is the climax of a career in which his defining objective was simply to be, not to do.
Israel is on the cusp of stamping its authority across the Middle East like never before.
Pigeon fancying, once the gentle pursuit of millions, may go the way of stamp collecting. But the humble pigeon will not be so easily defeated.
Yellowstone captures a strand of American feeling that’s deeply opposed to change. It shows us that for all the idiocy of Trumpism, his success is built upon a constituency with a clear and dogged notion of who they are and want to be.
Readers may recall I recently discovered I am a New Zealand citizen by descent. Now I realise my NZ credentials are phony, an elaborate hoax played on me by the Kiwis to join their cult.
Obama and Biden tried to make the US more like Europe but the 47th president is a throwback to national exceptionalism.
Trump, Ramaswamy, Kennedy and others hopefully will begin to Make American Science Even Greater. We need to do the same in Australia.
Meta says fears that artificial intelligence would unleash a torrent of misinformation to deceive voters around the world did not come true as elections played out around the globe this year.
By raising the stakes in the Israel-Hamas conflict, Donald Trump is hoping to look stronger than Joe Biden and take the credit for any settlement secured prior to his January 20 inauguration.
The Starmer government says an elections bill, which would include lowering the voting age, could be introduced during the next parliamentary session.
Anthony Albanese faces another high-stakes effort to secure the release of an imprisoned Australian after Melbourne man Oscar Jenkins was captured by Russian forces while fighting for Ukraine in the country’s eastern Donbas region.
I fell for the Blake Lively smear campaign. I did, and I’m sorry. But while many will dismiss this story as frivolous, there are dark forces at work here shaping the way we think, act and feel.
Simeon Boikov, who is holed up in the Russian embassy in Sydney, tells The Australian he’s ready to be swapped for a Melbourne man captured by Vladimir Putin’s forces in Ukraine.
Pressure is mounting on German authorities over their lack of action on the alleged Magdeburg Christmas market attacker despite his long history of violence and threats.
Donald Trump has suggested taking Greenland from Denmark as the Panamanian president reacts angrily to a threat the US will take over the Panama Canal.
The United Healthcare chief executive’s assassination transformed him from a largely unknown executive to a potent symbol for the frustration many Americans feel towards healthcare.
Private prisons are getting ready to cash in on what Donald Trump has billed as ‘the largest domestic deportation operation in American history’.
Albania will ban TikTok for a year after a 14-year-old boy was stabbed to death last month in an argument that started on social media.
Donald Trump will sign executive orders to end ‘child sexual mutilation’, and to ‘get transgender out of’ the military and schools on day one of his presidency.
Senior Israeli defence officials are reportedly pushing for a direct strike on Iran rather than only the Houthis as the Ayatollah ali Khamenei appears to try to distance Tehran from the Yemen rebel group.
Two US Navy pilots ejected from their jet fighter over the Red Sea after being caught in ‘an apparent case of friendly-fire,’ as American forces conducted a new round of attacks against the Houthi militant group.
There is anger even among Republicans after president-elect Donald Trump torpedoed an earlier deal
In the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami, one of the most destructive natural disasters in recorded history, reconstructing Banda Aceh was not just about replacing a flattened city but repopulating families and communities after one-third of its people perished.
Prime Minister Meloni has become one of the key figures in European politics and an influential voice on the right throughout the West.
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