3 h. ago Australian PM shrugs off questions about Donald Trump as other world leaders congratulate him

Anthony Albanese gets back to work after celebratory brunch in Sydney – saying, ‘We’ve got a big job to do’Australian federal election 2025 LIVE – latest Australia news and updatesElection 2025 results LIVE: Australia votes tracker and federal seat countsSee our full coverage of the Australian electionGet our breaking news email,free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese says his job is to “represent Australia’s national interest” after his thumping election win, shrugging off questions about when he might visit the United States to speak to Donald Trump about tariffs and trade.The re-elected prime minister said he had spoken to the leaders of Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, France and the UK, and looked forward to calls with the presidents of Indonesia and Ukraine.Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Who is behind the great rock’n’roll ripoff? How Ticketmaster swallowed the live entertainment scene

From grassroots gigs to stadium shows, there’s no escaping the ticketing giant, making billions from hiking up prices (and whacking on fees)Even Donald Trump knows that the price of concert tickets is too damn high. Recently, flanked by the preposterously dressed Maga rocker Kid Rock, the president signed an executive order to protect fans from “crazy prices” by cracking down on scalpers and hidden fees. “Make America Fun Again,” Kid Rock declared.It will take more than an executive order to resolve the ticketing industry’s most intractable problems. Scalpers, anyway, are an easy target with few friends. The fact is that, with or without them, top-flight concert tickets have never been harder to acquire or afford. As customer experiences go, it’s the pits. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Arizona communities bank on Trump's push for coal to ensure they're not forgotten

President Donald Trump wants to tap into “beautiful, clean coal" to help meet the electricity demands of what he bills as a new dawn of manufacturing and technological advancement in the United States

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4 h. ago A legislative session like no other: Key issues that didn't go in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' favor

Gov. Ron DeSantis has had firm support from Florida's legislative body for six years

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6 h. ago Singapore’s ruling party sweeps to victory as voters opt for stability

PAP’s 16th consecutive win comes as Donald Trump’s tariffs rattle trade-reliant financial hub

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9 h. ago Australian federal election 2025 live: Coalition licks wounds after Peter Dutton loses seat in Labor election thrashing – latest Australia news and updates

Labor is set to govern with a huge majority after the Coalition vote collapsed and Peter Dutton lost his seat of Dickson. Follow today’s news and the latest resultsElection 2025 results LIVE: Australia votes tracker and federal seat countsAnthony Albanese secures ‘win for the ages’ for Labor at federal electionGlum and glummer: Liberal faithful reel as Peter Dutton loses seat of Dickson after 24 yearsFull coverage of the Australian electionGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLittleproud on Labor: ‘They’re a slick machine’Finally, David Littleproud is asked about what impact Donald Trump had on the outcome after Labor sought to tie Peter Dutton to the US president throughout the campaign.What Anthony Albanese and the Labor team were able to was to really tap into these sorts of issues and then paint a bigger picture and destroy his character.I think there’s a lesson in how they (Labor) did politics. They did it a lot better than us, and you’ve got to acknowledg...

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9 h. ago Donald Trump fired national security adviser Mike Waltz for 'plotting with Israel's leader to bomb Iran'

Mr Waltz, 51, was thought to have been fired because he accidentally added a journalist to a group chat about plans to attack Yemen's Houthi terrorist group.

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16 h. ago Donald Trump's mental state questioned as he's dubbed the 'elderly relative shouting in a group chat'

Posts on the Commander in Chief's social media site, called Truth Social, have at points verged on being incomprehensible, and some of Trump's critics have voiced their concern

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17 h. ago Donald Trump posts bizarre image of himself as pope just week after pontiff’s funeral

The US President previously joked he ‘would be my number one choice’ to replace late Pope Francis

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18 h. ago Indigenous activists see Trump's Columbus Day rhetoric as cause for continued advocacy

President Donald Trump has announced he won't recognize Indigenous Peoples Day and will bring Columbus Day “back from the ashes” — another sign some Native leaders say that advocacy for Indigenous representation must continue during Trump’s second term in the White House

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18 h. ago Scientific societies to do climate assessment after Trump administration dismissed authors

Two groups join forces for peer-reviewed research after key contributors on Congress-mandated report dismissedTwo major US scientific societies have announced they will join forces to produce peer-reviewed research on the climate crisis’s impact days after Donald Trump’s administration dismissed contributors to a key Congress-mandated report on climate crisis preparedness.On Friday, the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU) said that they will work together to produce over 29 peer-reviewed journals that will cover all aspects of climate change including observations, projections, impacts, risks and solutions. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago Albanese’s Labor wins landslide victory in Australian election

Opposition crashes to worst defeat in 80 years after voters reject proposals championed by Donald Trump

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19 h. ago These activists are ‘flooding the zone with Black history’ to protest Trump’s attacks on DEI

The Freedom to Learn campaign included panels and coffee meetups and will end Saturday with a protest and prayerA coalition of civil rights groups have launched a weeklong initiative to condemn Donald Trump’s attacks on Black history, including recent executive orders targeting the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington DC.The national Freedom to Learn campaign is being led by the African American Policy Forum (AAPF), a social justice thinktank co-founded by the law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw. Crenshaw is a leading expert on critical race theory (CRT), a framework used to analyze racism’s structural impact. She has fought against book bans, restraints on racial history teaching and other anti-DEI efforts since the beginning of the Republican-led campaign against CRT in 2020. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago These activists are ‘flooding the zone with Black history’ to protest against Trump’s attacks on DEI

The Freedom to Learn campaign included panels and coffee meetups and will end Saturday with a rally and prayerA coalition of civil rights groups have launched a weeklong initiative to condemn Donald Trump’s attacks on Black history, including recent executive orders targeting the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington DC.The national Freedom to Learn campaign is being led by the African American Policy Forum (AAPF), a social justice thinktank co-founded by the law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw. Crenshaw is a leading expert on critical race theory (CRT), a framework used to analyze racism’s structural impact. She has fought against book bans, restraints on racial history teaching and other anti-DEI efforts since the beginning of the Republican-led campaign against CRT in 2020. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago Will Jeffrey Epstein’s victims ever get justice? | Arwa Mahdawi

I have a suggestion for conspiracy theorists: instead of searching for secret plots, why not grapple with some very clear facts?Last weekend the terrible news broke that Virginia Giuffre, one of the most prominent victims of the disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein, had died by suicide. Conspiracy theorists immediately started circling. A tweet from 2019, in which Giuffre said she wasn’t suicidal, was dredged up. Donald Trump Jr, the president’s eldest failson, then amplified the theory to his millions of followers, adding that “other than the Clinton’s [sic] no one has more suiciding going on”.Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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19 h. ago Throngs of admirers fill an arena to get Warren Buffett's take on tariffs and Berkshire Hathaway

Thousands of Berkshire Hathaway investors have streamed into an arena hoping to hear Warren Buffett address what he thinks of President Donald Trump’s tariffs and explain why he is sitting on $347.7 billion cash

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19 h. ago Jaguar Land Rover restarts car exports to the US despite Donald Trump's 25 per cent tariffs that will put £9,500 on price of a Range Rover Evoque

Jaguar Land Rover has resumed shipments of its cars to the US after apparently shrugging off concerns about Donald Trump 's trade tariffs, which will see a 25 per cent levy on foreign cars.

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20 h. ago Australian conservative opposition leader loses seat in ‘Trump factor’ backlash

It comes days after Canada’s centrist Liberal Party stormed to victory in what will be seen as part of an international voter backlash against the Trump administration

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20 h. ago Zelensky calls meeting with Trump at Vatican 'the best' and raises ceasefire hopes

Volodymyr Zelensky was pictured in conversation with Donald Trump at the Vatican for the funeral of Pope Francis. The Ukrainian leader now says they agreed on several points

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20 h. ago Tech oligarchs are gambling our future on a fantasy | Adam Becker

Musk and Bezos are the heirs to a quasi-religious belief in tech salvation. The rest of us are stuck in the real worldIt’s tempting to believe that tech billionaires’ embrace of Donald Trump and the far right is a sudden rupture with the usual political ideology of Silicon Valley. Op-eds in the New York Times and elsewhere have made this case. Even Marc Andreessen, one of the billionaires in question, claims that this is what happened – he said that it was a change in the Democratic arty that pushed him and his fellow oligarchs into the arms of the GOP.Yet this is a serious misunderstanding of the situation. There wasn’t a sudden shift in the politics of tech – it was a homecoming. While it’s true that Silicon Valley has long supported Democratic candidates for political office – and that rank-and-file tech workers still vote overwhelmingly for Democrats – the fundamental ideology underpinning the culture of Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists and CEOs has always had a far-right li...

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