29 h. ago Venezuela v Australia: men’s international football friendly – live

Updates from the Socceroos’ match in the USKick-off at Shell Energy Stadium is 8.30pm CST/1.30pm AEDTAny thoughts? Get in touch with an emailThe players are out on the pitch at Shell Energy Stadium in Houston with Advance Australia Fair the first national anthem to sound out. Venezuela’s Gloria al Bravo Pueblo – Glory to the Brave People – is up now.This is the second meeting been Venezuela and Australia – but the first in more than 21 years – after the sides played out a 1-1 draw in a friendly in February 2004. Paul Agostino opened the scoring for the Socceroos, while Juan Arango equalised for Venezuela in the dying stages. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Epstein kept close eye on Trump even after friendship soured, newly released emails reveal

Documents show staff kept Epstein informed of Trump’s air travel – and Epstein kept up with news about former friendUS politics live – latest updatesA tranche of documents released by the House oversight committee on Wednesday revealed that Jeffrey Epstein’s staff kept him apprised of Donald Trump’s air travel as it related to his own transportation – and that the late sex trafficker kept up with news about his former friend years after their relationship soured.This disclosure of about 20,000 pages from Republican members of the committee related to Epstein comes as Trump continues to battle with the political fallout related to their past friendship – and his justice department’s failure to release documents as he had long promised on the campaign trail. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Anxious Democrats await key Election Day results in NYC, NJ and Virginia in first big test of Trump’s second term: Live updates

Trump threatened to send only the ‘minimum’ federal funds to New York City if Democratic socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani wins

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3 w. ago Trump was planning to send troops to San Francisco. Now he’s not. Here’s why | Joe Eskenazi

The US president’s reversal was as capricious as his original plan. What if local billionaires had urged him to stick with it?This story was published in collaboration with Mission Local.The mayor of San Francisco said on Thursday that Donald Trump had simply called him – no go-betweens or consigliere required – and told him there would no longer be a deployment of federal agents or troops to the city.Joe Eskenazi is an editor and columnist for Mission Local. Io Yeh Gilman and Xueer Lu contributed reporting Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Here are the ‘incredible’ friends who convinced Trump not to surge troops to San Francisco

The mercurial president said he’d received ‘four or five calls’ with some ‘very successful people’ who persuaded him to give San Francisco a chance

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3 w. ago Trump backs down on sending federal troops to San Francisco for immigration crackdown

Protesters flood streets in show of resistance, as president calls off deployment after speaking with city’s mayor and Silicon Valley leadersDonald Trump canceled plans for a deployment of federal troops to San Francisco that had sparked widespread condemnation from California leaders and sent protesters flooding into the streets.The Bay Area region had been on edge after reports emerged on Wednesday that the Trump administration was poised to send more than 100 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and other federal agents to the US Coast Guard base in Alameda, a city in the East Bay, as part of a large-scale immigration-enforcement plan. By early Thursday morning, hundreds of protesters had gathered outside the Coast Guard base, holding signs with slogans such as “No ICE or Troops in the Bay!”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Trump reveals the friends who convinced him to call off surging troops into San Francisco: Live updates

California Governor Gavin Newsom had threatened to sue the Trump administration if the president deployed the National Guard to the state

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3 w. ago Trump won’t send federal troops to San Francisco after ‘friends in the area’ asked him not to: Live updates

California Governor Gavin Newsom had threatened to sue the Trump administration if the president deployed the National Guard to the state

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3 w. ago Trump cancels plans to send federal troops to San Francisco for immigration crackdown

Mayor Daniel Lurie says he spoke with Trump as protesters took to streets in anticipation of a large-scale deploymentSan Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie has said that Donald Trump was cancelling plans for a “federal deployment” to the city as hundreds of protesters took to the streets in anticipation of a major immigration operation.Lurie said he spoke with the president late Wednesday evening, amid reports of that dozens of federal agents were headed to the San Francisco Bay Area. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘Inexperienced’ British surfer drowned in wild Melbourne weather alongside friend who jumped in to save him

Two men who died in sea on Wednesday identified as 36-year-old British national and 43-year-old friendFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAn “inexperienced” British surfer and a friend who jumped in to save him have been identified as the two men who died in rough waters off a popular pier in Victoria during wild winds on Wednesday.Emergency services were called to Frankston beach in Melbourne’s south-east after reports of two men in trouble in the water about 5pm, as the state was lashed by intense wind gusts. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago San Francisco leaders push back against Trump's National Guard threat

President Trump keeps threatening to send National Guard troops to San Francisco, calling it crime-ridden and claiming residents want federal help

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3 w. ago Trump mulls invoking the Insurrection Act and signals he’ll send troops to San Francisco

President blames Democratic leaders for resisting crime-fighting efforts as he continues to target cities for federal takeovers

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