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Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Friday to rebrand theDepartment of Defenseas the Department of War, his latest effort to project an image of toughness for America's military.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Germany has been one of the dominant nations in world football for decades, but the team has to lift to avoid play-offs to make it to the World Cup after a stunning loss to Slovakia.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:A South West recreational shooter has criticised the WA government's deer aerial cull program after finding several deer with multiple bullet wounds on crown land.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Thursday responded to ProPublica reporting about Trump Cabinet membersβ mortgages, saying that βthe hypocrisy of the Trump administration is nothing short of staggering.β βDonald Trump has made mortgage fraud accusations his weapon of choice to attack people standing in his way and people standing up to him, like me,β Schiff...
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:News Corp channel puts to air statement from extremist just days after alleged attack on Indigenous protest site. Plus: 4BCβs typo to end all typos Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWe all saw footage of the disturbing behaviour of neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell, who shouted at the Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, as she was holding a press conference at Eades Park in West Melbourne earlier this...
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:President Trump on Thursday night hosted top tech executives in a one-of-a-kind White House event, during which he asked attendees to say how much their companies were investing in U.S. manufacturing. The president sat beside Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a long table, with first lady Melania Trump on the other side. Microphones and place...
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:Japan's Nikkei 225 was set to open higher after U.S. President Donald Trump formalized a lower tariff on Japanese auto imports at 15%.
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:Secretary of State Marco Rubio made the announcement Thursday while in Ecuador as part of a trip to Latin America overshadowed by an American military strike against a similarly designated gang, Venezuela's Tren de Aragua.
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Trumpβs strike on βnarco-terroristβ boat legally murky The Trump administration's few details about a U.S. military strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea has fueled questions as to whether it violated maritime law or human...
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:The painting, Portrait of a Lady, had disappeared from the collection of a Jewish art dealer during World War II.
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:Snow settled as low as about 300 metres in parts of Tasmania, but warmer conditions are on the way.
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:An appeals court issued a Thursday order halting the dismantling of Alligator Alcatraz, the Trump administration's migrant detention site based in the Florida Everglades. In a 2-1 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit overturned a lower courtβs order that deemed the site a threat to the environment. Judge Barbara Lagoa and...
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:Former President Biden underwent a procedure recently to have skin cancer removed from his forehead, a spokesperson confirmed to The Hill on Thursday. A Biden spokesperson told The Hill that the former president had Mohs surgery, a procedure where surgeons cut away thin layers of skin, examining each for signs of cancer, until no signs...
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:A Ballina Council audit finds 80 per cent of clothes thrown away are in perfect or near-perfect condition, sometimes with the tags still on.
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:Agricultural brokers tell the BBC there has been a surge of interest in trade with China from exporters.
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:OpenAI is looking to expand its infrastructure and hiring in India after CEO Sam Altman visited the country this year.
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:"Gen Z is reshaping workplace norms by introducing new ways of working that reflect their values, digital fluency, and desire for authenticity," one expert told CNBC Make It.
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:Private equity titan accused pair of helping a former colleague launch a competitor
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:The East Asian nation known for its grueling work culture is trying to find a better work-life balance for its citizens.
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:Northwestern emerged as a prominent target of President Donald Trump's campaign to reshape elite colleges he has derided as hotbeds of liberalism and antisemitism.
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:PHOENIXβDespite a summer in which nearly 600 people are suspected to have died in the increasing heat of the changing climate in the nationβs sunniest state, Arizonaβs largest utility walked back its clean energy commitments in August. Nearly two dozen Arizonans gathered outside Arizona Public Services headquarters Thursday to protest that decisionβas well as the [β¦]
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:Almost one million remain in the city; those who flee risk death elsewhere in enclave, with no safe place to hide.
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:China has been North Koreaβs biggest trading partner and aid provider, though questions have lingered about the strength of their bilateral relationship.
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was grilled during a combative hearing before the Senate Finance Committee. Senators pressed Kennedy on his views on vaccines and whether he was effectively limiting access and destroying trust in past data and public health agencies. The hearing comes just a week after his decision to fire the director of the CDC, Dr. Susan Monarez. Lisa Desjardins reports.
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:The name change will likely require an act of Congress, although the White House is looking for ways to avoid a vote.
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Blackburn presses for kids online safety bill Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) is pushing for the passage of kidsβ online safety legislation in the face of growing concern about the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots on young users. Greg Nash Blackburn, who has long advocated for the...
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:In a fiery Senate hearing, Robert Kennedy Jr. made a number of questionable or misleading claims about vaccines, COVID and the health of Americans. Amna Nawaz discussed some of these claims with Dr. Richard Besser, the president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the Obama administration.
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:Rubio's position justifies extraterritorial armed intervention under the pretext of the "war on drugs," dividing countries into cooperative and non-cooperative.
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:Trump officials defend health secretary after sharp questioning from Republican and Democratic lawmakers
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:ONEONTA, Ala.βThe names echoed down the halls of the Blount County courthouse Thursday morning like a childβs game of telephone. βDarlene?β One of the county commissioners was reading from a list of those whoβd asked to speak at a public meeting concerning the potential approval of a medical waste treatment facility in nearby Remlap. βDarlene,β [β¦]
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:In our news wrap Thursday, D.C. is suing the Trump administration to end its deployment of the National Guard in the city, President Trumpβs nominee to fill an open seat on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors said he would not resign his position at the White House if confirmed to the role and Gaza health officials say more than 64,000 people have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war.
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:It wasn't only Democrats confronting President Trump's health secretary during a heated hearing in the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday. Three Republican senators β Bill Cassidy (La.), Thom Tillis (N.C.) and John Barrasso (Wyo.) β also harshly questioned Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his opinion on Trumpβs COVID-19 response,...
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:A Pennsylvania plastics manufacturer will pay $2.6 million for allegedly violating the federal Clean Water Act and will ensure that no more of its plastic pellets leak into waterways, under a proposed settlement with two environmental groups. PennEnvironment and Three Rivers Waterkeeper sued Styropek USA, claiming the company discharged large quantities of βnurdlesββtiny pellets used [β¦]
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:President Trump is scheduled to sign an executive order Friday formally renaming the Department of Defense the Department of War, the White House confirmed. Trump had in recent days signaled the change was coming, pointing to the history behind the name and his belief that it better reflected the Pentagon's offensive operations. Fox News first...
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