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Xi to host Putin and Modi as China presents rival front to US
Shanghai Cooperation Organization security meeting will mark Indian PMβs first visit in 7 years
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Hopeful customers queue for hours for award-winning cookie pies
The phenomenon of queuing for food has made its way to the regional Victorian town of Ballarat, with locals braving the winter cold, hoping to get their hands on a famous cookie pie.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Trump's rebuke, Xi's handshake, Putin's oil: India's foreign policy test
Indiaβs foreign policy sits uneasily in the Trump-led order, caught between Russia and strained US relations.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Nephew of Australian music royalty takes rock to outback kids
Fronted by the kin of Aussie music royalty, Elvis Kernaghan and The Min Min Lights turn outback classrooms into rock concerts.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Most of Donald Trump's tariffs illegal, US court rules
But the US president says the ruling is "incorrect", and is indicating taking the case to the Supreme Court.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:US bars Palestinian leader Abbas from UN meeting to recognise state
Trump administration extends visa ban to include authorityβs president
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:βStop killing womenβ: Australian mother vows to be voice for slain daughter
Alicia Little was killed by her partner in 2017. Her killer was released from jail after two years and eight months.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Trump administration cancels $679 million in funding for offshore wind projects
The Transportation Department on Friday canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects, the latest attack by the Trump administration on the reeling U.S. offshore wind industry.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Social Securityβs chief data officer resigns, cites 'culture of panic and dread'
Social Security Chief Data Officer Charles Borges submitted a Friday resignation letter days after citing policy violations in a whistleblower report documenting the Department of Government Efficiencyβs (DOGE) decision to upload sensitive data to a βvulnerable cloud environment.β βRecently, I have been made aware of several projects and incidents which may constitute violations of federal...
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Most Trump tariffs ruled illegal by appeals court, dealing major blow to trade policy
The appeals court stayed its ruling until Oct. 14, giving the Trump administration time to ask the Supreme Court to hear the case.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:US federal appeals court strikes down major chunk of Trumpβs tariffs
The ruling will not take effect right away, giving the administration time to appeal to the Supreme Court.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Trump nixes $679m in funding for offshore wind farms amid fossil fuel push
The cancellation is Trump's latest move against renewable energy, which the US president has dismissed a 'scam'.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Manhunt in Australian bush brings long-dismissed conspiracy theorists to the fore
Two officers were shot dead in a small, rural town, allegedly by a man with links to the "SovCit" movement.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Former prisoner who rebuilt his life wants to improve others' chances
Peter Griffiths-Sebastian went from prison to being a big part of the local community. What can help others make the same shift?
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:California energy regulators halt efforts to penalize oil companies for high profits
The penalty was considered a landmark piece of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's government and the stateβs ambitious goals to curb climate change.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Trumpβs tariffs ruled illegal by US appeals court but stay in place
Judges uphold ruling that the president exceeded his authority
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:News Wrap: Trump trying to block $5B in foreign aid already approved by Congress
In our news wrap Friday, President Trump is trying to block nearly $5 billion in foreign aid funding already approved by Congress, an emergency hearing on Trump's firing of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook concluded with no immediate ruling, GOP Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst reportedly won't seek reelection and Trump revoked the Secret Service detail for former Vice President Harris.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Utah Supreme Court blocks firing squad execution of prisoner with dementia
Theimpending executionof a man by firing squad in Utah was blocked by the stateβs Supreme Court on Friday after his attorneys argued he should be spared because he has dementia.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:What consumers can expect as de minimis exemption ends
Americans are no longer able to import cheap foreign goods tariff-free. The Trump administration ended the de minimis exemption, which allowed packages valued under $800 to enter the U.S. with no import tax. Last year, there were nearly four million such packages a day. Amna Nawaz discussed the latest with Clark Packard. He is a trade expert at the libertarian Cato Institute.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Missouri’s governor orders redrawing of U.S. House map in response to Trump’s urging
Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe said Friday that he is calling Missouri lawmakers into a special session to redraw the stateβs U.S. House districts as part of a growing national battle between Republicans and Democrats seeking an edge in next yearβs congressional elections.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:WFP’s Cindy McCain describes dire conditions after visit to famine-gripped Gaza
Israel launched its Gaza City offensive, labeling it a Hamas stronghold. Itβs home to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians already facing starvation and yet another round of forced displacement. The U.N. warns that Israelβs evacuation orders are a βrecipe for disaster." William Brangham discussed more with Cindy McCain of the World Food Programme, who just returned from a mission to Gaza.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Appeals court finds Trump had no right to impose tariffs, but leaves them in place for now
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Trump wasnβt legally allowed to declare national emergencies and impose import taxes on almost every country on earth, a ruling that largely upheld a May decision by a specialized federal trade court in New York.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:At least seven Palestinians killed in overnight Israeli strikes on Gaza
At least seven Palestinians killed in overnight Israeli strikes on Gaza At least five Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes on a home in Nuseirat, in the centre of the enclave, overnight Friday into Saturday, local reports confirmed. An apartment was also targeted in an Israeli air strike in the Karama neighbourhood north of Gaza City, in the northern part of the Strip, leaving behind at least two dead.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Frustrations rise in Israel as war endures and hostages remain in Gaza
Israel said it recovered the body of a hostage kidnapped and killed during Hamasβ Oct. 7 attacks, along with the remains of another hostage it did not identify. The announcement was yet another reminder of how the country lives in the shadow of Oct. 7. Nick Schifrin and producer Karl Bostic report on the countryβs mood, 693 days since the war began.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Public health in βuncharted watersβ amid CDC tumult
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story CDC upheaval pushes public health into βuncharted watersβ In less than a week, the public health sector has been plunged into chaos as leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) leave the agency amid heightened...
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Democrat warns Trump firing challenges integrity of STB ahead of railway merger decision
Itβs not as well-known as the Federal Reserve or the CDC, but the Surface Transportation Board is the latest agency in the Trump administrationβs sights. President Trump abruptly fired Robert Primus, one of only two Democrats on the five-member board, just as regulators weigh the largest railroad merger ever proposed. Geoff Bennett spoke with Primus about the timing of his firing.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:U.S. revokes visas of Palestinian president, other officials ahead of UN General Assembly
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has revoked the visas of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and 80 other officials ahead of next monthβs annual high-level meeting of the U.N. General Assembly, a step the Palestinian Authority decried as against international law.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:US appeals court rules Trumpβs foreign tariff campaign is largely illegal
But the court has allowed the tariffs to remain in place while the Trump administration appeals to the Supreme Court.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Brooks and Atkins Stohr on the political response to the Minnesota school shooting
New York Times columnist David Brooks and Boston Globe columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including the tragic school shooting in Minnesota, the Trump administration's actions to remake the government and the Ukraine war continues two weeks after the Trump-Putin summit.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Israeli settlers illegally seize land belonging to Doctors Against Genocide co-founder
Israeli settlers illegally seize land belonging to Doctors Against Genocide co-founder Israelisettlers seized land in the occupied West Bank belonging to Nidal Jboor, aPalestinian-Americandoctor and co-founder of Doctors Against Genocide (DAG), "a coalition of healthcare professionals who wanted to unite their voices in uproar against the genocide in Gaza". His family land is inMasafer Yatta, an area that was heavily...
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:'Destroying aspirations': Filmmakers still waiting on content quotas
With promised local content requirements for streaming services delayed indefinitely, Australian filmmakers say the local industry is hurting.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Katrina victims reflect on how the storm changed their lives
Friday marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which decimated New Orleans and communities along the Gulf Coast, leading to one of the largest and most sudden relocations of people in U.S. history. Some 1.2 million Louisianans were displaced for months or even years. We spoke with a few of the thousands of Katrina survivors who relocated permanently.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Where is it snowing? South east Australia hit by Antarctic blast
Winter is almost over, but there was fresh snowfall across NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and the ACT overnight.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:20 years later, a look at the legacy of Hurricane Katrina
To discuss how the Gulf Coast has changed in the two decades since Hurricane Katrina, Geoff Bennett spoke with historian Douglas Brinkley. He was a professor at Tulane University in New Orleans in 2005 when Katrina hit, and is the author of "The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast." He's now a professor at Rice University in Houston.
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Who is Jim O'Neill, Trump's new CDC director
The White House quickly named a new leader of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushed out Director Susan Monarez this week. Jim O'Neill, a senior Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) official with deep ties to President Trump donor Peter Thiel,...
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