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Trump claims Iranians welcome US strikes and lower court judges challenge Trump’s ‘war on rule of law’ – key US politics stories from Monday 6 April at a glance
Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith, who has been arrested in Sydney in connection to an investigation over war crimes. (AAP: Flavio Brancaleone)
Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez and Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times,
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Topic:Road Accidents and Incidents
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In his news conference Monday, President Donald Trump threatened to blow up every bridge and power plant in Iran, action that would be so far-reaching that some experts in military law said it could constitute a war crime.
Sixty years ago in April 1966, thousands of Hongkongers protested over planned 5-cent increase to Star Ferry ticket prices
Lil Nas X, whose legal name is Montero Lamar Hill, appears in court charged with four felony counts, including three counts of battery with injury on a police officer in Los Angeles on March 12, 2026. (Daniel Cole/Pool Photo via AP, File)
The thug accused of gunning down a 7-month-old girl in her stroller pushed by her parents confessed he was aiming at the infant’s dad during the botched Brooklyn drive-by, according to court papers.
Topic:Wildlife Traffic Accidents and Incidents
Ukrainian president says Russia unlikely to accept – ‘for them, nothing is sacred’; Australian police arrest army reservist for joining war. What we know on day 1,504
Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively reportedly declined a last-minute settlement attempt over the latter’s sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit.
The government's 'adult time, adult crime' laws are a key policy for the LNP. (ABC News: Cameron Simmons)
An Australian Army reservist accused of fighting for the Ukrainian military will face court in Adelaide today.He is the first person ever to be charged with breaching defence legislation, after he allegedly worked for a foreign military without authorisation.Federal police began investigating after the Department …
Adriana Rivas (pictured here in a 2013 interview) is accused of participating in the disappearances of seven people while working for former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's secret police force. Source: SBS News
Australian Federal Police officers arrested an Australian Army reservist following the execution of a search warrant at a home in South Australia. Source: AAP / Australian Federal Police
Australian War Memorial director Matt Anderson said the display had been updated to reflect the recent developments. Source: SBS News
“Nothing is certain” regarding Trump v. Barbara, the Supreme Court case about birthright citizenship, though there are “signals” the “conservative justices are unlikely to reject” the customary reading of the 14th Amendment, observes Jonathan Turley at The Hill. While “there are good-faith arguments against” finding…
Liam Walsh is an investigations reporter with ABC News in Queensland. He has won multiple media awards for his coverage of issues like political corruption and corporate wrongdoing. His experience ranges from working in newspapers in Japan to The Australian Financial Review. Contact Liam on walsh.liam@abc.net.au, vi…
A city Parks Department employee was busted for using a city-owned vehicle to ram a pair of strangers who tried to snatch the mirrors off his personal car over the weekend, police said.
A custody hearing in Ada, Oklahoma, last month took a turn for the unexpected — and the incredibly loud — after an attorney who identified himself as transgender was arrested and dragged from the courtroom where he had appeared to represent his client just minutes before.
An Oklahoma City Police car drives into the Springlake Police Station in Oklahoma City, on Oct. 7, 2015. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
Wandering down the unlit corridors of a six-storey building behind the Royal Hill casino, each door opens onto a different world.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday he’s “not at all” concerned about committing possible war crimes as he threatened to destroy Iran’s bridges and power plants if Tehran does not meet his Tuesday 8 p.m. ET deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. (AP Production: Marissa Duhaney)
A Queens man found guilty of executing Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay — but whose conviction was overturned by a federal judge — could be freed within days after being granted a $1 million bond Monday.
The wedding between billionaire Stephen Cloobeck and the Penthouse Pet accused of shaking down rich old men for money took a dramatic turn when she pleaded not guilty in a Los Angeles courtroom Monday.
A South Australian army reservist was arrested after he allegedly working for Ukrainian military without authorisation. (Supplied: Australian Federal Police)
Jason Day felt compassion for Tiger Woods as the famed golfer goes through with his struggle with addiction, but there was one thought that Day couldn’t shake when he spoke with reporters on Monday ahead of this week’s Masters.
US-Israeli strikes have been on a noticeable uptick against Iranian institutions of higher learning over the last days. This has included a large-scale aerial assault on Tehran’s Sharif University, which is often dubbed the "MIT of Iran".
A judge in California has granted rapper Lil Nas X entry into a mental health diversion programme after he was arrested for attacking police officers while wandering nearly naked through the streets of Los Angeles last August.
The mom accused of fatally strangling her three kids with an exercise band and paralyzing herself in a suicide bid says she’d cop to her heinous crime — as part of a move that could keep her out of prison.
Howard Stern’s former employee claimed in a new lawsuit that the SiriusXM star and his wife, Beth Stern, imposed unusually strict — and at times deeply personal — rules on their household staff.
Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
Kalshi scored a win in the first ruling among a sweep of lawsuits from US states seeking to restrict prediction markets, as a federal appeals court rejected New Jersey’s attempts to ban sports bets on the platform.
Up to 250 schools in knife crime hotspots will receive specialist training in a bid to divert children from serious violence, the government has announced.
Ruling, vacating lower court’s temporary block, applies to classrooms and libraries up to sixth grade
Nine police officers have been sentenced to death in India over the deaths in custody of a father and son in 2020.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pick to lead the city’s government corruption watchdog was grilled by local lawmakers for donating and volunteering for his campaign during a tense back-and-forth Monday.
Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times,
WASHINGTON — President Trump said Monday afternoon that he’s unconcerned about critics claiming that airstrikes on critical infrastructure would amount to a war crime — insisting that Iranian civilians “want us to keep bombing.”
A man was fatally stabbed at Buff Point on the NSW Central Coast. (Supplied: Google maps)
A Russian court has jailed the former governor of Kursk in a high-profile corruption case linked to Ukraine’s incursion into the border region.
The United States Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Justice Department to move forward with dismissing a criminal case against Steve Bannon, a key ally of President Donald Trump, who was convicted after refusing to testify or provide documents to Congress despite being issued a subpoena.
In this image from police body camera video released by the Martin County, Fla., Sheriff’s Office, golfer Tiger Woods is taken into custody by sheriff’s deputies following a car crash in Jupiter Island, Fla., Friday, March 27, 2026. (Martin County Sheriff’s Office via AP)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa can enforce a law that restricts teachers from talking about LGBTQ+ topics with students in kindergarten through the sixth grade and bans some books in libraries and classrooms, an appellate court said Monday.
FIL - In this Feb. 22, 2002 file photo made in Los Angeles, the late Rap legend Jam Master Jay, is shown. (AP Photo/Krista Niles, File)
A federal judge dismissed a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing the maker of Stanley tumblers of concealing that the popular water bottles contained lead.
Former State Intelligence Service Director, Major General Suresh Sallay, has moved the Court of Appeal (CA) seeking urgent judicial intervention against his arrest and detention over ongoing investigations into the Easter Sunday attacks.
The 1995 hotline, a 24-hour emergency service launched by the Ministry of Environment to combat environmental crimes, has received 240 complaints in four months.
Police have issued a warning to the public to be vigilant of possible financial fraud and data theft via the internet during the Sinhala and Tamil New Year season.