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Gombe, Nigeria – On a weekday morning in Pantami District, Gombe, the streets fill with the familiar rush of motorcycles carrying students, workers and traders across the city. But increasingly, some pass almost silently – a subtle sign of a transport shift driven not by climate policy, but by Nigeria’s soaring fuel…
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey spent this week signing away one of the last hard limits on abortion in a state that already ranked among the most permissive in the country, and now even some of her own party's lawmakers think she went too far.
A plan by one of Sydney’s best-known waterfront venues to loosen its liquor restrictions has been sunk by the state’s licensing regulator after a wave of community opposition over noise, alcohol-related harm and impacts on wildlife.
Stephen Corsini hopes his portrait of Australia's first female prime minister will one day hang in Parliament House. (ABC News: Simon Beardsell)
Nation’s spy agency accuses foreign forces of ‘brainwashing’ young people, but critics say ‘lying flat’ is a rational response to a broken system.
Authored by Spyridon Andrews via the Abstract Truth Substack,
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on July 2. © Kyodo
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on July 2. © Kyodo
Hamas political leader and chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya is travelling to Cairo for talks with Egyptian officials, according to Hamas sources, ahead of a planned Middle East visit by US President Donald Trump’s envoy, Jared Kushner.
Chris Minns says the scheme will bring some of the strictest legislation passed on firearms in Australia. (ABC News: Nick Dole)
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There are lies, damn lies, and then there are statistics. Thus posited Mark Twain, who attributed the origin of that scathing observation to 19th-century Jewish British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. The saying suggests that attempting to encapsulate some event or other in pure numerical terms belies the facts-on…
Published 16 August 2026 3:00pm
Luigi Mangione has admitted to fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and pleaded guilty to two federal stalking charges.
Luigi Mangione has admitted to fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and pleaded guilty to two federal stalking charges.
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Players in the prime minister simulator No 10: Full Confidence must balance the moods of factions including their cabinet and the media
Yemen’s Houthis have launched several strikes on the government-held city of Marib, also hitting residential neighbourhoods, according to local authorities.
Published 16 August 2026 9:13am
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez have both spoken in recent days about balancing their careers with motherhood
When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump met in the Oval Office on July 28, Trump asked Netanyahu how he was doing in the polls ahead of the October 27 Knesset election, according to a Friday Axios report.
Legislation for plan passed parliament earlier this year and is set to commence in NSW from November. Follow live updates
Authored by Matthew Andersson via AmericanThinker.com,
Saudi Arabia has announced the formal launch of a multinational maritime defense coalition aimed at safeguarding shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, as escalating hostilities with Yemen’s Houthis threaten one of the world’s most important trade routes.
Saudi Arabia has announced the formal launch of a multinational maritime defense coalition aimed at safeguarding shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, as escalating hostilities with Yemen’s Houthis threaten one of the world’s most important trade routes.
Yemeni government forces said at least three Houthis have been killed during drone strikes west of Taiz governorate, in the southwest of the country, according to the Yemen News Agency.
Published 16 August 2026 6:36am
Authored by Jonathan Turley,
Edinburgh film festivalA women’s spiritualist investigation team go after the serial killer, braving evil forces conjured into being by fear, misogyny and political rage
Federal parliament has returned from winter break with a frenetic start to the second half of the political year. There were days of commentary and squirming over ‘melon-gate’ and, with Labor planning to make a deal with the Coalition to pass gambling reforms, there are still doubts about the government’s ambition i…
While the United States is celebrating its 250th anniversary of independence, the parents of a teenager with American citizenship, murdered 25 years ago in an atrocity whose perpetrator, Ahlam Tamimi, was released from prison in 2011 by the Israeli government in the Schalit deal, have since then been pleading with t…
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Private sector players are mulling whether to make a bid to help build the Melbourne Airport rail link as key questions remain over the funding and delivery of the project from Sunshine to Tullamarine.
US-based tech billionaire Elon Musk and President Donald Trump have rekindled their friendship after falling out last year, with Musk preparing a major donation to Republicans for the midterm elections, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people who accompanied the two to China.
US-based tech billionaire Elon Musk and President Donald Trump have rekindled their friendship after falling out last year, with Musk preparing a major donation to Republicans for the midterm elections, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people who accompanied the two to China.
With elections looming, many Israelis are dooming and glooming. It’s not healthy for citizens in democracies to view every election as existential. The panic ignores Israel’s many economic, social, cultural, and generational successes. Those strengths heighten the contrast with a broken political system featuring to…
At least 230 citizens of the United Kingdom applied for asylum in Australia in the last year, in the latest sign that the refugee system is being abused by people who want to stay in the country longer.
Iran has invoked Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky to accuse Washington of basing its foreign policy toward Tehran and the wider Middle East on “lies,” as efforts to end the months-long conflict remain stalled.Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei cited a passage from Dostoevsky’s ‘The Brothers Karamazov’ in a…
Iran has invoked Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky to accuse Washington of basing its foreign policy toward Tehran and the wider Middle East on “lies,” as efforts to end the months-long conflict remain stalled.Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei cited a passage from Dostoevsky’s ‘The Brothers Karamazov’ in a…
Mexican journalist and Miami-based news anchor Jorge Gilberto Ramos Ávalos had one of the most revealing exchanges yet with the leadership of the Democratic Socialists of America.
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said the death of a high-profile Black academic accused of plagiarism and falsifying his achievements should serve as a “moment of reflection”.
Robert Bridge is an American writer and journalist. He is the author of 'Midnight in the American Empire,' How Corporations and Their Political Servants are Destroying the American Dream.
Robert Bridge is an American writer and journalist. He is the author of 'Midnight in the American Empire,' How Corporations and Their Political Servants are Destroying the American Dream.
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Sudan’s Sovereign Council chief and army commander Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has pledged temporary immunity and legal, political and security guarantees for participants in a Sudanese dialogue to be managed by an independent national mechanism.
ONE of the youth panelists said something most parents don’t hear very often, not directly anyway: young people sometimes hide their online activity, and not because they’re doing anything wrong. It’s more that they’re afraid of being misunderstood. That fear mattered more than any single app feature, and it was the…
TOKYO — Japan's defense minister paid his respects Saturday at a shrine honoring the country's war dead that has long dogged Tokyo's relations with its Asian neighbors, but Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stayed away.