‘You’re going to feel a pinch’: Roadwork adds barriers for Tucson businesses

Tucson store owners say large road improvement projects, including the closure of the 22nd Street bridge and roadwork on Grant, have detoured traffic and customers…

An invitation from Newscorp’s “most trusted media brands”. What’s the scam?

Murdoch's News Australia has invited "a select group of local businesses" to a workshop hosted by "Australia's most trusted media brands.

Maddow: The good news about our bad president

Rachel Maddow points out that while it’s never a good thing to have a bad president, having a bad president as incompetent as Donald Trump…

He Shockingly Abandoned the Republican Party!

China launches probe after media reports of contaminated diapers

Chinese authorities have launched an investigation after local media reported that a rash-causing irritant had been found in nappies from brands including Huggies, Beijing’s market…

Funding for DV services to tackle ‘abominable’ issue

Advocates of family violence prevention are grateful for a cash injection provided by a state budget, but stress it must continue for the system to…

Washington brought a memorandum to a war made of history

American power has a tell. When faced with a war it wants to end, Washington develops a comprehensive plan that includes phased withdrawals, monitoring arrangements,…

Victoria claims to have stopped native logging. So why is it importing Tasmanian forests?

There’s no economic or environmental case for native logging. Yet taxpayer money is still being used to support it.

One Nation’s surge continues in polls as Andy Burnham set to become next UK PM

In polls taken partly after Pauline Hanson’s address at the National Press Club, her party’s vote has climbed further.

View from The Hill: Longer NDIS inquiry is bad for the government, costing ‘a few hundred million dollars’

The government had little choice but to agree to the extension, which will take several hundred million off its projected savings.

Cheap, effective and dangerous: how Australian farmers came to depend on the toxic weedkiller paraquat

Paraquat is banned in dozens of countries – but this cheap imported herbicide is everywhere in Australia.

‘It will kill the brand’: plea over brewery’s closure

A brewery which has operated for almost 150 years will stop production in November but workers have made a last-ditch appeal for a change of…

Hospital Authority dismisses resident doctor over unauthorised exam linked to sacked intern girlfriend

Hong Kong authorities have dismissed a doctor for conducting an unauthorised examination, after his trainee doctor girlfriend was earlier sacked for accessing patient records without…

Ten Australians are taking the government to the UN over fossil fuel exports. What is their case?

This historic case could establish a legal link between human rights and fossil fuel exports.

S.F. supervisor Jackie Fielder to return to City Hall after mental health leave 

The Mission District supervisor is coming back to San Francisco City Hall after a doctor-recommended three-month rest. S.F. supervisor Jackie Fielder to return to City…

Four Amazon Electric Vans Destroyed in Suspected Arson

Four electric Amazon Prime delivery vans were destroyed in a fire early Monday morning in what Portland Fire & Rescue and the Portland Police Bureau…

Explosions heard as warehouse fire breaks out in Hong Kong’s San Tin

A fire in a warehouse broke out in Hong Kong’s San Tin area in the early hours of Tuesday, with explosions heard and a large…

One Nation monoculture claim red-carded as ‘nonsense’

Anthony Albanese has pushed back on Pauline Hanson's call for Australia to be a monoculture, citing the nation's World Cup squad as proof of its…

Who else besides the U.S. uses Fahrenheit these days?

The only nations primarily using Fahrenheit are (1) the U.S. and its possessions, (2) the Bahamas, (3) the Cayman Islands and (4) Liberia.

Judge blocks Biden-era immigration rule hours after Texas AG and Stephen Miller’s group sued DOJ

On Monday, Ken Paxton’s office asked the judge to block the rule, a request the federal agency then agreed with. The suit echoes a similar…