Eucla’s long-serving volunteer fire brigade captain Simone Conklin has been awarded an Australian Fire Service Medal for distinguished service in this year’s King’s Birthday Honours.

Police have seized a car more than once every hour so far this year, as rates of reckless and illegal driving rise as a result of technological advancements in the Force.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — A runaway pet zebra that was on the loose for more than a week in Tennessee and became an internet sensation in the process was captured Sunday, authorities said. Ed the Zebra was captured safely after being located in a pasture near a subdivision in the Christiana community in central Tennessee, […]

Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that President Donald Trump was attempting to “incite” violence at “peaceful protests” by sending the National Guard to Los Angeles. Booker said, “Look, since years before I was born law enforcement knows it’s good when there’s cooperation and coordination. For the president to do this, when it […]

Sydney Moore and Sabrina Ootsburg were surrounded by hundreds of college athletes at a convention in Charlotte when news broke that the $2.8 billion NCAA settlement had been approved by a federal judge. In a room full of college athletes, they felt like the only two people who understood the gravity of the situation. “I’m […]

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Don Nelson has been invited to the NBA Finals countless times in recent years, always declining those opportunities. This time, his peers found a way to ensure he couldn’t say no. Nelson — a Basketball Hall of Famer and three-time NBA coach of the year — was announced Sunday as this […]

WASHINGTON — When racial justice protests roiled cities across America at the depths of the pandemic, President Trump, then in his first term, demonstrated restraint. Threats to invoke the Insurrection Act and to federalize the National Guard never materialized. This time, it took less than 24 hours of isolated protests in Los Angeles County before Trump, more […]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in an interview that aired on Sunday revealed the difficulty that followed the high-profile blowup between himself and President Donald Trump in the Oval Office in late February. Zelensky, speaking with ABC News’ Martha Raddatz in Ukraine, described the situation as “quite complicated” as he had to try and repair relations […]

Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski. Dave Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images for Klarna The CEO of the Swedish payments company Klarna says that the rise of artificial intelligence could lead to a recession as the technology replaces white-collar jobs. Speaking on The Times Tech podcast, Sebastian Siemiatkowski said there would be “an implication for white-collar jobs,” which he […]

With an uncharacteristically feistiness, Speaker Mike Johnson took clear sides Sunday in President Donald Trump’s breakup with mega-billionaire Elon Musk. The Republican House leader and staunch Trump ally said Musk’s criticism of the GOP’s massive tax and budget policy bill will not derail the measure, and he downplayed Musk’s influence over the GOP-controlled Congress. “I […]