USA Update

The owner of Perth’s biggest pub is lukewarm on the idea of WA getting its twelfth public holiday in a year, saying they usually make for risky trading days and more expensive meals for punters. 

In tonight’s show, Ben Harvey explains how the gruesome death of a dead baby is linked to the retirement of a prosecutor-turned-judge-turned-corruption buster.

For a show that dares to start with a different lens, the execution disappoints by not taking that boldness all the way.

Early Sunday evening in Los Angeles, as the city was under siege by federal anti-immigration forces, aided by local law enforcement, Mayor Karen Bass was holding a press conference. Out in the streets, a reporter noted, it appeared that the Los Angeles Police Department was “cooperating” with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and “using flashbangs and […]

Doctors at Columbia University Fertility Center have reported what they are calling the first pregnancy using a new AI system, in a couple that had been trying to start a family for nearly two decades. The pregnancy was possible due to an advance developed by the Columbia team, led by Dr. Zev Williams, director of […]

North Korea appears to be building a new uranium-enrichment plant in its main nuclear complex, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog warned this week, the strongest sign yet that the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, plans to grow its nuclear weapons supply. Until now, experts and the International Atomic Energy Agency had identified two undeclared uranium-enrichment plants […]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s warning about mitochondria slipped in between the anti-vaccine junk science and the excoriation of pharmaceutical drugs as “the No. 3 killer in our country.” He was speaking in 2023 to Joe Rogan, elaborating on the dangers of Wi-Fi—which no high-quality scientific evidence has shown to harm anyone’s health—and arguing that it […]

For more than 13 hours over three days, jurors in the federal trial of Sean Combs have heard gripping testimony from one of his former girlfriends, a witness for the prosecution called Jane. Now it is time for her cross-examination. Mr. Combs, the producer and impresario also known as Puff Daddy and Diddy, is charged […]

Mistral’s Arthur Mensch has been a longtime AGI sceptic. LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP via Getty Images Artificial general intelligence, or AGI, is the AI industry’s holy grail — but the CEO of a major AI startup has dismissed it as a “marketing move.” AGI is broadly used to describe a system that could perform any task that […]

LONDON —Former MEP David Bull has been appointed chair of Reform UK, ending days of uncertainty within Nigel Farage’s insurgent right-wing party. The Reform UK leader said Bull, a broadcaster and former deputy leader of the party, will take over the party’s operations and “give leadership to that volunteer army out there.” The previous chair […]