Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump’s nominee for national intelligence director, refused to call the whistleblower Edward Snowden a “traitor” but sought to rein in her unorthodox views on foreign dictators and opposition to electronic surveillance during a tense confirmation hearing that could sink her nomination to oversee the country’s sprawling intelligence community. In a three-hour hearing…
The first stick was small, and shaped like a revolver. It was late summer 2023 and two friends, Boone Hogg and Logan Jugler, both 31, were on a late summer hike heading towards Delicate Arch, a 16m red rock formation in Utah’s Arches national park, when Jugler spotted it on the ground. He picked it…
Public sector union pans Dutton for urging DEI role cuts Dan Jervis-Bardy The main public sector union has lashed the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, after he foreshadowed the axing of culture, diversity and inclusion advisers as part of wider cuts to the commonwealth bureaucracy. In a speech to the Liberal party-aligned Menzies Research Centre on…
America’s biggest trading partners are bracing for Donald Trump to impose sweeping tariffs on their exports after the US president repeated his threat to hit Canada and Mexico with new duties. Officials in Ottawa and Mexico City have drawn up plans to retaliate against Washington with tariffs of their own, raising the prospect of a…
Figure skaters aboard American Airlines flight that crashed in DC Russian skaters and coaches Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were aboard the crashed flight returning from Kansas. The plane crash outside Washington D.C.’s Reagan National Airport left the figure skating world in shock Thursday as reports revealed that many members of the figure skating community…
Donald Trump used the plane crash in Washington DC to attack his political enemies, claiming Democrats were responsible for declining standards in air traffic control and that the disaster “could have been” caused by diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies at the Federal Aviation Administration. Trump turned what might have been a sombre a press…