Tasmania’s Liberal government has been recommissioned after weeks of political limbo after a snap election that failed to deliver either major party a majority. The premier, Jeremy Rockliff, met with the governor, Barbara Baker, on Wednesday at Government House to formally ask for his minority government to remain. Baker accepted the request after Rockliff told…
The US Department of Health and Human Services said on Tuesday it would terminate 22 federal contracts for mRNA-based vaccines, questioning the safety of a technology credited with helping end the Covid pandemic and saving millions of lives. The unit, Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, helps companies develop medical supplies to address public health…
Revenue generated from News Corp’s global newspaper mastheads has fallen sharply, including in Australia, weighing down an otherwise positive financial result. Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate continues to generate large wads of cash from its digital real estate arm but advertising revenue at News Corp Australia, a division that includes the Australian, the Daily Telegraph and…
The UK will pay the costs of transporting asylum seekers to and from France under Keir Starmer’s “one in, one out” deal with Emmanuel Macron, it has emerged. The deal will have to be renewed by 11 June next year, and can be ended at a month’s notice by either side, documents made public by…
The Trump administration said it would cut terrorism prevention funding for New York City, according to a grant notice posted days after a gunman killed four people inside a Manhattan skyscraper. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) stated in a grant notice posted on Friday that New York City would receive $64m less this year…
Montana governor Greg Gianforte on Tuesday signed an executive order freeing up more resources for local law enforcement as they searched a mountainous area for a former US soldier suspected of killing four people at a bar on 1 August. The search for Michael Paul Brown stretched into its fifth day with more than three…
Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Republicans are entitled to the five more seats they could pick up if congressional maps proposed by Texas Republicans are passed. Trump called in for an interview with CNBC Tuesday morning, before Texas Democrats denied a legislative quorum for the second day in a row by fleeing the state,…
A support worker with a false identity who left a vulnerable 14-year-old girl unwatched in a secure psychiatric ward during his first shift had never worked in a hospital before, the teenager’s inquest has heard. Following the death of Ruth Szymankiewicz, police found the support worker had “stolen” the false identity, had a fake passport…
A huge wildfire tearing through California’s Los Padres national forest is threatening hundreds of homes, after injuring at least three people in days before. The Gifford fire has already scorched more than 72,000 acres (29,000 hectares) in coastal Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, north of Los Angeles, and was still burning out of…
The remains of homes believed to have been lived in by working-class people around the time of the early Roman empire have been found by workers building an underground station in the city’s historic centre. The relics are the first to emerge from beneath the bustling Piazza Venezia since work began in 2023 on the…
