1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (654+ words) Ordering the crowd inside the less-than-capacity American Airlines Center to raise their right hands, Trump, pausing for the audience to repeat each phrase, spelled out the following pledge: Please raise your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1428+ words) On Thursday, Sydney businessman Alexander Csergo was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for supposedly reckless foreign interference involving two Chinese people. The judge declared that such a severe punishment was needed to send a wider message. Csergo’s jailing underscores…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (478+ words) A quarter century after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, the events of that day have passed, for many, from memory to history. About one in three Americans alive today was born after the attacks. The “mistakes” it names are the 2003 invasion…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (874+ words) Teachers at Overnewton Anglican Community College, an independent P-12 school in Melbourne’s western suburbs, have voted to take industrial action for the first time in the school’s history. This is a further indication, following strikes in government schools across Australia, that…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1180+ words) The attempt by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to bring down bond yields (interest rates) at the longer end of the market by organising an increased Treasury buyback operation of up to $6 billion has hit the ground with a thud....

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1016+ words) The National Archives and Records Administration will close branches in San Francisco and Chicago. It is the latest move in the Trump administration’s attack on history and public education. While news of the closures only reached a major national news…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (309+ words) Conahan’s execution was one more in a killing spree without precedent in Florida’s modern history, to which we will return. The conviction was sealed by jailhouse informant John Neuman, who claimed Conahan had confessed to the killing. That testimony was…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (532+ words) Hours earlier, standing near the US border, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum had wished for a good relationship with Trump: “In President Trump’s first term there was a very good relationship with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. And that is what…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1619+ words) Autorickshaw and taxi drivers in Ahmedabad staged a four-day strike from September 7 to 10 over declining earnings and competition from app-based transport platforms. Twelve driver organisations said around 200,000 drivers were involved. Strikers demanded minimum fares for online bookings, controls on high…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (214+ words) What was covert in 1973 is now proclaimed from the stage of a fascist summit in Santiago. The Trump administration does not hide its operations in Latin America, but on the contrary advertises them. Fifty-three years ago, on September 11, 1973, the Chilean…...