Category: Politics

Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast BCA chief executive, Bran Black, said the report calls for practical reforms to remove unnecessary red tape to boost investor confidence and make it easier to work, trade and do business across Australia. “We have become too complex a country…

DC police announces new ‘juvenile curfew zone’ in popular Navy Yard area after arresting dozens of people on Wednesday Melania Trump has demanded that Hunter Biden retract comments linking her to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and has threatened to sue if he does not. Biden, the son of the former president Joe Biden, alleged…

UK prime minister will be joined by Ukrainian president as he says Britain stands ready to ‘increase pressure’ on Russia if necessary Rachel Reeves has said that Thursday’s GDP figures “show that the economy beat expectations in the second quarter of this year”. Speaking at a construction site in Doncaster, the chancellor said “there’s still…

Rod Price recounts ‘frantic’ call he received from Sarah Shaw after her detention at US border while returning from Canada The father of a New Zealand woman who has been held in a US immigration detention centre for three weeks with her six-year-old son is hopeful the pair will be released by the end of…

About 50% of people use the same password for more than one account. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then my colleague Nick Visser will be in the…

Foreign secretary had failed to secure a rod licence before hosting US vice-president at his official residence in Kent Former Holyrood presiding officer George Reid has died at the age of 86, his family have announced. He died in the early hours of Tuesday at Strathcarron Hospice near Denny, just a few miles from where…

Volodymyr Zelenskyy will join calls with Trump and Vance in last chance to shape US position before Alaska meeting Ukraine will not cede land that could be Russian springboard for new war In his latest update before travelling to Berlin, Zelenskyy repeated his key lines about “putting pressure on Russia” to achieve a peace settlement.…

Australia’s biggest bank delivers bumper payout to shareholders as CBA vows to end lending to coal companies with no net zero plans Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Commonwealth Bank has posted a record cash profit while announcing it will cut…

Trump deployed national guard troops after taking control of DC police, sparking fears of similar moves elsewhere US politics live – latest updates About 850 officers and agents took part in a “massive law enforcement surge” across Washington DC on Monday night and made nearly two dozen arrests, the White House has said. The show…

Chuck Schumer called Trump’s decision to federalize the DC police and deploy national guard to the city an ‘attempted distraction’ from ‘other scandals’ Later on, we’ll hear from the Trump administration for the second day in a row. The president won’t make an appearance, but press secretary Karoline Leavitt will hold a White House briefing…