Teens caught reportedly throwing things at cars charged over alleged stabbing

Australia’s preparations for a possible conflict with China reflect “a relatively superficial understanding”, argues prominent economist John Edwards. Europe, Canada, Indonesia, Malaysia and India, he notes, are not preparing for such a conflict. Why should Australia? Edwards, a former senior economic adviser to former Labor prime minister Paul Keating, makes the observation in a Lowy Institute paper released in October and in a newspaper interview. Instead, he sees US-China rivalry as a...

A 17-year-old boy has been charged after allegedly stabbing another boy in the arm at a house party.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is facing a new police investigation this morning with Scottish detectives probing what happened on his visits to Balmoral with Jeffrey Epstein.

The national debt topped the entire gross domestic product (GDP) for fiscal 2026, according to new data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). From the fourth quarter of 2025 through the third quarter of this year, the country’s economic output was more than $32.2 trillion, according to the BEA’s non-seasonally adjusted statistics. As of...

On a recent warm Thursday evening, supporters drift into San Francisco’s United Irish Cultural Centre to hear Connie Chan, who is running for California’s 11th congressional district. Born in Hong Kong, Chan attended elementary school in Taiwan before immigrating to the United States at 13. Now a San Francisco supervisor, she hopes to succeed long-time Democratic powerhouse Nancy Pelosi, who announced her retirement and endorsed her. The 48-year-old politician would be the first Asian-American...

A woman on an early morning run in Sydney’s eastern suburbs was approached by a man riding a bicycle.

The Australian dollar is particularly strong against its cross-Tasman counterpart.

Los Angeles police Officer Anthony Gutierrez has been charged with kidnapping, assault and two counts of child abuse likely to cause serious injury.

Federal grand jury subpoenas have demanded that county election officials turn over internal communications and testify, raising concerns that investigations could intimidate workers.

Inquest exposes systemic failures that led to his preventable death.

Pike, 50, said she has been in constant pain since she survived two doses of pentobarbital on Sept. 30 for the 1995 stabbing death of 19-year-old classmate Colleen Slemmer.