International
Wisconsin state patrol trooper detained by ICE released from custody
Carel Aaron Van Der Merwe immigrated to US at 14 and has been waiting seven years for asylum case to be heard
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Politics
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Israel’s president picks Eisenkot over Netanyahu to form next government
Isaac Herzog formally gives Gadi Eisenkot 28 days to secure 61 Knesset seats and replace Netanyahu as prime minister.
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Israel president taps Eisenkot to form new government
Israel's president announced on Saturday he would task Gadi Eisenkot with forming the next government following last week's election, in what Netanyahu's rivals see as a first step to remove the country's…
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Judge to appoint special master to determine whether Trump lawyers purposely misled her over golf course
Ana Reyes wants to know whether federal officials lied about extent of renovation plans at East Potomac golf course
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Israeli president picks Netanyahu's rival Eisenkot to try to form government
Israeli President Isaac Herzog picked former military chief Gadi Eisenkot to try to form a government, he said in a statement Saturday. Last month's parliamentary elections left neither Eisenkot nor…
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How did AIPAC-backed candidates fare in the US midterm elections?
Many candidates the pro-Israel group backed still won, but most of the money it spent went to candidates who lost.
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What’s more powerful than the politics of division? Actually listening to people
US voters have shown there’s nothing inevitable about populism and big money politics. Australian leaders take note
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How do you broker UN climate talks when your own country is a big coal and gas exporter? Chris Bowen is about to find out
The climate change minister dismisses concerns about whether Australia as a major producer can keep the world moving away from fossil fuels
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A Big Build royal commission helped Ben Carroll become premier. Will it be his downfall?
Two weeks of public hearings will begin on Monday morning, right in the middle of the state election campaign
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‘People are active, they are fed up’: young voters fueled the Democratic wave
After helping Trump to victory in 2024, young voters swung decisively toward Democrats, helping deliver a wave of midterm victories
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Politics
Rise in NHS birth centre closures ‘shocking’ denial of women’s rights, experts say
Twelve midwife-led maternity units have closed in England since 2019 with six closing since Labour came to power in 2024 NHS officials are shutting growing numbers of birth centres in a “shocking” denial of a woman’s right to have a midwife rather than a doctor oversee their baby’s birth, say campaigners. Twelve birth centres – midwife-led maternity units – have closed in England since 2019. Birth centres play a key role in ensuring that women can choose whether to have their baby at a unit in a hospital run by doctors, at one where midwives are in charge, or at home. Continue reading...
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Did the Bay Area just save its transit system from the brink of certain death?
Voters approved two measures to save the region’s financially distressed public transit agencies
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