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Canada wouldn't sign a trade deal, so Trump renamed their lake "Lake America"
He announced it in the Oval Office beside a hand-lettered cardboard sign, and said the Atlantic and the Pacific might be next.
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A 14-year-old killed eight people in Thailand with a legally registered handgun. The government has now promised twice to check who owns guns. It still hasn't.
Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has vowed a new gun law. He ordered one after the Siam Paragon shooting in 2023, when he was interior minister.
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A court has just told the President of the United States he is a tenant. His ballroom is due to open four months before he has to move out.
The DC Circuit halted construction 2-1, ruling only Congress can authorise reshaping the White House, and stayed its order for a Supreme Court appeal.
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Fauci refused to answer 15 questions about the last pandemic while Trump pushes to strip vaccines before the next one
Rand Paul will move a contempt vote next week, days after the administration banned the gain-of-function research at the centre of his case.
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Three fires merged outside Madrid and Spain reached for an emergency power it had never used
About 110,000 people fled the French Atlantic coast as fires merged west of Madrid and Europe passed its two-decade burn average in July.
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Trump cannot legally run in 2028. His people have been working on that for two years.
Trump donned a Trump 2028 cap at the correspondents' dinner and called it a scoop. The constitution says he cannot run.
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The Tate brothers spent years untouchable — now the manosphere's kings are in a Miami cell
US federal agents have arrested Andrew and Tristan Tate in Miami on a UK extradition request, with prosecutors adding rape and child-abuse image charges.
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Trump demands Canada pay for smoke as its forests burn
More than 900 fires are burning across Canada, and the president says the cost of the smoke will be added to Canadian tariffs.
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Trump spent a day charging the world to use the sea. He changed his mind within 24 hours.
His own secretary of state had warned a fee like this would spread through the world like a contagion.
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The US just used a drone boat for the first time. Everyone else got there years ago.
Unmanned speedboats packed with explosives hit an Iranian naval base this week, and America is the last major power to the party.
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Trump sent federal agents to reporters’ doors. Australia should be paying attention.
The subpoenas against New York Times journalists are a warning about what leaders do to the press when embarrassed — and Australia has fewer protections than the United States.
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The Iran ceasefire has collapsed, and the world’s oil is caught in the middle
A third round of American strikes and a contested closure of the Strait of Hormuz have reignited a conflict that runs all the way to the petrol bowser in Australia.