President Donald Trump hosted a 9/11 tribute event at the Ellipse featuring a recovered World Trade Center steel beam, honoring fallen first responders and victims.
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The ABC faces conservative backlash over scheduling US streamer Hasan Piker on Planet America ahead of the 2026 US midterm elections.
Donald Trump has confirmed he secretly changed aircraft after leaving a NATO summit in Turkey amid a possible Iranian missile threat, while questions remain over the danger faced by officials and journalists aboard the decoy plane.
A software glitch in New Jersey's motor vehicle system registered 6,600 noncitizens to vote, sparking a heated legal and political showdown between federal authorities and state officials.
Labor's tightly managed national conference delivered near-total unity, but the lack of public debate has sharpened questions about internal democracy, voter trust and whether discipline is masking unresolved policy fights.
Donald Trump says he is close to deciding on a massive military attack on Iran while global oil prices pass $100 a barrel following Houthi tanker strikes in the Red Sea.
One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce went viral after losing his cool and shouting at an off-camera dog during a fiery live interview on the ABC's 7.30 program.
Andy Burnham has officially become the United Kingdom’s seventh prime minister in a decade, removing top cabinet ministers and promising an immediate economic and political circuit breaker.
Hundreds of activists, academics, and First Nations leaders have converged on Alice Springs to protest the 60th anniversary of the top-secret US-Australian Pine Gap intelligence facility.
Donald Trump has ordered a renewed blockade linked to Iranian ports and proposed a 20% cargo charge through the Strait of Hormuz, as fresh strikes lift oil prices and deepen risks for Australian personnel and markets.
The US struck 140 Iranian military targets after an attack on a container ship, while Iran launched retaliatory attacks across Gulf states and claimed the Strait of Hormuz was closed.
Reports allege Turkey persuaded Washington to halt a US-Israeli-backed Kurdish incursion into Iran that was intended to support regime change.







