One Nation leader Pauline Hanson says she will push for a referendum to create a right to free speech that would make it harder for her widely condemned remarks about Muslims to fall foul of the law.

The anti-immigrant populist party has used online posts recently to falsely claim Labor’s post-Bondi hate crimes laws were being used by “political elites” to jail her over her statement that there were no “good” Muslims, directing supporters to a web page to sign up as One Nation members.

During a speech to global elites at the World Economic Forum in Davos last month, US President Donald Trump announced that while China sold windmills to "stupid people that buy them," it did not use wind power itself.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Cuba’s Interior Ministry has released new findings from its investigation into the deadly gunfight between Cuban border guards and a US‑flagged speedboat, saying the vessel was carrying ten armed men who allegedly intended to execute a “terrorist infiltration.”

Havana said the clash erupted on Wednesday when border guards approached a Florida‑registered vessel, FL7726SH, operating roughly one nautical mile off the northern coast of Villa Clara province for an identification check. The individuals aboard the boat allegedly opened fire first, wounding the commander of a Cuban patrol craft before guards returned fire, killing four people and injuring six others.

Anyone naive enough to believe that the United States wants to establish democracy in Iran should look into the current maneuvers of the United States to sabotage democracy in Iraq.

President Trump threatened vehemently to cut off Iraq's oil revenues if that country allowed the return to power of former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, that his administration considers too favorable to Iran.

US President Donald Trump delivered his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday, touting increased economic output and reduced immigration numbers, and praising National Guard deployments and the US men's ice hockey team.

In a record-long speech focused largely on domestic issues, Trump told Congress that "our nation is back" with an economy "roaring like never before."

He claimed that "American oil production is up by more than 600,000 barrels a day" and that "natural gas production is at an all-time high because I kept my promise to drill, baby, drill," applauded at regular intervals by Republican lawmakers.

Sixty years on from the Vietnam War marches, Australian union bosses are mostly MIA when it comes to protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Andrew Gardiner reports.

The genocide in Gaza, and moves to muzzle talking about it in universities and schools, have rank-and-file unionists up in arms. But union officials have barely lifted a finger on Gaza’s humanitarian catastrophe, or on schemes to stop us talking about it. Instead, we’re seeing a timid, tepid response from union bosses.

Spearheaded by Israel backers Jillian Segal and David Gonski, moves by the Anti-Semitism Education Taskforce threaten to “chill” Middle East debate in our seats of learning and elsewhere. To the dismay of rank-and-file members, many union execs seem ambivalent.

The Epstein affair is shaking all developed nations. Let’s summarize the facts: billionaire Jeffrey Epstein organized a network of informants for Mossad and the Franco-Swiss branch of the Rothschilds. To gain leverage over them, he gradually drew his targets (scientists, financiers, and politicians) into a series of increasingly atrocious games. Initially, he offered them extramarital affairs, then relationships with progressively younger partners, and finally, he involved them in torture, murder, and cannibalism.

Epstein, Yermak, and Zelensky

by Thierry Meyssan

The White House and Congress can and should provide relief to American families who bore the costs of illegal tariffs. The administration has the responsibility to design such relief.

President Trump, your tariff regime was illegal, unfair, and detrimental to the American people. You also grossly misrepresented the facts to the American people by claiming that foreign countries were paying. They were not. American families paid.

Jeffrey D. Sachs

Abigail Spanberger, the first female governor in Virginia's history, attacked President Donald Trump's economic and immigration policies during Democrats' response to the State of the Union address.

She questioned whether the president was working to make life more affordable and safer for Americans, while criticising Trump's immigration crackdown in US cities and tariffs on imports.

While top bureaucrats are now earning one million a year, the tribunal that decides who gets what is doing its best to keep its decisions secret. Rex Patrick reports.

The head of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet gets over $1 million a year, and the Secretaries of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Defence and Home Affairs are not far behind at $960,000. In fact, only two departmental heads earn less than $900,000.

These are extremely generous salaries and entitlements by international standards.

US Government Department Secretaries, who head up much larger agencies with much bigger budgets, get less than half those salaries. They are limited to US$250,000, around $400,000.

WARNING — BULLSHIT STORY FOLLOWS: Among the many grim milestones of a bloody war in Ukraine that has now been going for four years was one reached recently: For the first time since its invasion, Russia has lost troops faster than it can replace them.

"In the last month, Russia actually lost more people in terms of those killed in action and grievously wounded than it's been able to actually recruit," said Fiona Hill, a renowned Russia analyst and foreign affairs expert.

"That is something of a milestone. People have always looked at that as a kind of tipping point.

"I wouldn't say that it actually is at the moment."

Although UV radiation is a minor fraction of solar energy that reaches the earth’s surface, it significantly affects plants. UV-B radiation affects important biomolecules directly, including nucleic acids and proteins; these molecules absorb UV radiation easily when presenting π electrons, and this absorption can lead to metabolic, biochemical, and morphological alterations, as well as alterations in the genetic material [5, 6].

Ultraviolet Radiation and Its Effects on Plants

WRITTEN BY

Vladimir Zelensky brought some of his most ardent fans to Kiev to mark the fourth anniversary of his wartime leadership, but the supporting actors in the Ukraine Cinematic Universe had little to offer him.

A look at the guests who showed up suggests Ukraine’s backers are divided into those who have to and those who don’t.

Solidarity simulacra: Zelensky’s four-year reality check
The Ukrainian leader’s key backers were conspicuous in their absence from the pomp and posturing in Kiev

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the Environmental Protection Agency is rescinding the legal finding that it has relied on for nearly two decades to limit the heat-trapping pollution that spews from vehicle tailpipes, oil refineries and factories.

The repeal of that landmark determination, known as the endangerment finding, will upend most U.S. policies aimed at curbing climate change. 

The finding — which the EPA issued in 2009 — said the global warming caused by greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane endangers the health and welfare of current and future generations.