Trump's voter raids have begun
Federal agents launched raids and arrests on Monday against a list of 20,000 Californians, based on unverified voter fraud claims.
Man who heckled Abdul El-Sayed is former Josh Hawley aide, records show
Thomas Teepell, who worked for Republican senator, demanded El-Sayed disavow Muslim Brotherhood A man who heckled Democratic candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed and demanded he disavow the Muslim Brotherhood at a Michigan townhall is a former aide to the Republican senator Josh Hawley, according to congressional staff records. At the event on Saturday, an attendee who gave his name only as “Tommy” shouted from the crowd, asking whether El-Sayed would disavow the movement. El-Sayed answered: “Sure, yeah, absolutely,” then turned the question around, asking whether the man assumed he wouldn’t. Continue reading...
How Corruption Got This Bad
Over the course of decades, the Supreme Court has legalized behavior that is poisonous to a functioning democracy.
Most Americans think Trump is using presidency to enrich himself, poll finds
Poll finds 66% of Americans think Trump is using position for monetary gain as his approval rating hits a new low Most Americans think Donald Trump is using the presidency to enrich himself, according to a new poll, as the US president’s approval rating falls to a new low ahead of November’s midterm elections. A new Washington Post-ABC poll put Trump’s approval rating at 33% as he continues to crisscross the country as part of his campaign blitz for embattled Republicans. Continue reading...
Furious Women
In the Epstein era, if we can’t get justice, then at least we can get vengeance on the small screen.
Curiosity, atonement or a score to settle? Why – and how – people get through their high school reunions
Reunions can be riotous, scandalous or just plain awkward. Experts and attendees share how to go in prepared * Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Mike walked into his 20th high school reunion with a mission. The 40-year-old firefighter from Melbourne was not the first, nor will he be the last, to enter such a space with an agenda. After all, few social situations are as fraught as high school reunions. Some may relish the chance to reconnect with former friends, a former life and even a former self, but for many they are a potential hellscape, where adolescent humiliations are revived in front of a group of rapidly ageing peers. Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Sunday morning Continue reading...
Australia’s $10bn EU trade deal has stalled again. What is it and what’s gone wrong?
Trade minister warns there is no room to renegotiate, saying ‘we’ve got to either accept or reject this offer’ * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast After a decade of tough negotiations, the Albanese government does not yet have the numbers it needs to get a hard-won free trade deal over the line. Talks with the European Union were finalised in March, and Labor expects to introduce the agreement to parliament early in the new year. But the deal, worth $10bn a year, is already facing opposition from the Coalition and meat producers urging the government to go back to the drawing board. Continue reading...
Spielberg’s War of the Worlds forced Americans to look in the mirror – and see the real monster
Starring a smooth-sprinting Tom Cruise at the top of his game, Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi thriller shows the scales falling from his own country’s eyes I know, I know. There have been so many adaptations of HG Wells’ classic 1898 science fiction novel of planetary invasion, both before and since Steven Spielberg took his swipe at the story in 2005, with a Tom Cruise still at the top of his box office game. Some versions of War of the Worlds have been dire, while others – the 2019 TV adaptation starring Gabriel Byrne, or Jeff Wayne’s 1978 concept album featuring Richard Burton – have been expertly realised, refracting the story through their own contemporary lenses. But Spielberg’s is the best. While it was a financial hit, Spielberg’s version was not universally loved. Peter Bradshaw, in his review for this masthead, called it “fundamentally unambitious and often quite dull”. So there! One of his strongest gripes was the design of the aliens themselves, which were “just Area 51 cliches”. But, at risk of raising the ire of one of the great film critics of our time, I think Bradshaw missed the point. Spielberg’s aliens were designed to be cliches, cobbled from the fears of previous generations. They were supposed to be familiar because we’d invented them. Continue reading...
‘I feel like I’m 21’: Joe Ingles on the NBA, life in Australia and 1,500 days without drinking
The veteran is adjusting to living in Melbourne and playing in the NBL after 12 years spent on the North American basketball rollercoaster Basketballer Joe Ingles appears as the archetype of the Australian larrikin. There is one box, however, he no longer ticks. The 39-year-old gave up alcohol in 2022 after suffering a serious knee injury, and he has now gone more than 1,500 days without drinking. “Stopping – that part of it – during rehab was very easy,” he says from Melbourne, after moving back to the NBL following 12 seasons in the NBA. At that point, it was just one aspect of aiding his recovery. Like staying healthy and avoiding junk food. Continue reading...
Genetic study shows seafarers from Easter Island settled Hawaii
It was a difficult, almost incomprehensible, feat. A band of seafarers from Easter Island in the South Pacific set off in double-hulled sailing canoes on a voyage across Earth's largest ocean that ended more than 4,400 miles (7,100 km) away in Hawaii, the only Polynesian island in the Northern Hemisphere.
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