17+ min ago   (95+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. Senate candidates carefully navigate the protectionist minefield set by their party’s leader....

4+ hour, 31+ min ago   (754+ words) Liberals keep climbing in polls as Canadians rally behind Carney’s hard line on Trump, but the PM may have boxed himself in when it comes time to make a trade agreement If Mark Carney did blow the trade talks with…...

6+ hour, 4+ min ago   (1032+ words) September 13, 2026 — 5:01am As psephologists gradually realise that a clairvoyant has more chance of predicting the Victorian election, there’s one direct benefit to the political uncertainty: the much mocked, disliked, analysed and confusing beast that is One Nation has improved the contest…...

5+ hour, 4+ min ago   (673+ words) The blatantly antisemitic Piker commands millions of young followers Remember the media firestorm in 2016 when Donald Trump supposedly failed to denounce former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke? Trump, appearing on CNN, claimed he did not know enough about Duke…...

6+ hour, 5+ min ago   (760+ words) September 13, 2026 — 5:00am More importantly, some AfD representatives have past or present associations with fully fledged neo-Nazi groups rather than parroting online antisemitic conspiracies. Yet despite their differences, both parties have found themselves in the political niche termed populism. Which is, I’m…...

6+ hour, 5+ min ago   (988+ words) September 13, 2026 — 5:00am Almost half of Melbourne’s new housing approvals are concentrated in the city’s outer growth corridors, despite Labor’s push to prioritise building new homes in established suburbs and curb urban sprawl. There were 20,252 dwellings approved across Melbourne’s seven growth-area municipalities…...

6+ hour, 5+ min ago   (1177+ words) September 13, 2026 — 5:00am The first thing you’ll notice if you attend a chess tournament is how few women there are. It’s not uncommon for men to outnumber women by as many as 20 to one, often more, at these events. Chess remains stubbornly…...

6+ hour, 5+ min ago   (1208+ words) September 13, 2026 — 5:00am Bill Kelty, a mastermind of reforms that set up Australia’s modern economy, says Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers are fuelling One Nation and “insulting” voters by welcoming lower house prices as they preside over a fall in real wages…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (101+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. “Why is it that the ‘winners’ in the prevailing order seem so…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (82+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. Here are a few of the fronts on which that undeclared war…...