President Trump doubled down on his extraordinary call for the Republican Party to “nationalize” voting in the United States, even as the White House tried to walk it back and members of his own party criticized the idea. Trump said on Tuesday that he believed the federal government should “get …

What started last year as an effort from the administration to investigate antisemitism on the Cambridge, Mass. , campus quickly morphed into a broad attack on the university, including 13 investigations from 10 federal agencies. Trump said Harvard should have a cap on the number of international students enrolled. That …

When the Canadian comic actress Catherine O’Hara died last week at 71, fans mourning her loss had no shortage of works to revisit: “Waiting for Guffman,” “Beetlejuice,” “Home Alone,” “Schitt’s Creek. ” But it was her turn in Christopher Guest’s 2000 mockumentary “Best in Show” that people seemed to gravitate …

Two days before he killed himself in a federal jail, Jeffrey Epstein signed a document that gave away much of his once vast estate, a total of $100 million, to his girlfriend at the time. In the document, the registered sex offender said he had contemplated marrying his girlfriend, Karyna …

House Republicans on Tuesday canceled a planned vote to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to testify in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, after the Clintons agreed to be deposed on camera this month and requested that they be allowed to do so at public …

A 27-year-old Melbourne man has died at a ski resort in Japan, days after the death of Queensland snowboarder Brooke Day. The man collapsed and suffered a heart attack while skiing with six others in Niseko, Hokkaido, on Monday, according to a spokesperson for a local ski lodge who asked …

The federal government will sell off $3bn in defence properties around the country, after a major audit of land holdings found they served no useful strategic value. Defence sites – including Victoria Barracks in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane – will be sold after the multi-year audit, tasked with identifying surplus …

Clive Palmer has denied Steve Bannon helped direct his advertising blitz in the 2019 federal election, suggesting texts published in the Jeffrey Epstein files about the strategy were an attempt by the former Trump strategist to “increase his own influence” by claiming credit. Palmer said he’d never communicated with Epstein …

The Indian government has condemned the theft of a bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi from a community centre in Melbourne’s south-east last month, calling for the culprits to be held accountable. Victoria police are investigating the theft from the Australian Indian Community Centre in Rowville and have warned scrap metal …

The last British prime minister to visit China was Theresa May in 2018. Before the visit, she and her team were advised to get dressed under the covers because of the risk of hidden cameras having been placed in their hotel rooms to record compromising material. Keir Starmer, in Beijing …