Good afternoon.<\/p>\n
Donald Trump has proclaimed the first year of his second term in office a success, using his State of the Union address<\/a> to say he inherited a country ruined by Joe Biden and quickly rebuilt it.<\/p>\n The president broke his own record for the longest State of the Union speech in history, clocking 108 minutes as he took repeated shots at the Democrats and hit out at the supreme court\u2019s \u201cunfortunate\u201d tariffs ruling<\/a>. Trump also claimed Iran was developing missiles that could threaten the US<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Democratic congressman Al Green was ejected from the speech<\/a> almost immediately for brandishing a sign that read \u201cBlack people aren\u2019t apes!\u201d as dozens of his colleagues boycotted the address to stage counter-events<\/a>.<\/p>\n Top newsIn picturesThe Pavona clavus coral was first found by Jan Pope in waters a few hours offshore from Cairns. Photograph: Richard Fitzpatrick\/Biopixel<\/p>\n Citizen scientists have discovered what they believe is one of the largest coral colonies ever documented<\/a> on the Great Barrier Reef. One veteran diver described it as \u201ca very surreal underwater landscape \u2026 like a rolling meadow\u201d.<\/p>\n What they said \u2026Designer Grace Kelly (centre) with models wearing her label Joaen. On Tuesday evening she won the National Designer award at Melbourne Fashion festival. Photograph: Danielle Castano<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s such a whirlwind. I didn\u2019t expect this so quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n In 2024 Grace Kelly closed her Brisbane-based brand Joaen to reassess its viability. On Tuesday night during Melbourne Fashion festival, she won the National Designer award<\/a> \u2013 the most prestigious award for emerging talent in Australian fashion.<\/p>\n Full Story Composite: Iva Sidash\/The Guardian<\/p>\n Ukrainian men on how four years of war has changed them<\/a><\/p>\n A DJ turned soldier explains how life has changed for Ukraine\u2019s men while Tracy McVeigh and Shaun Walker report on the impact of the conflict and what could happen next<\/a>.<\/p>\n Listen to the episode here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Before bed readWhen good neighbours become good friends. Photograph: Harold M Lambert\/Getty Images<\/p>\n Forget the fear of \u201cpublic speaking\u201d. Viv Groskop\u2019s research has showed her that what a lot of people don\u2019t like at all any more is \u201cspeaking to anyone in public\u201d \u2013 and it goes much deeper than all of us hiding behind our phones. So she asked the experts how best to initiate a conversation with strangers<\/a> and found the key is to lower the stakes.<\/p>\n Daily word game Photograph: The Guardian<\/p>\n Today\u2019s starter word is: LAP. You have five goes to get the longest word including the starter word. Play Wordiply<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sign up<\/p>\n If you would like to receive this Afternoon Update to your email inbox every weekday, sign up here<\/a>, or start your day with a curated breakdown of the key stories you need to know with our Morning Mail newsletter<\/a>. You can follow the latest in US politics by signing up for This Week in Trumpland<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good afternoon. Donald Trump has proclaimed the first year of his second term in office a success, using…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-502584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}