Senate confirms Trump adviser to top Fed role, despite central bank’s independence
Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska was the only Republican who voted against confirming Miran. The vote was otherwise…
Boeing faces disruption after union rejects third contract deal in St Louis
Products made at Boeing’s St Louis operation include the F-15 and F-18 combat aircraft, the T-7 Red Hawk…
Magnitude 7.4 quake strikes off Russia’s far east, tsunami warning cancelled
A National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) spokesperson told NZME there was no tsunami threat to New Zealand. Region’s…
False AI ‘fact-checks’ stir online chaos after Kirk assassination
Grok also falsely claimed that a Utah-based registered Democrat named Michael Mallinson had been identified as the shooter,…
US threatens to strip visas for foreigners over Kirk killing online posts
Kirk, a 31-year-old ally of President Donald Trump who has helped galvanise conservative support among young people, was…
East Coast’s Ainzley Cann crowned Teen Face of Beauty International NZ
The girls taking part in the international pageant will need sponsorship to help get them to the US…
President praises cancellation of Tom Hanks ceremony, calls star ‘woke’ on social media
Trump appeared to conflate the academy itself and the alumni group on social media, attributing the decision to…
What made Hurricane Katrina a catastrophe, and why its horrors linger 20 years later
Twenty years after one of the most costly and transformative disasters to hit the United States, visuals from…