Elon Musk has been condemned by former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown over cuts to the US Agency for International Development – or USAID for short. Signage has been stripped from the agency’s ...

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The first Saturday Night Live since Donald Trump became president had his comedic doppleganger James Austin Johnson interrupt Lin-Manuel Mirada as he’s rapping about signing the Declaration of ...

Rates have been trending lower since the middle of last year. The Reserve Bank is expected to cut the official cash rate again next month. Reserve Bank data shows the average special rate being taken ...

POOL/AFP via Getty Images Musk walked back on his initial claim that DOGE would be able to cut the roughly $6.75 trillion annual federal budget by $2 trillion — but was still confident he could ...

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has announced plans to cut about 3,300 jobs, or about a quarter of its workforce, over the next three years. The federal department emailed ...

Vernon's new hairdo also drew comparisons to Stray Kids' Hyunjin's buzz cut debut last month at SBS's Gayo Daejeon 2024. Fans were similarly stunned and had mixed reactions upon seeing the idol ...

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