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Feb 27, 2026 - World

Opposition leader Jess Wilson is under pressure to reveal her position on a deal with Pauline Hanson’s party as the state election approachesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWhile internal divisions have long been the Victorian Liberal party’s main obstacle to winning government, a new threat is emerging on its right flank: One Nation.Just four years ago, One Nation received just 8,077 lower house first-preference votes out of more than 3.6m cast in Victoria – equivalent to 0.22% of the total – and won a single seat in the upper house. Continue reading...

Feb 27, 2026 - World

Former president tells House oversight committee he is cooperating in the Epstein investigation out of love of country and desire for victims to healBill Clinton says he had ‘no idea’ about Epstein’s crimes in House testimonyHoward Lutnick scrutiny grows as new photo shows him with EpsteinSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts direct to your inboxJames Comer, the chair of the House oversight committee, said the committee’s list of questions for Bill Clinton grew longer after Hillary Clinton’s deposition yesterday, where she deferred a host of questions to her husband.“So we already had a big portfolio of questions for him, and that increased yesterday,” Comer said at a press conference outside the building where the closed-door deposition was set to begin shortly. Continue reading...

Feb 27, 2026 - World

"I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong," the former Democratic president said in an opening statement he shared on social media at the outside of the deposition.

Feb 27, 2026 - World

Home secretary will defy ‘plain wrong’ calls from unions and leftwing MPs that she is alienating Muslim votersShabana Mahmood will press on with hardline immigration policies despite calls for a reversal from unions and left-leaning Labour MPs after the Green party’s byelection victory.Senior Labour sources insisted that the home secretary would continue to roll out changes to asylum policy, dismissing as “plain wrong” claims that it would further alienate Muslim voters. Continue reading...

Feb 27, 2026 - World

Law demanding IDs must match ‘sex at birth’ invalidated the driver’s licenses of about 1,700 trans people in the state Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxTwo transgender men are suing Kansas over a new law that invalidated their driver’s licenses and about 1,700 others for reflecting people’s gender identities and not their sex assigned at birth, arguing that the measure is “dehumanizing”.The men filed their case Thursday, the same day the law took effect, and argue that it violates rights to privacy, personal autonomy and due legal process guaranteed by the Kansas state constitution. The men also are challenging the law’s tough, new enforcement provisions for the state’s three-year-old policy of barring transgender people from using public restrooms or other single-sex facilities associated with their gender identities. Continue reading...