The federal government shutdown entered Day Nine on Thursday after Republican and Democratic bills to reopen the government failed again.

The industry minister has defended a $600 million joint bailout of a Queensland copper smelter as "a good use of public resources". Follow live.

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President threatens to cut ‘very popular Democrat programs’ as shutdown drags on - Trump said the hostages in Gaza will be released early next week ...

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley says the Manchester synagogue terrorist attack was "despicable" and "beyond words". Follow live.

• New details: Tyler Robinson, the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s murder, apparently confessed to the killing in a small chat group on the online platform Discord, the Washington Post reported today. • ...

A viewer complained a contributor inaccurately stated 10 million working-age British people were on out-of-work benefits. The ECU assessed whether the programme had had met the BBC’s editorial ...