On Sept. 12, the U.S. Census Bureau released national poverty data for 2017. The headline was that 39.7 million people were poor in 2017. This works out to 12.3 percent of the population or one in eight Americans.
A 23-year-old man from western Sydney and a 21-year-old woman from Victoria have died at a hospital after collapsing at the Penrith music festival.
Strawberry contamination has expanded to six brands.
American romance novel author Nancy Crampton-Brophy is accused of killing her husband in a kitchen.
The woman, 28-year-old Melissa Thompson, said Weinstein raped her after a business meeting in 2011.
Pope Francis appears to be finally doing something about the child abuse scandal that has plagued the Catholic Church for so long.
A US man’s freedom has been spared after the discovery of a Labrador that had supposedly been killed.
Packed strawberries sold in Woolworths have been recalled after sewing needles were found in them.
Primary student Harper Nielsen was initially disciplined by teachers for saying “Advance Australia Fair” was written for white people only.
n Wednesday, the Brisbane Supreme Court ordered Jones and two radio stations to pay $3.7 million for 27 broadcasts conveying “extremely serious and the gravest kind” defamatory allegations.
Meanwhile, Nike’s sales jumped by 31 percent despite threats of boycott.
He told the crowd the time he got kicked out of Disneyland for smoking cigarettes.
A high school student who has become viral online for his animated facial expressions during Donald Trump’s rally has been identified.
The royal couple will also visit Fiji and the Kingdom of Tonga starting next month.
Jeffrey Winder was fined US$1 (AU$1.41).
The men were members of different gangs — the Mongols, Nomads and Bandidos — in South Australia and Queensland.
British Airways is investigating a massive customer data breach from its website and mobile app.
The frontbencher said the Morrison government should consider adopting quotas to boost the number of women in the party.
Vernon Unsworth was instrumental in rescuing the missing Thai boys and their coach who got trapped in an underground cave network.
The Australian prime minister was responding to a newspaper article about teachers being trained to identify transgender children in the classroom, which he thought was unnecessary.
The Australian Paramedics Association NSW apologised on Wednesday for suggesting the family of 25-year-old Hamze Ibrahim was responsible for his death.
In his first policy backdown since becoming Australia’s prime minister, Morrison said the plan to increase the pension age from 65 was “gone.”
Negotiations for a revised North American Free Trade Agreement have been ongoing for more than a year, but now it’s crunch time — especially for Canada.
Obama, however, got along well with other former PMs Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Turnbull and Julia Gillard.
The American couple who kept the hundreds of thousands of dollars GoFundMe donation to a homeless man has been ordered to give him the money.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison wasn’t exactly bothered by the Asian country’s move, though.
For a brief moment last week, US President Donald Trump served a useful purpose. He reminded us how important race is as an economic and political issue on much of the planet.
Australia, meanwhile, has reportedly derailed her scheduled engagements in the country.
Malcolm Turnbull officially resigned from Parliament on Friday.
One of the “Fappening” hackers who leaked Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities’ nude photos has been jailed.