Spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt highlights US cancellation of military aid to Ukraine last year, saying situation was unfair on those killed but also Americans ‘who were footing the bill for this war ...

US politics stories from Wednesday 18 February at a glance ...

Owner calls it ‘ludicrous’ Dissent Cafe and Bar was shut down after complaint, the first in Australia’s capital since new federal hate symbol laws ...

Lawsuit is first by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over workplace DEI in Trump’s second term ...

Detectives are seeking two men as investigations continue. No arrests have been made ...

Former minister helped develop Australia’s first Aboriginal education policy in the 1980s and brings decades of expertise to embattled university ...

Avalanches have caused deaths in Lake Tahoe area in six of past 10 years but latest slide is fourth deadliest in US history ...

PM says measure, also applied to deepfake nudes, is needed owing to a ‘national emergency’ of online misogyny ...

NYU Langone’s decision comes amid Trump administration threats to cut funds to providers who treat trans youth ...

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Coalition of refugee support groups says board’s ‘traumatic’ and ‘flawed’ processes are putting children at risk ...

Kimberly Prost and Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza vow US reprisals will not affect work of international criminal court ...