The Health Department and its lawyers are still in the hotel quarantine inquiry’s firing line over their failure to produce critical documents. Counsel assisting the inquiry, in submissions published this week, said it was open for inquiry chair Jennifer Coate to conclude that the conduct of the department and its lawyers from MinterEllison had “fallen short of the applicable standards […]

THE CDC is set to slash the quarantine period in HALF from two weeks to seven days if you've been exposed to coronavirus but test negative. A senior administration official first revealed the news to the Associated Press on Tuesday. The agency is was expected to reveal the slashed coronavirus quarantine as early as Tuesday. As of early Wednesday the […]

REVEALED: Mysterious monolith in Utah desert was removed by group of four men who pushed it over, broke it up and took it away in a wheelbarrow saying ‘this is why you don’t leave trash in the desert’, eyewitness says The shiny 12-foot-tall pillar was first spotted on November 18 by Utah Department of Public Safety workers surveying bighorn sheep […]

A BLOKE was forced to sell his brand new PS5 after he lied to his wife and told her it was an air purifier. The man's failed attempt to trick his wife ended with him having to give up his brand new console, selling it for a cut price. ⚠️ Read our PS5 launch live blog for the latest news […]

A TORMENTED mum today told of her "unimaginable pain" after her partner killed their baby son by throwing him a river. Zak Bennett-Eko, 23, believed 11-month-old Zakari Bennett-Eko was "turning into the devil" before he hurled him into the River Irwell in Radcliffe. He then walked to a nearby pub as emergency crews battle to save the youngster during the […]

The Victorian Ombudsman says the Andrews government is not providing enough funding for the integrity watchdog to perform its core functions and could be perceived to be undermining the agency. Ombudsman Deborah Glass, tasked with investigating public sector wrongdoing, says her office has been allocated yearly funding about $2 million less than it spent last year, meaning it would need […]

THE world's "loneliest elephant" has been pictured tenderly touching trunks with a female for the first time in eight years after Cher's rescue mission. The lonely elephant, named Kaavan, was languishing alone in a Pakistan zoo for years – but has now been relocated to a new sanctuary in Cambodia. The 36-year-old animal had been alone, without proper socialisation with […]

The Justice Department on Monday moved to dismiss the criminal case against former White House national security advisor Michael Flynn and released the text of President Trump’s Wednesday pardon order. The pardon document expansively shields Flynn from “any and all possible offenses arising from the facts set forth … or that might arise, or be charged, claimed or asserted” from […]

US faces tougher COVID restrictions as hospitalizations rise in 41 states and hit a record 96,039: LA’s 10 million residents begin lockdown and Rhode Island goes into two-week shutdown as healthcare systems across the country reach breaking point Hospitals from Rhode Island to Alabama and Montana were beyond capacity The pandemic now has no epicenter and is rampant across the […]

Three police officers who fought to stop Bourke Street killer Hassan Khalif Shire Ali's attack say they feared for their lives as the armed man relentlessly pursued them in front of horrified shoppers before he was shot. The officers's accounts of the moments before Shire Ali was subdued just metres from his burning ute were made public for the first […]