After recovering from a life-threatening stroke, a fame-hungry musical comedian contends with a worse fate: She might just be average.

Bubba Weiler’s new play about two altar boys at a crossroads includes several beautiful performances, even when the line between sweetness and treacle blurs.

The groundbreaking ceremony for the data center in Piketon, Ohio, in March. The financing for the project is indicative of the elaborate deals that have helped fuel the A.I. boom.

Allan says a One Nation-Liberal coalition is the biggest risk to the state. Follow updates live Jacinta Allan resigns as Victorian premier before leadership challenge by Ben Carroll Who is Ben Carroll? Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast ACTU president says now is the ‘right time’ to leave Michele O’Neil, the president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, said it’s the “right time” to leave after she announced her departure alongside ACTU secretary Sally McManus. We thought about this and we just think that it’s time for renewal. The union movement is in good shape. We’ve seen changes in workers’ rights that have made a big difference in workers’ lives. We’ve se

Audio recordings that former President Joe Biden fought for years to keep private have now been released.

The government wants pupils to take subjects like AI and manufacturing which are linked to local jobs.

El-Sayed says in TV debate ‘ogre on a pike’ Zoom comment was in reference to John Fetterman, not Haley Stevens The Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said his comments that progressives need to put the head of an “ogre” on a pike was in reference to US Senator John Fetterman – not his opponent, Haley Stevens. In a televised debate on Monday, the final head-to-head before the state’s 4 August primary, the moderator asked El-Sayed whether he regretted his comments made in a Zoom meeting, in which he said, according to leaked audio published by Politico: “Ideally you put one ogre on a pike, and then everyone else gets the message, and all of a sudden starts to sound a lot diffe

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Trump said he thinks his defense secretary ‘has done a great job’ Sign up for the Breaking News US email Donald Trump said ⁠today that ⁠he had paused US strikes on Iran to give diplomacy another chance, but he ​was ‌ready ‌for “strong military ‌action” if diplomacy fails. Washington was in “very deep ⁠talks with Iran”, the president told Axios, but, he added: “If they don’t work out, we will be go back to very strong military action.” I am going to talk to Bibi about the fact that if I weren’t president, Iran would have had nuclear weapons by now and Israel would have been destroyed. Without me, there would be no Israel. Continue reading...

President Trump is downplaying concerns about dwindling defense stockpiles after months of on-and-off fighting with Iran. Bradley Bowman, senior director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' Center on Military and Political Power, joins with analysis.