President Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of allies who had allegedly supported his bid to subvert the 2020 election.
Day: November 10, 2025
Destructive winds and rainfall hit archipelago, while a cold spell in Florida prompts fears of falling iguanas
Typhoon Fung-Wong, locally known as Uwan, is the second in a week to affect the Philippines after making landfall on Sunday evening. The weather system prompted warnings for heavy rainfall and life-threatening storm surges across much of the country, with sustained winds of 115mph (185 km/h) and gusts of about 140mph recorded on Sunday by the national meteorological agency.
By the time Fung-Wong moves past the Philippines early this week, more than 200mm of rainfall is expected to have fallen on Luzon, the country’s most populous island.
Albanese says ‘old suffocating conservatism’ of Menzies era reached out of its political grave to remove a government chosen by voters
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Gough Whitlam’s dismissal was not a constitutional crisis but “a calculated plot” to remove a democratically elected government via partisan ambush, the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, says.
Reflecting ahead of Tuesday’s 50th anniversary of governor general Sir John Kerr’s move to dismiss the Labor government on 11 November 1975, Albanese has used a speech at Old Parliament House to lash the then opposition leader, Malcolm Fraser, accusing the Coalition of forming government without any “legitimate pretext”.
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- Atlanta’s airport has been hit hard by the government shutdown.
- Sean Duffy said 18 out of its 22 air traffic controllers did not turn up for work on Saturday.
- The FAA cut 10% of flights at the US’s 40 busiest airports to ensure safety during the shutdown.
Atlanta’s airport, the busiest flight hub in the country, is struggling to stay afloat during the longest government shutdown in US history.
In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that “18 of 22 controllers in Atlanta didn’t show up” for work on Saturday.
“We had 81 staffing triggers throughout the national airspace yesterday — that means controllers weren’t coming to work,” Duffy said. “To answer your question, it’s only going to get worse.”
He said that two weeks before Thanksgiving, air travel would be “reduced to a trickle” and people who want to go home to see their families might not be able to.
“Many of them are not going to be able to get on an airplane, because there are not going to be that many flights that fly, if this thing doesn’t open back up,” Duffy added.
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was the busiest airport in the world in 2024, serving more than 108 million passengers, according to a report by the Airports Council International.
Hundreds of flights have been canceled across the country daily since Friday, after Duffy announced that he would be temporarily reducing flight traffic by 10% at 40 high-traffic airports in the US.
Per the flight tracking website FlightRadar24, over the weekend, there were about 4,500 flight cancellations and more than 17,800 flight delays, within, into, or out of the United States.
The FAA told Business Insider in a statement that Duffy and the FAA’s administrator, Bryan Bedford, had reduced air traffic as a “proactive” step to keep the national airspace safe during the shutdown.
The FAA added that controllers working without pay “has resulted in increased reports of strain on the system from both pilots and air traffic controllers.”
According to a shutdown plan released by the Department of Transportation on September 30, 13,000 air traffic controllers are having to work without pay during the shutdown.
On Sunday night, lawmakers got one step closer to ending the shutdown, with the majority of the Senate voting to advance a spending package that would reopen the government.
The shutdown will not end immediately — the measure now has to be debated in the Senate and then approved by the House of Representatives.
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‘It is time to leave shit behind,’ Parton says after weeks of turmoil in the territory’s opposition
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A former commercial radio host and race-caller has been elected the new leader of the ACT Liberal opposition after a dramatic day in territory politics.
Mark Parton was elevated to the role at a party-room meeting on Monday after former leader Leanne Castley and deputy Jeremy Hanson abruptly quit their positions.