President Joe Biden announced Wednesday he would invoke the Defense Production Act to ramp up the production of baby formula.

New advice to shorten the interval between doses of AstraZeneca will speed up the vaccination rollout in Canberra as young people like Kate Balharrie bring forward their appointments for their second jabs.

This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If you want to cross the Rillito River in Tucson, Arizona, anytime between October and July, you probably won’t need a boat, a bridge, waders or even waterproof shoes. Most of the year the river […]

Some schools just opened the school year but many senior high school students are already gearing up to enter their dream universities.  One of the students’ top choices is the University of the Philippines (UP).  Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the state university has not conducted the UP College Admission Test (UPCAT) for two consecutive years. Instead, […]The post UPCAT vs UPCA Students weigh in on return of in-person entrance exams appeared first on Interaksyon.

Residents under the banner of Joshimath Bachao Sangharsh Samiti stage protest; NTPC and Hindustan Construction Company told to set up 2,000 pre-fabricated buildings to act as shelters for families

The ACT coroner has been told that mental health workers failed to follow up a plea for help from the family of 23-year-old Brontë Haskins shortly before her death.

The European Union is close to agreeing the Digital Market Act, which would require big tech firms to open up their services to wider competition

The economy is in a sweet spot, with steady growth and broad improvement in the labor market.

The EU’s newly agreed-upon Digital Markets Act could compel companies like Apple and Meta to open up iMessage and WhatsApp, making them interoperable with other messaging platforms.

This groundbreaking civil rights legislation—signed into law in 1990—was “the world's first declaration of equality for people with disabilities.”

India must keep up diplomatic pressure on Pakistan to act against terror groups

A Canberra-based Nomads gang member is charged with supplying weapons and drugs between the ACT and NSW, after being scooped up in the Operation Ironside raids.

Rishi Sunak urged to act, as landlord repossession claims also shoot up

According to a post to the Domino’s Australia Facebook page, her son’s “peers hadn’t turned up to his birthday party”, so she needed to change the order to just one pizza.

The government transplanted the same culture of fear and victimhood into the pandemic

ACT police begin removing camping equipment and illegally parked vehicles from Canberra's Parliamentary Triangle, where protesters opposed to vaccine mandates have been set up since Monday.

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said Thursday financial institutions have moved quickly to freeze the accounts of people linked to the demonstrations in Ottawa, leaving an unknown number of protesters in financial limbo.

Microscopic filaments added to the end of optical fibres act as tiny pliers that can pick up objects just tens of microns in size

Ponte City was built as a Johannesburg landmark, and became one for all the wrong reasons. Clara Wiggins goes on a tour

Brazilian CEO transformed company through series of aggressive deals

Ponte City was built as a Johannesburg landmark, and became one for all the wrong reasons. Clara Wiggins goes on a tour

A major shake up of the governance of South Australia's outback has been scrapped as the newly elected state government takes a more conservation-based approach.

As COVID-19 cases continue to pop up in ACT schools, the government announces it will extend the supply of rapid antigen tests for an additional four weeks.

Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj was canceled by Netflix after nearly 40 episodes. But despite the accolades the show picked up and how much people liked it, Patriot Act joins a long list of Netflix talk shows that were canceled.

A group of 12 to 13-year-olds had threatened to beat him up unless he carried out the humiliating act.

The Endless Frontier Act? More like the Endless Amendment Act.

With the Senate Judiciary Committee scheduled to discuss the American Innovation and Choice Online Act and the Open App Markets Act this week, Apple and Google are stepping up their opposition to both bills..

Former employees say platform embraced human curation over virality to address criticism it wasn’t doing enough to protect younger consumers

For decades, a culture of sexual abuse has been ignored. Helen Brown asks whether the conviction of R Kelly is a turning point

Businesses call for better clarity surrounding the travel rules involving the ACT and New South Wales, as government advice differs.

Rishi Sunak urged to act, as landlord repossession claims also shoot up

Fifty one vehicles in Canberra will be part of a trial — the first of its kind in Australia — to gauge how well car batteries can stabilise the electricity network against damaging surges.

The mandate is expected to be repealed as part of the National Defense Authorization Act, which is up for a vote in the House this week.

He faces up to 29 years in prison for criminal sexual act in the first degree and rape in the third degree

Stewart Barton's seemingly sudden rise has humble beginnings in the fringes of the ACT and a music program he signed up to as a schoolchild.

Compensation Act did not foresee an act of God, says Nirmala

Rather than merely paying lip service to protecting this country and the rest of the globe, the prime minister needs to step up and act

When the company said it couldn’t reveal what a driver had done wrong, he got suspicious. Was it a scam? In the end, privacy laws and bureaucracy took the blame.

Police arrest two men at an NSW-ACT border crossing as they ramp up efforts to catch people trying to flout COVID-19 rules during the lockdown.

Row over protocol on brink of full-scale bust-up, as Liz Truss says UK has ‘no choice but to act’

The House passed the Equality Act , which would eliminate the legal definition of biological sex and cater to gender ideology.

As former President Donald Trump desperately clung to power last year, and his agitated supporters violently invaded the Capitol, a number of flaws in the U.S. election system became all too clear. Thankfully, one of them may soon be fixed.

In an effort to address housing supply issues, the ACT government extends stamp duty concession for buyers purchasing an off-the-plan home of up to $600,000.

Welch disclosed that he dumped all of his individual stocks after an Insider investigation found his stock trades violated the law he had co-sponsored.

A 2005 academic paper fueled much discussion and helped her political career, but remains contested.

The CARES Act offered some flexibility to debt-addled Americans, but lenders are looking for new guidance as aid dries up, TransUnion said.

Republicans argue that the Equality Act is an attack on religious freedom and cisgender women's spaces.

Australia Post will not pick up parcels from e-commerce retailers in NSW, Victoria and the ACT for four days beginning this weekend. The organisation has 500 staff in COVID isolation.

Residents under the banner of Joshimath Bachao Sangharsh Samiti stage protest; NTPC and Hindustan Construction Company told to set up 2,000 pre-fabricated buildings to act as shelters for families

Charlie Berens’ Midwest nice act is no act.