Saturday, September 26, 2026
‘Cash grab’: One Nation demands up to $630,000 from Victorian election candidates
Exclusive: Many applicants left feeling ‘used, lied to, misled and gaslit’, complaint letter seen by Guardian Australia says
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One Nation could collect as much as $633,000 from people who have put their hand up to run in the Victorian state election, with potential candidates questioning whether the party is staging a “cash grab”.
Guardian Australia has spoken to multiple former councillors, mayors and deputy mayors who expressed an interest in running for the party. They claim they went through what one called a “pay-to-play” application process, after which they were rejected.
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Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/27/one-nation-to-demand-thousands-from-victorian-election-candidates-ntwnfb
Australia news live: Albanese says announcement of Medicare hack ‘purely in national interest’
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Welcome to our Sunday live blog. Flight delays and cancellations caused frustration and heartache for some footy fans racing to make it to Saturday’s AFL grand final before the first bounce. And the PM says the timing of his announcement of OpenAI’s Medicare hack was made “purely in the national interest”. More on both those stories shortly.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/sep/27/australia-news-live-anthony-albanese-openai-medicare-hack-united-nations-richard-marles-jane-hume-liberal-coalition-one-nation-pauline-hanson-ntwnfb
Australian backlash to datacentres is faux import from US, officials say: ‘We are not the United States’
Pro-datacentre officials argue scale of Australia’s buildout is smaller, more regulated and less damaging than in US
Australian politicians and business leaders are arguing that their populace’s growing resentment of AI datacentres is an inauthentic import from the United States.
Like the US, Australia is seeing community resentment grow in response to a surge in the construction of massive AI datacentres. However, pro-datacentre officials and executives argue the scale of Australia’s buildout is smaller, more regulated and therefore less damaging than that in the US. They say the burgeoning negative reaction is being tainted and inflamed by a heated US debate that has arrived down under via social media feeds.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/26/australia-datacentre-backlash
Friday, September 25, 2026
Ex-American Idol contestant told lover he dreamed of killing wife, murder trial hears
Alleigha Botner tells court Caleb Flynn, charged with murder of wife Ashley Flynn, sent her AI love songs
The Ohio former pastor and American Idol contestant accused of fatally shooting his wife fantasized to his then lover about killing his spouse and sent her AI-generated love songs, according to evidence presented at trial this week.
Caleb Flynn, 40, is on trial for aggravated murder in connection with the 16 February shooting death of Ashley Flynn. He also is charged with two counts of felonious assault and three counts of tampering with evidence, according to a March indictment. Flynn has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/25/american-idol-contestant-accused-of-told-lover
Trump and Chinese president Xi end summit without major agreement on AI
Xi’s state visit to the US emphasized personal rapport with the US president, rather than substantial agreements to pause their respective countries’ AI arms race
Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping wrapped up their Washington summit on Friday, facing criticism that they had squandered an opportunity to pause their countries’ artificial intelligence (AI) arms race.
The three-day state visit emphasised pageantry and personal rapport rather than substantial agreements. The US president and Xi discussed the wars in Iran and Ukraine and the status of Taiwan. Their biggest policy announcement was a modest two-month extension of a trade truce.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/25/trump-xi-ai-arms-race
Nearly 200 people wrongly identified on Nevada’s voter rolls as non-citizens
State election officials said they reviewed 185 records homeland security sent them and confirmed they were US citizens
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wrongly identified 185 people on Nevada’s voter rolls as non-citizens, state officials said this week, escalating concerns over the shoddy methodology the government is using to raise fear about non-citizen voting ahead of the midterm elections.
In July, Donald Trump gave a speech saying DHS had found a combined 278,000 non-citizens on the rolls in Nevada, California, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Follow-up letters to each of those states weakened the claim, saying there only could be as many as 278,000 non-citizens on the rolls, including up to 15,903 in Nevada.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/24/dhs-nevada-voter-non-citizens-error
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