POV: you’re Jim Chalmers using social media to sell the most ambitious budget of your life | Australian budget 2026

He’s up before sunrise, pounding the pavement in a cap and running shorts. He’s still up late into the night, having slipped into a comfortable sweater while he checks figures in a darkened office by lamplight, fuelled by sugar-free Red Bull. It’s “decision week”, Jim Chalmers declares of the annual federal budget in a video…

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Supreme court rejects Virginia Democrats’ bid to restore congressional map | Virginia

The supreme court on Friday rejected Virginia’s bid to restore a congressional map that would have given Democrats a chance to pick up four seats in the closely divided House of Representatives. The court’s order, issued without any noted dissent, is the latest twist in the nation’s mid-decade redistricting competition . It was kicked off…

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Trump says Islamic State ‘second in command’ killed by US and Nigerian forces | Islamic State

Donald Trump has said US and Nigerian forces killed the “second in command” global leader of the Islamic State. “Tonight, at my direction, brave American forces and the Armed Forces of Nigeria flawlessly executed a meticulously planned and very complex mission to eliminate the most active terrorist in the world from the battlefield,” the US…

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Joao Pedro transfer news: Barcelona sporting director Deco meets with Chelsea striker’s agent – Paper Talk | Football News

The top stories and transfer rumours from Saturday’s newspapers… PREMIER LEAGUE Barcelona sporting director Deco has travelled to London to meet with the agent of Chelsea striker Joao Pedro – Sport Anthony Gordon is close to agreeing a move to Bayern Munich and is set to sign a five-year deal at the German club –…

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