Politics

Charlie Hatcher, the former Tennessee agriculture commissioner backed by Governor Bill Lee, has beaten incumbent Andy Ogles by 6.6 points in the Republican primary for a redrawn 5th District where 82 per cent of voters were new to the seat.

Weeks after the Supreme Court struck down his January 2025 order, Trump has signed new directives telling four US agencies to withhold passports, Social Security numbers and citizenship documents from babies born to parents who are unlawfully or only temporarily present.

Colombia's transition periods have rarely been quiet, and this one is noisier than most.

When the federal government spends nearly $100 million on a website, Australians who rely on that site for flood warnings, planting decisions and flight safety have a reasonable expectation it will work better than what it replaced.

Canberra sets the charge digital platforms must pay Australian publishers, and separately part-pays the wages of more than 2,000 journalists. Both programs are documented in the government's own papers. Neither has been examined as half of the same arrangement.

Ten days after Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned, the Cockroach Janta Party says it will stay a pressure group rather than become a party, and Modi's BJP has started courting the young voters who forced the concession.

X banned an Australian outlet without publishing a reason. The regulatory machinery around that decision has moved further, and faster, than most people noticed.

Money flowing through America's federal research grant system does not move like a bank transfer. It moves through layers of peer review, agency priority-setting and congressional appropriation, each designed to keep politics at arm's length from the science.