Search continues for VA couple presumed dead in Caribbean, state department says they're monitoring ..read more

Dr Phil has stunned hosts of ‘The View’ after he criticised school closures during the coronavirus pandemic. Dr Phil spoke of the lasting effects of the lockdowns on students and how the support system for vulnerable children was removed. “Who does that? Who takes away the support system for these children? Who takes it away and shuts it down,” he said. Dr Phil then spoke about the further dangers children who were sexually assaulted faced when facing the possibility of being locked up with their abusers. “And by the way, when they shut it down, they stopped the mandated reporters from being a ..read more

Victor Wembanyama is the real deal ..read more

Institute of Public Affairs’ Daniel Wild has questioned the Canadian government’s decision to include in its extra support to war-torn Ukraine a gender-inclusive diversity project. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced he would be supporting Ukraine with an additional $4 million for a ‘gender-inclusive demining for sustainable futures in Ukraine’. The project also includes establishing a gender and diversity working group to promote gender transformative mine action in Ukraine. “It’s difficult to know what’s woke and what’s a joke these days, because the further you go down this rab ..read more

Victorians living in a fire-risk zone are being urged to leave ahead of what is feared may be the worst bushfire day in years, with temperatures set to soar to the mid-40s in parts of the state ..read more

Institute of Public Affairs’ Daniel Wild says people in New York are starting to have “serious reservations” about migration in the United States. Mr Wild joined Sky News host Rita Panahi to discuss the ongoing border crisis in the US. “I know Trump has said that he’s considering doing a campaign event in New York City,” he said. “Now I don’t think he can necessarily win New York state at the next election but it shows you how bad things must be in the US. “This gets to the bigger issue – we’re seeing this in Australia and across Western nations, which is when communities don’t feel like they ..read more

The Australian Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan says pop star Taylor Swift has been an “extraordinary popular culture phenomenon". Mr Sheridan said the singer makes joy, niceness and wholesomeness “part of her appeal”. “It’s an extraordinarily popular success,” he told Sky News Australia. “It’s something young people don’t feel ashamed to have their mum and dad at the concert with them. “She doesn’t have a chip on her shoulder … for popular culture to abandon just for a moment it’s reflex hostility to the society, and instead to be celebrating the individual within. “I think she’s a terrific force ..read more

Austin police said Army veteran Warnero Young was shot and killed at random by a naked man in South Austin. Crime Watch reporter Meredith Aldis has the details ..read more

A ransomware attack in October took many of the Toronto Public Library’s services offline for months. CBC’s Anya Zoledziowski breaks down the library’s efforts to rebuild its services and examines why hackers may have targeted it in the first place ..read more

An unopened case of 1979-1980 O-Pee-Chee brand hockey cards, which could contain Wayne Gretzky's rookie card, has sold at auction for more than $5 million ..read more