We will never forget, never forgive.

 

Dr Ruth Gottesman's billion dollar donation

 

At 93, Dr. Ruth Gottesman donated her late husband David Gottesman's $1 billion fortune to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, making tuition free forever for all students.

Loosening federal regulations on marijuana

 

U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as he signs an executive order recommending loosening the federal regulations on marijuana, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 18, 2025.

REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

Sydney, Australia

St Mary’s Cathedral illuminated with a menorah during a light show in tribute to victims of the Bondi attack.

Photograph: Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images

New name for John F Kennedy Center

 

People walk along the front of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, after Karoline Leavitt announced that the Kennedy Center board decided to rename the institution the Trump-Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 18, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Local volunteer lifeguards unite for 1 minute silence at Bondi for those lost on Sunday

 

 

Soon after 8am yesterday (Saturday), volunteer lifeguards from two local surf lifesaving clubs lined the shore of Bondi beach and observed one minute silence for those lost last Sunday.

Three Sydney Heroes

 

Bondi beach hero Ahmed Al-Ahmed with the doctors looking after him at the hospital in Sydney. And… The doctors are *also* Syrian! Tamer Al-Kahil from Homs. Anas Natfaji from Aleppo. *Three* heroes.

Ahmad Al-Ahmad remains in hospital

 

Sydney man, a 43 year old Ahmad Al-Ahmad remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand. This hero tackled the Bondi gunman and took his riple, saving multiple lives and after a GoFundMe page was set up for him, he was presented with a cheque for $2,533,000.

There was a false rumour circulating that he was a Christian Mennonite.

Not true, he is a Syrian Muslim.

Matilda Poltavchenko killed in Bondi massacre

 

10 year old Matilda Poltavchenko was murdered on Bondi beach by monsters. Just for being Jewish. Her aunt said: “I don’t know how we survive such grief.” Unending pain.

Mourners gather at Bondi Pavillion

 

North Carolina Governor signs "Iryna's Law"

Democrat Gov Josh Stein says "Iryna's Law" prohibits cashless bail for some violent crimes and for most repeat offenders, it limits the discretion magistrates and judges have in making pretrial release decisions;  allows for the state chief justice to suspend magistrates and requires more defendants to undergo mental health evaluations.

Iryna Zarutska, 23, was killed on Aug. 22, and Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr. who had been arrested more than a dozen times, including an armed robbery charge for which he served five years in prison before the fatal train stabbing, has been charged with first-degree murder.

"The blood of this innocent woman can literally be seen dripping from the killer’s knife, and now her blood is on the hands of the Democrats who refuse to put bad people in jail, including Former Disgraced Governor and ‘Wannabe Senator’ Roy Cooper," Trump wrote on Truth Social after the attack. 

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Trump revokes temporary legal status for Venezuelan immigrants

The Supreme Court on Friday paved the way for the Trump administration to revoke temporary legal status for up to 600,000 Venezuelan immigrants, meaning some could ultimately be deported.

The court granted an emergency request filed by the Trump administration seeking to block a judge's ruling that said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem failed to follow the correct process in revoking Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans.

Hamas to release all hostages, dead or alive

US President Trump has told Israel to immediately stop bombing Gaza after Hamas agreed to some terms of his 20-point peace plan.

Hamas said it was prepared to release all Israeli hostages, both alive or dead, under the terms of Trump's Gaza proposal.

The group also reiterated its agreement to hand over the administration of the Gaza Strip to an independent Palestinian body.

The US president said "this is a very special day" and thanked other countries for their assistance in the peace proposal.

Hamas is shooting people deliberately

 

Testimonies reveal that Hamas seeks to disrupt the districution of food packages at the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution sites.

The GHF disclosed on Monday that Hamas had placed bounties on American security workers in the enclave, and that 12 of the organization's local staff members had been murdered by Hamas. 

Elon Musk's new America Party

 

 

 

Elon Musk warns that if this insane spending bill passes, the America Party will be formed the next day.

Trump's Big Beauiful Bill is taking forever

 

Senate staffers rest on the U.S. Capitol steps at sunrise as Republican lawmakers struggle to pass U.S. President Donald Trump's sweeping spending and tax bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 1, 2025.

Photograph: Nathan Howard/Reuters

US will stop funding Vaccine Alliance

 

This week, RFK Jr announced the US would stop funding the global vaccine alliance, Gavi - the Vaccine Alliance that helps vaccinate more than half the world’s children against deadly infectious diseases.

GAVI says it has helped vaccinate more than 1.1 billion children in 78 low-income countries since its founding in 2000, preventing 18.8 million future deaths.

Ex cop Kristian White

 

Ex cop Kristian White 35, was found guilty of manslaughter last year and handed a two year good behaviour bond and ordered to complete community service.

He Tasered a 95-year-old woman at a nursing home in Cooma who later died in hospital.

A real hero.

Tehran, Iran

 

A security guard stands on a street, during early hours of ceasefire, in Tehran, Iran, June 24, 2025.

Six reasons why nuclear power is bad for Australia

 

Looks like we won't be getting nuclear power any time soon.

Six reasons why nuclear power is bad for Australia: Costs, Risks and Delays.

Six reasons why nuclear power is… | Australian Conservation Foundation

NATO agrees to 5% GDP

Nato leaders have agreed to ramp up defence spending to 5% of their countries' economic output by 2035, following months of pressure from Donald Trump.

The Spanish prime minister (far right) appeared to stand by himself in the Nato "family photo".

NSW MP Gareth Ward's sexual abuse trial

A court has heard NSW state MP Gareth Ward's alleged sexual abuse victim was spurred to action after learning the politician had been appointed as families minister, which he likened to a vampire running a blood bank.

He is accused of inviting a drunk 18 year old man -who was 17 at the time they met - to his South Coast home in February 2013.

The man told the jury Ward plied him with drinks before indecently assaulting him three times in one night.

Coal Plants Worldwide

 

Trump's message to the Senate

 

Ivanka Trump's family on way to Bezos wedding in Venice

Ivanka Trump walks with her children and husband at the airport, before getting into a water taxi, ahead of the wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, in Venice, Italy.

REUTERS/Yara Nardi

NATO Summit

The Hague, Netherlands

A service staff sets a table as preparations are underway in the Oranjezaal ballroom in the royal palace Huis ten Bosch for the NATO dinner that King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands are offering to participating heads of government.

NATO Summit

 

The allies are likely to endorse spending 5% of GDP for their defence at the NATO Summit today.

Apart from Spain, Britain, France, Germany and the Netherlands are all on board.

NATO leaders believe Russia could attack a NATO state in the future if not stopped in Ukraine.

Private Health Insurance dilemma

New role for Elon Musk

 

President Trump is open to appointing Elon Musk to a new position after his 'special government employee' designation expires.

"Elon is fantastic, he's a patriot," Trump told reporters, adding Musk can stay at the White House "as long as he'd like" and that he personally wants him to stay "as long as possible."

Source:  Fox News

 

New York University caves to President Trump's threat

 

President Donald Trump threatened to cut $400 million in federal grants to Colombia University for "continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students."

Interim president Katrina Armstrong, issued a letter on Friday that said the university takes the cuts "very seriously" and is prepared to work with the government on its "legitimate concerns."

Man with the golden arm dies

 

James Harrison, the ‘man with the golden arm’, whose rare blood saved 2.4m babies, has died at age 88.  His blood contained precious anti-D, used to make medication for at-risk newborns. 

Photograph: Australian Red Cross

 

ICE officers raid Kebab shop in New Jersey

 

ICE officers raided the Kebab restaurant in New Jersey and arrested, Emine Emanet and her husband, Celal Emanet, who moved to the US from Turkey in 2008 on an R1 visa.

"No Other Land" wins Academy Award for best documentary

 

“No Other Land,” which chronicles Israel’s demolitions in the Palestinian West Bank village of Masafer Yatta, won the Academy Award for best documentary feature on Sunday night.

 Israel’s culture minister bemoaned the win as a “sad moment.”

Zelenskyy gets better reception in London

 

European leaders during a summit on Ukraine at Lancaster House in London. 

Photograph: Christophe Ena/EPA

Nathan Cleary stole the show in Las Vagas

 

Nathan Cleary stole the show in Las Vegas yesterday, leading from the front in the Panthers’ 28-22 win over the Sharks at Allegiant Stadium.   

He met up with Mary Fowler who was in California with the Matildas for a 24-hour catch-up before he flew back to Vegas to re-join his Panthers team.

A live-fire exercise carried out by China's navy 280km east of Sydney

 

Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong raised Australia's expectations around "safe and professional military conduct" with her Chinese counterpart, Wang Li, on the sidelines of G20 in Johannesburg, South Africa. 

Source: Getty / Per-Anders Pettersson