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Jan 10, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Liana Walker |Barbara Miller |Jade Macmillan |Phoebe Hosier
Just a few weeks ago Sacha Strebe had taken steps to protect her Altadena home from wildfires. She cleared fuel around the property, removed vines from the house and ensured her family had an action plan. But three days ago when fires broke out in Los Angeles, with 160-kilometre-per-hour winds and no helicopters able to douse the blaze around her house, it was destroyed.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Barbara Miller
In Los Angeles there's hope a drop in wind speeds will allow firefighters to get better control over several raging fires - that have caused widespread destruction in multiple counties. The two largest fires are still entirely uncontained.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Barbara Miller
North America Correspondent Barbara Miller is on the ground in Pacific Palisades - the suburb which has felt the full force of the fires sweeping across Los Angeles.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Barbara Miller
Meta has announced a major shift in its fact-checking and moderation policy. The social media giant says independent fact-checkers will be replaced with a community notes system similar to the one used by the platform X.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Barbara Miller
In a moment heavy with symbolism members of the US congress have gathered to officially certify Donald Trump's victory in November's election. The joint session took place exactly four years after the certification of the 2020 results was violently disrupted by a mob of Trump supporters.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Brad Ryan |Barbara Miller
Under a plea deal, Mohammed Farik bin Amin and Mohammed Nazir bin Lep gave evidence against the accused mastermind of the Bali bombings, Hambali. They have now been released from the Guantanamo Bay military prison and returned to Malaysia after more than two decades in detention. Malaysia's Home Affairs Minister says the men will take part in a "comprehensive reintegration program".
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Barbara Miller
Australia has changed its long-standing position to back a resolution at the United Nations General Assembly demanding Israel bring to an end its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as rapidly as possible.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Barbara Miller
You're the president of a rich and powerful nation and your son is about to be sentenced for two crimes which potentially carry significant jail time. You think he's been more harshly treated by the system because of who he is. In your final days in office do you use your presidential powers to pardon him? It sounds like a parlour game moral dilemma, but that's the actual choice faced by the outgoing US leader Joe Biden.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Barbara Miller
There's been no public comment today from the United States president about his controversial decision to pardon his son Hunter, who was facing sentencing in two criminal cases. It was left to the White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre to defend the move amid criticism from both sides of politics.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Barbara Miller
Outgoing US President Joe Biden has raised eyebrows with a controversial residential pardon of his son, Hunter. Nick Grimm: Throughout the lead up to the US election, there was plenty of speculation about whether President-elect Donald Trump would pardon himself and the January 6th insurrectionists if he returned to the White House. But as the Republican prepares for his inauguration next month, Democrat incumbent Joe Biden has raised eyebrows with a controversial presidential pardon of his own.
