Brianna Morris-Grant

Jan 11, 2025 | abc.net.au | Brianna Morris-Grant

Days before one of the largest wildfires the area has ever seen broke out in southern California, forecasters had been warning of extreme wind. Wind gusts of up to 128 kph to 160 kph in the mountains were on their way. Rain in the winter, followed by an extended period of dry air and drought, had left the hills around Los Angeles covered in an excess of parched vegetation. The area, in short, was a tinderbox. The first of multiple fires was first reported around 10am Tuesday local time.

Dec 5, 2024 | indianpolitics.co.in | Brianna Morris-Grant

By Brianna Morris-Grant The woman behind Vietnam’s largest-ever financial fraud case has lost her appeal against her death penalty sentence. Real estate tycoon Truong My Lan embezzled $US12.5 billion ($19.3 billion) — almost 3 per cent of Vietnam’s 2022 GPD. According to prosecutors at the time, the total damages caused by the fraud amounted to almost double that amount.

Nov 19, 2024 | abc.net.au | Brianna Morris-Grant

On November 3, 1994, David Smith and his wife Susan appeared on national television to plead for the return of their missing sons. Three-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander had been missing for nine days. The mother told police she had been carjacked by a black man, who drove away with the boys still in the car.

Nov 13, 2024 | abc.net.au | Brianna Morris-Grant

Billionaires, Fox News personalities, and staunch loyalists. These are the people president-elect Donald Trump has so far chosen to run the United States as part of his incoming 2025 administration. In one case, he has already created a new department — the Department of Government Efficiency, to be headed by tech entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. In his announcement, Mr Trump said the new department would drive "drastic change" from outside of government.

Nov 2, 2024 | rnz.co.nz | Brianna Morris-Grant

By Brianna Morris-Grant, ABCWhen a French supermarket placed an order at Neal's Yard Dairy in London, it seemed too good to be true. The London-based artisan cheese seller was ecstatic - the order for 22 tonnes of cheddar was one of the largest they had ever received. The sheer size of the order forced them to enlist three different cheese producers to meet the demand. But their initial reaction - that the whole thing was just too good to be true - turned out to be correct.