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By Jack Queen, Reuters Elon Musk awarded Kristine Fishell with a $1 million cheque during a town hall at the Roxain Theater on 20 October in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Photo: AFP / Getty Images / Michael Swensen Elon Musk has been ordered to attend a Friday (NZT) hearing in a prosecutor's lawsuit to block the billionaire's US$1 million-a-day (NZ$1.68m) giveaway to registered swing state voters ahead of the U.S. election on 5 November. The hearing before Judge Angelo Foglietta concerns Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner's bid to halt the giveaway less than a week before the tightly contested U.S. presidential election between Republican former president Donald Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris. Krasner, who championed progressive causes when running for distri...

By Zachary B Wolf for CNN From left: Robert F Kennedy Jr, Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Photo: AFP Analysis: For much of the presidential campaign, former president Donald Trump worked to distance himself from Project 2025, the detailed game plan written by conservative activists for a second Trump term. Whether or not his allies will try to implement portions of the controversial plan if he wins the 2024 election is still the topic of some debate. But there is an equally radical and expansive government reformation plan coming out of Trump's own mouth, in which heterodox figures like Robert F Kennedy Jr would be given free rein to "go wild" on the health safety system and Elon Musk would be enabled to, as the tech billionaire said, "start from scratch" with the federal workforce. So w...

US vice president Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump are both campaigning hard in the final days of the election campaign, particularly in the pivotal states. Harris will speak at events in North Carolina this morning before heading to a campaign event at the University of Wisconsin where artists Gracie Abrams, Mumford & Sons and Remi Wolf will perform. Trump was also speaking at a rally in North Carolina today before heading to Wisconsin where he and former NFL quarterback Brett Favre will speak. US president Joe Biden has landed in hot water over his own comments after he appeared to refer to Donald Trump's supporters as "garbage". Follow RNZ's latest coverage here: Source link

An image released by Australian Federal Police of some of the 52 packages labelled as green tea, which turned out to contain methamphetamine Photo: Australian Federal Police A New Zealand woman has been arrested at Sydney Airport after she was caught trying to smuggle 52kg of methamphetamine into Australia. The woman, 23, had been on a flight from Singapore on Monday. She was arrested at Sydney Airport with a New South Wales woman after border officials found 52 packages in luggage labelled as Chinese tea. The packages contained about 1kg of a white substance; initial testing indicated a positive result for methamphetamine. Both women were charged with importing a commercial quantity of a border-controlled drug. They appeared in the Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney on 29 October and...