Chancellor to duck welfare reform in today's Budget and boosts handouts to 10 MILLION people
John Healey will not curb runaway welfare spending despite growing pressure on the public finances. Instead, he is expected to increase the tax burden to the highest level on record to help boost handouts.
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US will issue visa to Flavio Bolsonaro and his family after he fled Brazil following election loss... as he defies order to give up his passport
The United States will issue Flávio Bolsonaro a visa after he fled Brazil following his devastating loss to incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Sunday's election.
Nepalese Australian delivers blunt warning on the ABC over 'huge' migrant numbers: 'It stresses everything'
A Nepalese Australian has warned that rapid population growth is making it harder for new arrivals to understand the country's identity.
Ministers to be forced to name and shame China for cyber attacks on the UK after Government, which doesn't want to point finger at Beijing, lost Lords battle
Labour peers voted against an amendment on Monday to the Cyber Security and Resilience bill requiring the Government to keep a log of foreign states targeting British networks.
Gunman on the run after man is shot dead on Melbourne street
Homicide detectives are treating the man's death in Melbourne's north as suspicious.
Grand jury declines to indict Cassidy Hutchinson over testimony about Trump's actions on Jan 6
The Justice Department opened a federal criminal investigation into Hutchinson earlier this year, a probe initiated by then-AG Pam Bondi just weeks before she departed the agency.
No clear winner in Israeli general election: Exit polls predict Netanyahu's party to win most seats but rival bloc 'will be bigger and could still oust him'
The latest polls published on Friday ahead of today's voting suggest the 77-year-old, who has been in power for four years, is almost neck-and-neck with his main rival Gadi Eisenkot.
Sinister new details reveal how the family of teenage girl gunned down in boxing night drive-by shooting was previously targeted in a mystery attack at their home
Vana-Reese Schuster-Togiatau, 19, remains in a critical condition after being shot in the face outside Fitzy's in Loganholme, south of Brisbane, on Saturday night.
Two Scottish politicians refused entry to West Bank after their group 'failed to co-operate and gave false information', claim Israelis
Two Scots politicians were refused entry to the West Bank because their group failed to cooperate with border guards and gave them false information, it has been claimed.
Starc rips out Coetzee's stumps with peach delivery
Mitchell Starc turned the Test match around for Australia.
Aussie voter on the ground in Israel
Lynda Ben-Menashe, president of the National Council of Jewish Women Australia, travelled to Israel to cast her vote.
Once-thriving hotel now full of empty rooms is a symbol of Democrat failure as Baltimore's bungling leadership ensures Americans keep their distance
Baltimore taxpayers are still on the hook for a massive hotel debt after a city-owned Hilton suffered its worst financial year on record, despite charging guests more than ever.
Thomas Markle's granddaughter says 'something was off' about him... and 'she recalls her grandmother writing a letter' as she speaks out in wake of child sex image allegations
Thomas Markle's granddaughter Noelle Rasmussen said the child sex allegations he faces are 'not a surprise', adding that she always felt there was 'something off' about him.