Steve Bannon, the former White House strategist and rightwing podcast host, said he wants to see immigration agents at the polls in November, a proposal that election officials have feared. Bannon has no formal power, but is an influential figure on the far right and is closely tied with the Trump administration. One of those fears is that immigration agents will be near polling places or have a heavy footprint in Democratic areas on election day. Immigration agents, in particular, have caused people – including US citizens and otherwise legal residents – to stay home for fear of detention or racial profiling. The Department of Justice has requested and is suing to get access to the voter rolls in several states, and elections officials have fought back against the requests over privacy and security concerns.

Labor’s primary vote was unchanged at 30.5%, while the Greens were down half a point to 12.5%. On the arguably redundant two-party preferred measure, which lines Labor up against a now defunct Coalition that is actually running third, Labor leads 56-44 on respondent-allocated preferences, in from 56.5-43.5 last week. The poll was conducted last Monday to Sunday from a sample of 1401. The accompanying release also includes accumulated monthly breakdowns on primary vote and two-party preferred by state, gender and age cohort. Labor will surely have no interest in fielding a candidate, and the seat has never been strong for right-wing minor parties despite having the state’s oldest age profile.

Following that, the first of eight Australian-built Aukus submarines, based on a UK design, is slated to be in the water “in the early 2040s”. But the Congressional Research report describes an alternative “military division of labour”, under which the US would not sell any Virginia-class submarines to Australia. The first Australian-built Aukus submarine, for the Royal Australian Navy, will be in the water “in the early 2040s”. Australia will build up to eight Aukus boats, with the final vessels launched in the 2060s. Each of Australia’s nuclear submarines is forecast to have a working life of about three decades.

Tasmania’s live traffic camera network has tripled over the past two years. Greater Hobart now has 134 live traffic cameras, while Launceston and the West Tamar have 24 and the north-west coast has just four. The Department of State Growth said footage from the cameras is shared only with Tasmania Police and is not recorded or used for traffic enforcement. But despite the significant investment, Tasmania provides public access to only four legacy cameras around the Hobart CBD, a system which has remained unchanged since around 2007. State Growth said several server and system upgrades have been undertaken to support further public access to Tasmania’s camera feeds in additional locations.

Its high street, bordering the university campus, is sparsely populated with market stalls, vape shops and discount retailers, and feels unusually quiet. Just before Christmas, Essex University announced that it would close its Southend campus this summer due to a big fall in international students, who pay much higher fees. “Not just for students – for the city as a whole.”Q&A What is the Against the tide series? This was followed later by the forum – a library and art gallery shared by the university and local people. “How can you have a city without a university?” he asks.

But no-one came forward to police with the attacker's name, a court has heard. The court heard the complainant had no memory of the assault but did remember being woken up by bar security staff. The man was found to have bleeding on the brain and fractures in his eye socket, cheek and nose, along with facial bruising and swelling. With a one-quarter discount for his guilty plea, Clement was sentenced to 18 months in prison. The defendant was made subject to a restraining order banning him from contacting his victim for 10 years.

About 100 bats died at Brimbank Park in Melbourne’s north-west last week, after thousands perished earlier in January. Wildlife Victoria, which sent teams to nationally significant camps in northern Victoria, estimated more than 700 grey-headed flying foxes died at Tatura, from a camp of 5,000. View image in fullscreen When flying foxes experience heat stress they move lower down in trees, often clumping together in shady spots. Photograph: Doug Gimesy/Wildlife VictoriaTemperatures above 42C are known to cause mortality in flying foxes. Grey-headed flying foxes, listed as vulnerable under federal environment laws, continued to be most affected.

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First-half goals from Kyrell Wilson and Louie Marsh proved enough for Falkirk despite a spirited fightback from Livi in the second half – highlighted by Connor McLennan’s 47th-minute goal. The win strengthens the Bairns’ top-six credentials, now sitting eight points clear of Aberdeen while Livi remain six points adrift. That allowed Marsh to play in Wilson who duly fired across goal and beyond Jerome Prior for the opener. Falkirk players remonstrated with the officials as Liam Henderson lay injured in the box, but a VAR check saw the goal stand. Ethan Ross sent a curling effort narrowly wide before Miller rounded Prior, only to hit the goal frame with the net at his mercy.

‘Interested in backing this year’s event?’Epstein is listed as a guest or sponsor at several Edge events in the early and mid-2000s, prior to his conviction. On 18 March, following the dinner, Epstein wrote to Brockman, “your goyim dinner was amazing, . He wrote that he and his wife and business partner, Katinka Matson, were “inviting the Digerati, i.e., the usual guests at our Annual Dinner”. On 28 February, Brockman sent Epstein an invitation to that year’s iteration of the annual dinner, once again at the Blue Water Cafe in Vancouver. In October 2016, he sent an email to Epstein copying in notable AI “doomer” Eliezer Yudkowsky, writing: “Jeffrey, meet Eliezer!

RYAN TUBRIDY HAS secured another hosting position, as he is set to join the weekend line-up on Times Radio. Tubridy, who has previously hosted radio shows across Ireland and the UK, said he “couldn’t be happier” to be joining the station. Tubridy’s first show on Times Radio will air on Sunday 22 March. He has since announced a number of new projects, including a standalone YouTube series, The Late Show, which will also be broadcast on Times Radio. Tubridy is also hosting a “new and improved” and a refreshed weekend radio show across the Onic network in Ireland (which includes Dublin’s Q102, Cork’s 96FM, Limerick’s Live 95 and LMFM).

Once that drew me in, what kept me listening were the lyrics’ hard-marriage of masculinity and empathy. As a result they are, as French anthropologist Philippe Bourgois wrote about young men who joined Harlem street drug gangs in the 1980s, in search of respect, in search of being seen. His executioners had the performance of masculinity, the kind won by meting out violence and terrorising communities. On a street in Minneapolis, two versions of masculinity clashed. To the young men hesitating over what kind of man to become, in the words of the Rapture: “Well take it slow and take my hand.”

Questioned repeatedly at prime minister’s questions, Starmer said Mandelson had “betrayed our country” in his dealings with Epstein. “He lied repeatedly to my team, when asked about his relationship with Epstein before and during his tenure as ambassador,” the prime minister said. It was, however, vital to first remove documents that related to national security or could jeopardise international relations, he said. Badenoch accused the prime minister of using national security as “a red herring”, saying the Tory motion would also take account of national security. The revelations have prompted a furious backlash from across the political spectrum, including from Brown, prime minister at the time of the alleged breaches.

Keir Starmer was confronted in parliament on Wednesday by opposition leader Kemi Badenoch about the extent of his knowledge of Peter Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein. The prime minister said the former cabinet minister lied about the ‘extent and depth of the relationship’ and should not have been appointed as US ambassador. He added that Mandelson has been stripped of his role as privy counsellor, and that he would release any information about the investigation into Mandelson that would not endanger national security and international relations

Since its early stages as a medium reserved for tech-savvy users, various technological innovations have made podcasting increasingly accessible and widespread. Podcast studies have now become an established field, documenting and interrogating the potentialities of this medium, at the crossroads of various disciplines: media and cultural studies, sound studies, aesthetics, sociology, journalism studies, education, etc. Indeed, this issue of the journal InMedia aims at interrogating the formal, aesthetic, and narrative dimensions of podcasting. Narrative podcasts (fictional and nonfictional), require extensive editing, pre- and postproduction, as opposed to the relative – if only apparent – spontaneity of conversational podcasts. Finally, this issue is also interested in a more hands-on approach, where the “art of podcasting” is also understood as a craft.