• Associated Press

    Australia plans to send aid to Papua New Guinea as rain raises safety fears at deadly landslide site

    Australia prepared on Monday to send aircraft and other equipment to help at the site of a deadly landslide in Papua New Guinea as overnight rains in the South Pacific nation’s mountainous interior raised fears that the tons of rubble that buried hundreds of villagers could become dangerously unstable. Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles said his officials have been talking with their Papua New Guinea counterparts since Friday, when a mountainside collapsed on Yambali village in Enga province, which the United Nations estimates killed 670 people. “The exact nature of the support that we do provide will play out over the coming days,” Marles told Australian Broadcasting Corp.

  • Associated Press

    Libertarians nominate Chase Oliver for president, spurning both Trump and Kennedy

    The Libertarian Party on Sunday nominated party activist Chase Oliver for president, rejecting former President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after they each spoke at the party's convention. Third parties have rarely been competitive in U.S. presidential elections and the Libertarian candidate four years ago won 1% of the vote. Trump appeared Saturday night in Washington at the convention to give a speech that was repeatedly booed by many in the room.

  • The Daily Beast

    ‘The Jinx—Part Two’ Damns Everyone in Its Bleak Finale

    HBOAndrew Jarecki’s original 2015 docuseries The Jinx was about whether Robert Durst killed three different people: his first wife Kathie, who went missing in 1982; his best friend Susan Berman, who was executed in 2000; and his neighbor Morris Black, whom he admitted to dismembering in 2001. The Jinx—Part Two, meanwhile, has to this point been about his arrest and trial, both of which have long been public record. Consequently, unlike its predecessor, it hasn’t been building to a jaw-dropping b