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President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order designating English as the official language of the United States, according to the White House.

The order will allow government agencies and organizations that receive federal funding to choose whether to continue to offer documents and services in a language other than English, according to a fact sheet about the impending order.

Trump had been expected to sign the order today. But by Friday night, the White House had not announced the order had been signed and did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.

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The executive order will rescind a mandate from former President Bill Clinton that required the government and organizations that received federal funding to provide language assistance to non-English speakers.

Designating English as the national language "promotes unity, establishes efficiency in government operations, and creates a pathway for civic engagement," according to the White House.

More than 30 states have already passed laws designating English as their official language, according to US English, a group that advocates for making English the official language in the United States.

For decades, lawmakers in Congress have introduced legislation to designate English as the official language of the US, but those efforts have not succeeded.

Within hours of Trump's inauguration last month, the new administration took down the Spanish language version of the official White House website.

Hispanic advocacy groups and others expressed confusion and frustration at the change. The White House said at the time it was committed to bringing the Spanish language version of the website back online. As of Friday, it was still not restored.

The White House did not immediately respond to a message about whether that would happen.

Trump shut down the Spanish version of the website during his first term. It was restored when President Joe Biden was inaugurated.

The Wall Street Journal first reported on the order on Friday.

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Analysis: The sky felt like it split over Kyiv, writes Nick Paton Walsh.

On a horizon where drones and airstrikes have killed 47 civilians in Ukraine in the past 10 days, superlatives rained: the most consequential moment in the war since Russia's invasion; the ugliest personality clash — between a 48-year-old comedian turned wartime leader and a septuagenarian billionaire turned US president; the most significant turning point in European history since 1989 or even 1945.

After Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy found himself berated for lack of gratitude on live television by US President Donald Trump and his Vice President JD Vance , Ukraine seemed immediately unsure whether to be furious at his treatment – after their collective survival of three years of Russian bombardment and savagery – at the hands of wealthy American elites, or to seek remedy in Kyiv's relationship with the ally it likely cannot endure without.

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Ukrainian military channels on Telegram fumed they would rather die on their feet, than beg on their knees. Kyiv officials exuded solidarity. But the carpet under their feet was suddenly gone.

There is "nothing we can do to fix this," a senior US official told me – adding that the fix must come from Zelenskyy. Trump-whisperer Sen. Lindsey Graham speculated Zelenskyy should fix it fast or step aside. US politicians are used to their words having an outsized impact, but today they rippled across the established norms of European security and made a continent, just about recovered from the horrific whiplash of the past 10 days, suddenly check their seatbelts again.

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Zelenskyy's task had been simple and almost complete, a draft agreement on a critical minerals deal waiting to be signed. The mood in his meeting was adequately convivial – not even derailed by his tough rhetoric on Putin. The wartime leader's wardrobe choices – a black, long-sleeved shirt that he's always worn – may not have been to Trump's liking, a US official told me, but did not overturn the apple cart. It took Vance – who often attends, but rarely speaks in, Trump's international meetings – to do that.

Misinformation is often the luxury of the privileged. The basic essentials of your life – electricity, food and water – must be in place to afford the privilege of propagating or believing untruths. When Zelenskyy was confronted with a vice-presidential lecture on Russian diplomacy – which since 2014 has openly advanced little but Moscow's military goals in Ukraine, he talked back. Well, he tried to.

When Trump later told him he had "no cards," Zelenskyy replied: "I am not playing cards." Ukrainians are not playing cards but dying in a rate less than the fantastical figures Trump keeps citing, though at an adequately horrific pace of hundreds a week, that they too want peace.

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This is the gruesome gulf between the parties in the Oval Office. On one side, a country where the facts of war are personal as they involve relatives and friends who are never coming home, and homes that will never be returned to. On the other, America's right flank feeling scorned because its aid – given to defeat a decades-long adversary at no cost of American life – had not been received with enough gratitude.

"You're not acting at all thankful. And that's not a nice thing," said Trump, as though the cost of tens of thousands of Ukrainian lives was not somehow a sign of appreciation.

Zelenskyy later said in an interview with Fox News he didn't feel he owed Trump an apology, but he thought the relationship could be salvaged.

Trump and Vance have never seen war up close, but are still disgusted by it. They seem to have felt Zelenskyy, soaked in war's horror for three years, needed a lecture about the peace anyone who had seen war would yearn for. Moneyed ignorance loudly lectured exhausted experience.

Where do we go from here? Zelenskyy has probably endured the defining moment of his presidency. He must either magically heal this rift, somehow survive without America, or else step aside and let someone else try – the last perhaps the easiest. Yet stepping down from power, as Moscow would like, could spark a crisis on the front lines, eroding political clarity, and in the legitimacy of the government in Kyiv, where parliamentary processes or flawed wartime elections would likely stumble in producing a clean successor.

There are no good choices ahead, no sure bets. Yet one thing is comforting since I came back to Kyiv. Europe's security – after three daunting weeks of the Trump administration questioning democracy and alliances across the continent – may seem in crisis from the comfortable perspective in London, or Paris, or Munich. Somehow in Kyiv after three years, the doubts feel lighter. Waves of drones come nightly here, yet the city adapts, the people endure, the lights stay on.

This resilience makes Zelenskyy's bristling at being lectured by Vance on his nation's sacrifice and peril easier to understand. As one Ukrainian civilian summarized it last night: "Dignity is also a value. If Russia cannot destroy it, why does the US think it can?"

Incoming Dilworth School trust board chair Jonathan Mason issued the apology.

A 67-year-old man has been charged with more sexual assault offences against teenagers he allegedly abused while he was a basketball coach.

Queensland police arrested the man yesterday at a home north of Brisbane.

He has been charged with four counts of indecent treatment of a child, and one count of entering a home with intent.

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Police allege the offences were committed against three youths known to the man, who were aged between 11 and 15 at the time.

The offences allegedly took place in 2006, 2023, and 2024 while the man was coaching youth basketball.

The new charges come after the same man was charged in January with a series of alleged child abuse offences.

He was earlier charged with seven counts of rape, two counts of sexual assault, and one count of grooming a child under 16.

Police alleged these offences took place between 2013 and 2017 after the man allegedly groomed a teenager by "utilising his position as a basketball coach."

The man was refused bail and is due to appear in Brisbane Magistrates Court today.

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‘It’s still in my mind, the shouting, [and begging] save us,’ witness tells Herald.

Kingda Ka, once the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world, is now a pile of rubble after it was imploded at New Jersey's Six Flags Great Adventure on Friday morning.

The implosion happened ahead of schedule at the park in Jackson Township.

Earlier, the Ocean County prosecutor's office posted on Facebook warning residents that they may hear "a series of rapid explosions" coming from the theme park in Jackson Township Friday between 9-10 am.

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There's no reason to be alarmed, the post said, but residents were told to take precautions for people and pets who are sensitive to loud noises.

Six Flags retired the coaster, which opened in 2005, to make room for new rides, the company said late last year.

Both the tallest and fastest coaster in the world when construction was complete, Kingda Ka launched riders to a top speed of 205 km/h.

The height record held through its lifetime, but the speed record was broken by Formula Rossa, a coaster at Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

The coaster opened in 2010 and boasts a top speed of 239 km/h.

Kingda Ka has carried more than 12 million riders since it opened in 2005, Six Flags said.

The Twister and Parachute Tower rides and The Sky Way, an elevated cable car, are also being removed from the park.

The park is also set to debut the long-awaited The Flash: Vertical Velocity coaster this year, which would be the world's first super boomerang roller coaster.

The company also says a "multi-world-record-breaking launch roller coaster" will open in 2026.

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They shall grow not old and age shall not weary them – but no one escapes bureaucracy.

A remarkable shouting match broke out in the Oval Office on Friday between President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy, an extraordinarily fractious display that only underscored the deeply uncertain future of American assistance to Kyiv.

Never before has an American president berated his visitor like Trump did to Zelensky, leading to an almost real-time breakdown in relations between Washington and Kyiv. Trump at one point threatened to give up on Ukraine entirely.

Zelenskyy and his delegation were told to leave the White House following the testy meeting, according to a White House official who was not authorised to speak publicly.

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Heated back-and-forth exchange

Castigating Zelenskyy for not demonstrating enough gratitude for American support, Trump and his Vice President JD Vance raised their voices, accusing the besieged leader of standing in the way of a peace agreement.

"You're not really in a good position right now." Trump said. "You're gambling with World War III."

At one moment, Vance accused Zelenskyy of being "disrespectful" toward his American hosts.

"You're not acting all that thankful," Trump added.

"Have you said 'thank you' once?" Vance asked Zelenskyy.

Afterward, Trump and Zelenskyy left the Oval Office and went to separate rooms. Trump ordered the Ukrainians be told to leave, according to a White House official.

A scheduled joint press conference was scrapped and Zelenskyy departed the White House in his black SUV without signing a planned agreement on providing US access to Ukraine's rare earth minerals. Trump posted online that his counterpart was not welcome back until he was "ready for peace."

Now, Zelenskyy will leave Washington with the fate of his country, and his own future as its leader, in doubt.

Ahead of his arrival, Trump had already voiced open hostility toward Zelenskyy, whom he termed a dictator. Yet he seemed to moderate his tone a day earlier, declining to repeat the criticism.

But the tense 10-minute exchange in the Oval Office went well beyond any of the usual diplomatic rifts, allowing the gulf between the men to play out publicly in front of television cameras. It was about as angry as Trump has ever allowed himself to be seen in public.

"You're either going to make a deal or we're out," the US president said, adding later: "If we're out, you'll fight it out. I don't think it will be pretty."

Vance, who has often sat silently in Oval Office meetings during the opening weeks of his vice presidency, sparked the tension with the visiting Ukrainian leader. Before joining Trump on the ticket last year, the freshman Ohio senator was among the loudest GOP critics of assistance to Ukraine – skepticism that he has carried into the White House.

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The fiery exchanges on Friday served as a stark example of the dramatic whiplash in American foreign policy since Trump and Vance assumed office last month. The tensions escalated dramatically during a session that began with a series of pleasantries as Trump waxed aloud about his legacy.

"I hope I'm going to be remembered as a peacemaker," Trump said as he looked ahead to the prospect of finalising a broader peace deal with Russia and Ukraine.

But the acrimony that exploded into full view raised questions about the prospects of reaching a peaceful solution, raising fresh alarm across Europe, where leaders have worked for weeks to warn Trump of Russian President Vladimir Putin's past actions and potential future intentions with Ukraine.

Again and again, Trump has sided with Putin. But with voices raised in the Oval Office, Trump unleashed years of pent-up frustration toward Russia and Ukraine, which led to his first impeachment.

"Let me tell you, Putin went through a hell of a lot with me," Trump said. "He went through a phony witch hunt where they used him and Russia, Russia, Russia."

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Trump responds after exchange

After the heated meeting, Trump said in a Truth Social post that Zelenskyy could come back to the White House "when he is ready for peace."

"We had a very meaningful meeting in the White House today. Much was learned that could never be understood without conversation under such fire and pressure," he said.

"It's amazing what comes out through emotion, and I have determined that President Zelenskyy is not ready for Peace if America is involved, because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations. I don't want advantage, I want PEACE. He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office. He can come back when he is ready for Peace."

For the sake of diplomacy, it was a catastrophic end to a week that began on a hopeful note at the White House, where French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer visited in hopes of paving the way to a security agreement with Ukraine.

Trump's meetings with the pair of European leaders were awash in pleasantries to prepare him for his one-on-one session with Zelenskyy, which ended as no one could have imagined.

"I've empowered you to be a tough guy," Trump said to the Ukrainian leader. "I don't think you'd be a tough guy without the United States."

Speaking with reporters after a TV hit at the White House, top Trump ally Senator Lindsey Graham said Zelensky "either needs to resign and send somebody over that we can do business with, or he needs to change."

"What I saw in the Oval Office was disrespectful, and I don't know if we can ever do business with Zelensky again. I think most Americans saw a guy that they would not want to go into business with. The way he handled the meeting, the way he confronted the president was just over the top," Graham said.

Graham said he had spoken to Zelenskyy Friday morning.

"Don't take the bait," Graham said. "President Trump was in a very good mood last night."

But Democrats placed the blame on Trump and Vance.

Senator Jack Reed, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, called the meeting "a political ambush" and "a shameful failure of American leadership" in a statement.

The Rhode Island Democrat said that "today's cruel and callous display does great harm to US standing in the world. Trump and Vance are communicating to the world that the United States is not to be trusted. Adversaries and allies alike will take note."

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Australia has sweltered through a hotter-than-average summer, but although autumn is now under way, the next three months are unlikely to provide much respite.

The Bureau of Meteorology has now released its long-range weather forecast for March through to May, detailing what kind of rainfall and temperatures you can expect for autumn.

Here's what you need to know.

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Temperatures

For most of the country, unusually warm temperatures are on the cards.

"While autumn is often a time for cooler weather to begin, this season is very likely to be warmer than average across Australia and summer heat may persist into early autumn," the BoM said earlier this week.

The Bureau says every single state and territory is either "likely" or "very likely" to experience warmer-than-normal temperatures.

Its forecasts show a huge portion of the country has a 50 per cent chance or more of going through one of the hottest autumns on record, with maximums reaching the top 20 per cent of historical observations.

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Meanwhile, almost the entire country has at least an 80 per cent chance of recording above-average maximum temperatures this autumn.

Rainfall

While temperatures are likely to be hotter than normal this autumn, the amount of rainfall is expected to be more in line with historical averages.

"Rainfall is likely to be in the typical range for the season for most of Australia," the BoM said.

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But there's a bit of a mixed bag for the northern states and territories.

Far North Queensland is set for a dry autumn, while Western Australia's Kimberley and Pilbara regions could be wetter than average.

"For parts of the far north-west of the country, there is a chance of above average rainfall," the Bureau said.

"It's also likely to be drier than usual for most of Queensland except for southern and south-east areas.

"Tropical cyclones, tropical lows, storms and active monsoon bursts are still possible in the north over the coming months, which can bring particularly heavy rain."

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Bushfires

Peak bushfire season for much of Australia might be over, but there are still parts of the country with a heightened fire risk for autumn.

The National Council for Fire and Emergency Services (AFAC) says areas on the southern coast will experience have elevated danger levels over the next three months.

"The same dry conditions that have seen recent fires in Victoria and in Western Australia look set to continue across much of the southern coastline of mainland Australia," AFAC chief executive Rob Webb said.

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"It means that the fire season in these areas may go a little longer this year.

"Local fire authorities across Australia are monitoring bushfire risk this season so you can be ready to act if there is an emergency. Many agencies will also commence prescribed burning throughout autumn to help mitigate risk for the coming months and years."

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