Donald Trump's face will be placed on some American passports, the US State Department has announced.

The president's face and signature in gold text will be on the inside cover of passports marking the 250th anniversary of the United States.

"As the United States celebrates America's 250th anniversary in July, the State Department is preparing to release a limited number of specially designed US Passports to commemorate this historic occasion," a statement from the State Department read.

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"These passports will feature customised artwork and enhanced imagery while maintaining the same security features that make the US Passport the most secure documents in the world."

The edition with Trump's face will become the default passport issued at the Washington Passport Agency.

People who don't want that specific passport will have to apply for another option online or go to another city to get one.

Democrats in Congress were critical of the new passport.

"Almost everything Trump does is to serve his own ego, not the American people," Representative Don Beyer said.

"Ever the path of a narcissist," said Representative Mike Quigley.

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Trump has repeatedly sought to rename things after himself throughout his second term in office.

He renamed the John F. Kennedy Memorial Centre for the Performing Arts to be called the Trump Kennedy Centre.

A 24-karat gold coin bearing Trump's image will be made by the US Mint this year.

He also renamed the nonprofit Institute for Peace after himself, after sacking most of its board.

Passes to national parks will also bear the president's image.

And today a six-metre tall golden statue of Trump was unveiled at his golf course in Doral, Florida.

He also froze billions in federal funding for infrastructure projects in the northeast of the US, then reportedly told top Democrat Chuck Schumer he would unfreeze it if Penn Station was renamed after him.

Penn Station is the main train station in New York City.

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Yesterday Democratic Representative Jerrold Nadler introduced legislation which would ban federal buildings being named after Trump.

"Donald Trump is a convicted felon, a twice impeached president, and America's chief insurrectionist. His name is unfit to honour our nation's buildings," he said.

"I am proud to introduce this bill to stop Donald Trump from using taxpayer-funded buildings for his personal vanity projects, because New Yorkers deserve public spaces that they can respect, not monuments to tyranny and corruption."

Trump himself is yet to comment on the passport.

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A new AI tool that could slash GP wait times could be coming to a doctors' office near you, but is it just a more powerful version of 'Dr Google'?

Not quite, according to Dr Michael Wright, President of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP).

Australian GPs have been relying on search engines to stay across the latest medical information for years and clinical AI platforms are just the latest tools in their arsenal.

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"GPs, like everyone else, are really having a close look at AI and trying to work out where it can help us be more efficient, get better information and provide better care," he told nine.com.au.

"But it's certainly not something that anyone should feel like is being forced upon them."

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There are more signs an El Niño weather pattern is developing in the Pacific Ocean, raising the likelihood of warmer and drier winter for large parts of Australia.

Ocean temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean have rapidly warmed towards El Niño levels over past weeks, reports weather channel Weatherzone.

New data shows the seas have warmed swiftly this month, rising by 0.5 degrees in the past two weeks, and 0.3 degrees in just one week.

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El Niño — the climate condition when seas are unusually warm — can upturn regular weather patterns in winter and spring.

Research over the past months has pointed to this year's El Niño becoming one of the most powerful on record, with forecasters predicting it could reach a "super" level.

But experts say the ocean warming will have to gather further strength over several more months for it to become an official El Niño event.

Another component of El Niño is how the atmospheric temperature responds to a warming ocean.

Forecasters say the air above the tropical Pacific Ocean is now showing signs of the weather pattern.

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"The 30-day Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) – a measure of atmospheric pressure difference across the tropical Pacific – dipping below –10 in the past week," says Weatherzone.

"This is well below the El Niño threshold of –7, however, these negative values will need to be sustained for at least several weeks to qualify as an El Niño signal."

The weakening strength of easterly trade winds over the western Pacific Ocean is another sign of a developing El Niño.

What could happen in Australia?

While El Niño can happen without any major weather changes, it makes some conditions more likely in winter and spring.

Records over the past decade show huge parts of eastern Australia usually experience less rainfall and higher-than-average seasonal temperatures outside tropical regions during El Niño.

Mornings in winter and spring can be unusually cool due to clearer skies.

Spikes in temperature also bring greater evaporation, and together with lower rainfall, raises the risk of drought in some parts.

Lower snow depths in alpine regions also raises the chance of a shorter ski season.

But meteorologists at Weatherzone say even with a stronger El Niño, these conditions in the coming months are far from certain.

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Chantal and Robbie Haddow are yet to find a moment of peace to properly grieve their son.

It has been almost a year since Byron, 23, was found at the bottom of a plunge pool while on holiday in Bali.

Not only was it a harrowingly unexpected way to lose a child, Byron's death is still shrouded in uncomfortable mystery over 11 months on.

The heartbroken Queensland parents just want answers: What really happened to Byron?

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"There's just so many inconsistencies surrounding the time of the event, what was done, and what wasn't done," Byron's dad Robbie told Nine.com.au.

"Just a major lack of transparency. We feel like we've been failed."

Byron, a FIFO worker who worked in the Northern Territory, was found floating unconscious in the shallow pool on May 26 while on a 12-day trip to the Indonesian island.

The forensic report found Byron had alcohol and a prescription-only drug called duloxetine, which is used to treat pain, depression and anxiety, in his system.

He also had cuts and bruises on his face, but two autopsies were not able to conclusively confirm his cause of death.

Byron's family were told he had drowned, however the matter was not reported to Balinese police for four days.

"During his service, I could not stop thinking about that it was not his entire body there… lying in the coffin."

They suspect something sinister happened before Byron's death.

But Chantal and Robbie say they were stonewalled by authorities in Bali, which was made worse by the language barrier.

"It was at a standstill for so long," Chantal said.

The couple want Balinese authorities and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) to re-investigate Byron's death and for a coronial inquiry to take place.

In a positive development, the initial Balinese investigation report was signed off on this week and is now in the hands of the Queensland Coroners Court.

Now it's a waiting game as the family pushes for a coronial inquest.

"That is our little step of progress," Chantal said.

As part of an inquest, Robbie said he wants the CCTV from the villa to be properly reviewed.

He has spent hours studying the footage and audio "over and over again".

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"[Balinese police] have had that CCTV footage for as long as we have, we would hope that they've reviewed it in as much detail as we have, but there's just so many inconsistencies," he said.

"We've got like four hours of audio. And it seems pretty black-and-white.

"It's obvious that there's pieces of this story missing."

The Haddows also want authorities to speak to three Australians that Byron had met and was partying with in the hours before he died.

There is no evidence to suggest the trio are responsible for Byron's death, but the family's lawyers are concerned they were not interviewed.

They returned home to Australia before speaking to police.

"We just want answers," Robbie added.

"We can cop an accidental death. But with the two autopsies, one performed over in Indonesia, and one performed over here in Queensland, it's still inclusive of the cause of death.

"It's one thing losing a child… it's another thing not knowing how or why."

Further compounding the Haddow family's grief was the fact Byron's body was repatriated to Queensland with a vital organ missing on June 18.

The Queensland coroner discovered his heart had been taken out for testing during the original autopsy in Bali.

"With all the hoops we had to jump through to actually give them permission to perform an autopsy… you would think, that we would have had to do the same to give our consent for them to retain an organ," Robbie said.

"During his service, I could not stop thinking about how it was not his entire body there… lying in the coffin."

"His heart was still missing, it was still overseas. It was incredibly distressing."

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The past 11 months have been a brutal exercise in pushing grief aside as the couple pursues the truth.

They miss their son every day, someone they describe as a "wise old soul" with a "good head on his shoulders".

"This has actually stopped the grieving process," Robbie said.

"I haven't had time to grieve with away working all the time, FIFO, and then when I come home on break, I'm just studying everything.

"Its not fair on the families that are left to try and pick up the pieces."

The Haddows have started a petition to change how overseas death investigations are handled in Australia as part of their crusade for answers.

Nine.com.au has contacted the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) for comment.

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Robot dogs with hyper-realistic silicone heads modelled after world-renowned figures – including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso – can be seen roaming around a Berlin gallery, occasionally "pooing" printed images of their surroundings which they've previously captured with integrated cameras.

The animals are part of an interactive installation by American artist Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) currently showing at Berlin's New National Gallery.

Each printed image shows a snippet of reality transformed by AI to resemble the personality of the dog or, in other words, the worldview of the human figure on its shoulders (i.e., the Picasso dog will produce images in Cubist style and Warhol's in pop art).

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It's a commentary on how our perceptions are shaped by algorithms and technology platforms, the organisers of the exhibition write in the description of the event.

"In the past, our view of the world was shaped in part by how artists saw the world," Beeple told the AP.

"How Picasso painted changed how we saw the world, how Warhol talked about consumerism, pop culture, that changed how he saw those things."

Now our view of the world is shaped by tech billionaires who own powerful algorithms that decide what we see and what we don't see, the artist added.

"That's an immense amount of power that I don't think we've fully understood, especially because when they want to make a change, they don't need to lobby the UN. They don't need to get something through Congress or the EU, they just wake up and change these algorithms."

The dogs also wear heads in Beeple's own image.

Lisa Botti, the curator of the exhibition in Berlin, said that artificial intelligence was one of the phenomena most impacting our lives today and that "museums are the places where society can reflect" on such transformations, which is why she wanted to have Beeple's work shown.

The work, entitled Regular Animals, was first first shown at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025.

Beeple is a graphic designer from South Carolina who does a variety of digital artwork. He is one of the founders of the "everyday" movement in 3D graphics: For years, he has been creating a picture every day and posting it online without missing a single day.

According to Christie's, he is the third most expensive living artist to sell at auction, after David Hockney and Jeff Koons.

In the spring of 2021, Christie's opened bidding for Beeple's digital collage entitled Everydays: The First 5000 Days, with the sale ultimately closing at over $US69 million ($96 million).

The auction house described the artwork as "critiques of modern society, the government and social media" in the form of "grotesque, dystopian futures, often featuring celebrities like Donald Trump and Kanye West".

Christie's said the sale marked the first time a major auction house offered a digital-only artwork with a non-fungible token as a guarantee of its authenticity, as well as the first time cryptocurrency has been used to pay for an artwork at auction.

Non-fungible tokens, known as NFTs, are electronic identifiers confirming a digital collectible is real by recording the details on a digital ledger known as a blockchain. The tokens have swept the online collecting world recently, an offshoot of the boom in cryptocurrencies.

At the Art Basel 2025 event, Beeple gave away the photos pooed by his dogs to audience members, accompanied by a certificate that read "100% organic GMO-free dog shit".

Some prints had QR codes that gave access to free NFTs, which in practice meant Beeple was giving away his digital art for free for people (sometimes the subjects of the photos themselves) to potentially monetise.

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Aussie A-lister Rebel Wilson continues to deny any involvement in smear websites attacking a producer with whom she is feuding.

The Pitch Perfect star is being sued by Charlotte MacInnes, the Australian lead actor of the musical comedy The Deb.

MacInnes claims she was defamed by social media posts from Wilson that suggest she is a liar who retracted a sexual harassment complaint to advance her career.

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Wilson claims the young actor confided that she felt uncomfortable after sharing a bath in swimwear with The Deb co-producer Amanda Ghost following a medical episode in September 2023.

MacInnes denies making the complaint and says her reputation has been damaged by suggestions she retracted it for a lead role and a record deal.

The claims were referenced in smear websites created by a crisis PR team that described Ghost as an "Indian Ghislaine Maxwell" and a sex trafficker.

Giving evidence in the Federal Court today, Wilson denied authoring or ordering the creation of the malicious websites.

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She said her US lawyer hired The Agency Group to assist her with a legal dispute with her co-producers, repeatedly insisting the firm had not been commissioned to work for her.

The firm is also accused of creating smear websites against Hollywood actor Blake Lively on behalf of her co-star Justin Baldoni.

Wilson rejected suggestions from MacInnes' barrister, Sue Chrysanthou SC, that she was lying and pretending to misunderstand questions.

"You know you've lied about this topic for a year, haven't you?" Chrysanthou asked.

"No," Wilson responded.

The Bridesmaids star said anyone could have created the Word document from which the content of the smear websites appeared to have been sourced.

The metadata records the author as Wilson's company, but the actor denied any knowledge of the document and suggested anyone could have used the name.

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Wilson said she didn't think she would have been horrified by the allegations against Ghost on the websites because the producer had been bullying and harassing her at the time.

She was questioned about a previous statement that she regarded herself as a champion of women and considered her commitment to The Deb was proof of that.

"Do you still say you regard yourself as a champion of women?" Chrysanthou asked.

"Yes," Wilson replied.

"If you look over my 25-year career, you can see many evidences (sic) of me supporting women".

The Deb director denied mistreating MacInnes and Ghost while working with them on the film, labelling accusations of private and public bullying as "absolute nonsense".

"Inappropriate behaviour from a person in power to an employee is a serious problem," Wilson said.

She had smiled as she entered the courthouse, but appeared more guarded when she got into the witness box.

Wilson falsely portrayed herself as a whistleblower who spoke up to protect MacInnes when she was actually using the alleged complaint as leverage in a dispute with her co-producers, Chrysanthou claimed.

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"This is how this bully, apparently this saviour of women, the protector of the harassed, responds," she previously told the court.

But Wilson raised her concerns with others even though she had doubts about the veracity of the alleged complaint, her lawyer David Sibtain SC said.

The central issue is not whether MacInnes was a victim, but instead whether she complained to Wilson and then altered her story, he said.

"She changed her story," Sibtain said in his opening address.

"She did so to ensure her career as an actress and musician progressed by appeasing Ghost."

Sibtain argued that MacInnes' reputation hasn't suffered any harm to her reputation at all as a result of the social media posts.

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Shocking footage has emerged of an alleged hit-and-run crash in Sydney's Northern Beaches after a man was accused of ramming a teenager on an e-bike near two off-duty police officers.

The 15-year-old boy was allegedly struck by a Volkswagen SUV about 4.30pm yesterday at the intersection of Abbott and Pitt roads, in North Curl Curl.

Police say events began when the 38-year-old man driving the vehicle allegedly made an offensive hand gesture towards a group of teenage e-bike riders before driving away.

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The teenagers followed the car before one of them began arguing with the driver.

During the row, the driver allegedly threw a water bottle at the teen before driving away.

The 15-year-old then threw the same water bottle back at the car, but it did not make an impact.

The teenager continued following the car before blocking it at the intersection.

The driver is accused of hitting the teenager with his vehicle, causing the boy to be thrown from the e-bike.

As the camera moves, it reveals the 15-year-old boy who had allegedly been struck.

"He ran me over," the alleged victim can be heard saying.

"He ran straight over me."

Two nearby off-duty police officers and other onlookers told the driver to stop, but he allegedly ignored them and drove off.

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"It's just a shocking thing to happen in a quiet street like this, especially involving a young kid on a bike," a resident told 9News.

Paramedics were called and a rescue helicopter was put on standby as a precaution.

The 15-year-old boy was treated for serious leg injuries before being taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition.

Police launched an investigation. The 38-year-old man handed himself in at Dee Why, before being transferred to Manly Police Station.

He was charged with driving furiously in a motor vehicle, causing bodily harm, negligent driving and driving while a licence application has been refused.

The man was granted strict conditional bail and is scheduled to appear in court next month.

NSW Premier Chris Minns said today he was "particularly worried" about how e-bikes were overtaking footpaths and roads.

"They're getting in the way of citizens, particularly pedestrians," Minns said.

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Borrowers are just hours away from receiving the clearest indication of whether an unwelcome third-straight interest rate rise will be handed down next week.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics will deliver the latest round of inflation figures tomorrow morning, including for the first quarter of the year and the individual month of March.

While the Reserve Bank has historically placed far greater emphasis on quarterly numbers, the monthly data will better capture the impact of fuel prices, which skyrocketed in the wake of the war in Iran.

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While exact forecasts differ, economists are predicting inflation will surge to its highest level since 2023, with a headline figure of about 4.8 per cent – far higher than the RBA's target of 2-3 per cent.

"Headline inflation is set to rise sharply in March, driven by the surge in petrol prices following the outbreak of the Iran war," Commonwealth Bank senior economist Trent Saunders wrote in the bank's CPI preview earlier this month.

"We expect a monthly increase of 1.1 per cent, lifting the annual rate to around 4.6 per cent.

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"Fuel alone is likely to account for 0.9 percentage points of the monthly gain, with petrol prices at the pump rising by more than 30 per cent over the month."

While the RBA has already pulled the trigger on two hikes in as many meetings this year, and there are concerns about a slowing economy, its monetary policy board is expected to make it three from three when it meets next week.

All of the big four banks are expecting a third hike of the year next Tuesday – Westpac has even pencilled two further ones in June and August – and the market is pricing in a roughly three-quarters chance that the cash rate will be pushed back up to 4.35 per cent.

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And while there is a chance tomorrow's inflation read may dampen the case for a rate hike next week – and the roughly $91-a-month blow it would deliver average mortgage-holders – the nation's biggest bank says it would take something extraordinary to stay the RBA's hand.

"Quarterly CPI, released tomorrow, will make or break the case for the Reserve Bank of Australia to increase its cash rate," CBA international economist Samara Hammoud said.

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"Financial markets are currently pricing around a 78 per cent chance of a hike.

"There is a risk of a weaker outcome for underlying inflation than consensus.

"However, in our view, it would take a large downward surprise to materially pull down market pricing for a May hike."

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