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Mr Abbott lost the prime ministership to Mr Turnbull 54-44 in a vote of Liberal MPs after a long run of poor polling that suggested the Coalition was headed for a wipeout at the next election.

Australia’s new prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has revealed he has Jewish roots. The vote would not be binding, but if a majority of Australians favor marriage equality, as recent polls show they do, Parliament would likely vote it into law. “Australia wants this off...

While new Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is expected to make several changes when he announces his new Cabinet on Monday, one of the biggest questions is who he will choose to appoint as his replacement as minister for communications.

Malcolm Turnbull makes an address at Parliament after he was sworn in as prime minister in Canberra, Australia, Tuesday, September 15, 2015. His track record, in fact, is one of being far less consultative with colleagues than many have liked.

The man tipped to become Australia’s next treasurer Scott Morrison in a looming cabinet reshuffle angrily defended himself against accusations Friday he had betrayed former prime minister Tony Abbott.

‘Every policy of any rational, constructive government is always under review, ‘ he said. “I don’t think it was a surprise to anyone that the six month-period had come and gone without there being any improvement in the polls”.

Mr Turnbull, 60, was one of Australia’s most powerful lawyers before setting up his own investment bank. He left a valedictory that presidents and prime ministers of diverse politics and in other capitals might well have given. Founded in 1846 under the name The Moreton Bay...

President Obama is set to implement his historic nuclear deal with Iran as soon as this week, barring a stunning flip-flop by Senate Democrats who’ve already blocked GOP attempts to derail the deal and are slated to repeat that assist to the White House on Tuesday.

Four undecided Senators – Richard Blumen-thal, Gary Peters, Ron Wyden and Maria Cantwell – lend their support to the Iranian nuclear deal Tuesday.

Obama snapped a photo of Denali from Air Force One and posted it on Instagram shortly before meeting with a group of native leaders on the ground.

“And that second is almost upon us”. He’ll then trek through wilderness while being taped for an episode of the NBC show “Running Wild with Bear Grylls”, which tests celebrities on their survival skills. But Obama’s blogging is sending another...

I think it’s important to know the difference between Hamas and Hezbollah and to know as well that both of them, for example, are proxies of Iran.

The President exercised his executive power to change Mount McKinley-named for President William McKinley in 1917-back to its native moniker, Denali. The tribes to the south of the mountain have names for it that translate to a big mountain, and the ones to the north have names...

Together, the two climb a bat-infested cave, descend hundreds of feet into a secluded cavern and ultimately wrestle a six-foot crocodile.

Clinton voted to give President George W. Bush broad authority to strike Iraq, though she said previous year that was a mistake.