Harvey Weinstein conviction overturned, Trump immunity weighed, Masterchef’s gas deal

Cooking with gas | Environmentalists have accused MasterChef Australia of greenwashing after the Network Ten reality TV show announced sponsorship deals with gas companies.

Personal protection | Westfield security guards in Victoria have claimed that their requests for more protection were not acted on in the months before the mass stabbing at Bondi Junction.

Right to stay | The Australian son of a 68-year-old Palestinian woman with ill health has expressed his “shock and surprise” after her temporary visa was cancelled on the grounds that she poses a risk to Australia’s national security.

Power shortage | Electric vehicles are routinely being written off after minor accidents, as a shortage of skilled mechanics and parts, as well as outdated laws, leads Australian insurers to scrap EVs prematurely instead of repairing them.

Detention blunder | Andrew Giles closed off an avenue to avoid the high court case on indefinite detention before the Australian government made a failed attempt to head off defeat by deporting the plaintiff, a new document reveals.

Trump v the US | The US supreme court has suggested presidents may have some level of immunity from criminal charges, expressing interest in returning Donald Trump’s criminal case over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election back to a lower court to decide whether certain parts of the indictment were “official acts” protected by presidential immunity.

Playboy model ‘bought off’ | The former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker told the court in Trump’s hush-money trial that he specifically bought a story from the Playboy model Karen McDougal to bury it so that it did not “embarrass or hurt the [Trump] campaign” on another day of high drama in New York.

Weinstein win | Harvey Weinstein could face a retrial for sex offences in New York after his 2020 conviction was sensationally overturned by an appeal court because judges ruled by four to three that the original judge was wrong to allow testimony from women who were not part of the case.

Hostages plea | The leaders of 18 countries including the US and the UK (but not Australia) have called on Hamas to free Israeli and dual-national hostages held in Gaza.

Scot split | Scotland’s first minister, Humza Yousaf, could be forced to quit as early as next week after the Scottish Greens announced they would back a Conservative motion of no confidence after their coalition deal collapsed.

AFL | Collingwood and Essendon players hung their heads after a thrilling draw at the MCG yesterday which either team could have won with better kicking.

NFL | American football will expand its international search for talent by opening an academy on the Gold Coast to develop promising teenagers in the Asia-Pacific region into college and pro prospects.

Premier League | Manchester City are bidding to keep up with Arsenal at the top as they visit Brighton this morning, while it looks all over for Klopp’s Liverpool.

Sydney | The Imams Council is expected to hold a press conference in Lakemba to discuss the Wakeley terror incident.

Woolworths | Sentence for supermarket on more than 1,000 criminal charges for allegedly failing to pay long service leave to hundreds of Victorian staff.

Domestic violence | Rally to end violence against women is being held in Ballarat.

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