Davidson told Fox LA that the couple first became suspicious when they were “feeling funny”. They decided to comb through footage from the camera they had placed in the kitchen. “We’ve caught it on video twice,” Billy told Fox LA. They told Fox LA they needed hospital treatment at one point for a “mysterious illness". “I have liver damage and [Billy] had health issues on top of the ones that she already has,” Davidson said.
Continuing his rant against De Niro, Trump also hit out at another high-profile critic, Rosie O’Donnell, who moved to Ireland last year in protest at his re-election but recently confirmed she had been back to the US for a brief visit to her family. “The only difference between De Niro and Rosie is that she is probably somewhat smarter than him, which isn’t saying much. “ I don’t want everybody going around with their MAGA, the American flags, like they’re the only ones. We are Americans too.”He later said: “People have to resist, resist, resist, resist, resist. There’s no nothing – people are not going to go away, even if Trump dies for some reason by having an illness or something.
“There’s other things I know about that I’m not talking about, by the way, just for anyone at Air New Zealand that thinks I’m being unfair. Seymour said that he couldn’t reveal what the “other stuff” is because he thinks “that they have the right to a bit of privacy”. Air NZ, along with many other airlines worldwide, is working towards net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. “We need to be fighting fit in a number of different versions of what the future holds and that’s what we’re focused on,” Air NZ chief executive Nikhil Ravishankar said. The Front Page is a daily news podcast from the New Zealand Herald, available to listen to every weekday from 5pm.
Ronndog Keefe pleaded guilty to 13 charges, including distributing objectionable child exploitation material and threatening to kill. Photo: Open JusticeWarning: This article discusses issues of child sexual exploitation and mass killing and may be distressing for some people. A Hawke's Bay man who distributed "repugnant" videos and images showing the sexual abuse of children, and who was dubbed a national security threat by police for planning a mass killing, can now be publicly identified. Keefe distributed extreme child sexual exploitation material while communicating with members of an international online extremist group known as 764. A police summary of facts said Keefe's "extremist ideologies" and his wish to conduct a mass stabbing event were considered a "national security threat".
The result was "clearly disappointing", said Labour Party chair Anna Turley. The Green Party's Hannah Spencer won the contest for the vacant parliamentary seat of Gorton and Denton. The Green Party won 40.7% of the vote on Friday in an election triggered when an MP resigned for health reasons. Nigel Farage's Reform Party came second with 28.7% of the vote and Labour finished third with 25.4%. Starmer was unlikely to face an immediate threat to his position if he lost, Labour lawmakers said before the vote.
But when the noises didn’t stop, she quickly realised he was having a heart attack. “I should have called the ambulance first, but I didn’t think it through,” she said. But the experience helped her to recognise the symptoms when another loved one suffered a heart attack. “I used to get an erratic heartbeat but didn’t think much of it,” she said. “The funds raised also help support education for New Zealand heart professionals and improve treatment for those living with heart disease.
Photo: ODT filesSecondary principals say the worsening shortage of teachers is forcing schools to cancel subjects and hire untrained teachers. Education Ministry figures showed schools this year faced a bigger shortfall of secondary teachers than previously expected. The ministry's figures showed that while there were too few secondary teachers, there was a surplus of primary school teachers. However the ministry's report said primary schools in Taranaki, Northland, Waikato and Bay of Plenty faced persistent shortages over the next three years. "Currently, we have more teachers in the workforce since records began in 2004, with the largest year-on-year increase for primary teachers in 2024 and for secondary teachers in 2025."
The box of batteries ignited in the back of a Rotorua bin truck on Wednesday. Photo / SuppliedA fire inside a Rotorua rubbish truck this week has prompted renewed warnings about the dangers of discarding batteries in household waste, after firefighters traced the incident to a box of improperly disposed lithium batteries. Fire and Emergency said a single appliance from the Rotorua station was dispatched at 11.43am after receiving reports of a rubbish truck carrying a “smoking load”. Photo / Stephen ParkerWhen crushed or punctured during compaction inside a rubbish truck or at a transfer station, the batteries can short-circuit and ignite, sometimes explosively. A Fire and Emergency spokesperson reiterated that recycling was the safest option and warned against stockpiling discarded batteries at home.
Warner Bros. Photo / Robyn Beck, AFPNetflix has said it would not raise its takeover offer for Warner Bros. Discovery, effectively ceding the media giant to a rival bid from Paramount Skydance after deciding the deal was no longer financially attractive. Without a Netflix counteroffer, the Warner Bros. Discovery board is now free to terminate its agreement with the streaming giant and proceed with Paramount.
New Zealanders have not had to dig trenches because of the war in Ukraine, which started four years ago this week. However, as this senseless, needless conflict has worn on in Ukraine New Zealanders have come to know those people well. Photo: Getty ImagesThe Ukraine war has spanned two different New Zealand governments. Russia will keep fighting because its leader wants to; Ukraine will keep fighting because it has no choice. The rest of the world can only keep watching, keep shaking its head in despair, but not forget the people of the Ukraine whom we have now come to know.
Photo: ODT filesAn allegedly drunk woman was seen driving erratically while towing a caravan after managing to bypass her vehicle's alcohol interlock, police say. She was stopped, and police noticed she was on a zero-alcohol licence and had an alcohol interlock installed in her vehicle. ‘‘It was good to get her off the road,’’ Snr Sgt Dinnissen said. Snr Sgt Dinnissen said police located the vehicle and the officers ‘‘did some good work’’ with education and prevention. The driver was a 57-year-old forbidden driver breaching his bail, and in the passenger seat was a ‘‘high-risk recidivist’’ shoplifter.
“The victim was transported to hospital, by ambulance, in a serious condition,” Hill said. Hill said the assault appeared to be a road-rage incident, believed to have started on Higgins Rd. The incident then made its way to the intersection where the assault occurred. People with information, or who have dashcam footage, should get in touch. Sign up to The Daily H, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
Barrera criticised Israel in 2023, writing that Gaza was “currently being treated like a concentration camp” and resharing a post that said Israel was committing genocide by “brutally killing innocent Palestinians”. Melissa Barrera was fired from the Scream franchise in 2023 after she said Israel was committing genocide in Gaza. Barrera held firm on her statements at the time, writing on Instagram that “silence is not an option” when news of her firing broke. Critics said those appearing in the subsequent films lacked solidarity towards Barrera and were complicit in the ongoing deaths of Palestinian civilians. Other franchise alums Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Skeet Ulrich and Matthew Lillard also attended the premiere.
The Ministry of Health is at the centre of some of the Government’s most consequential decisions - advising the Government where billions in Vote Health funding should go. New Zealand's Budget gets split into various 'votes', and Vote Health - the health sector's share of the Government's funding pool - is significant. It was a period of significant upheaval in health - Margie Apa had just resigned as the chief executive of Health NZ, and Simeon Brown had recently replaced Shane Reti as Health Minister. Sonerson said it was important she was clear about what the role of the Ministry is and its relationship with Health NZ. "And we need to be acting on behalf of the Minister and the Government of the day on what they want Health NZ to achieve.
Kelsey Waghorn has revealed in her new book - Surviving White Island - how she had an earlier near-death experience after a tour boat exploded in flames off the Bay of Plenty coastline. Kelsey Waghorn survived the boat inferno, and jumping into the sea, only to later almost lose her life in the Whakaari/White Island eruption. Kelsey Waghorn almost lost her life in the Whakaari/White Island volcanic eruption. >> Surviving White Island, by Kelsey Waghorn, is published by HarperCollins and has a RRP of $39.99. He has covered the Whakaari/White Island tragedy, and its ongoing impacts, at length.
