Comedian Bill Maher has branded Joe Biden “cadaver-like” as he hit out at The View host Joy Behar for her hesitancy to criticise the President.

The Daily Telegraph’s Tim Blair reacts to a viral clip of Joy Behar where The View host admitted she was nervous about saying anything against President Joe Biden.

A Sky News UK journalist was filmed being thrown out of the Tory party’s official campaign launch in what has been described as a “PR nightmare” for the UK government, according to The Australian’s Sophie Elsworth.

Former US deputy assistant secretary of defence Elbridge Colby says he would be “honoured” to serve in Donald Trump’s administration if the former president wins the upcoming election in November. It comes after speculation that Mr Colby will play a role if the former US president is elected in the 2024 election. “Let me be very clear, I don’t speak for former president Trump, I don’t speak for his campaign and I certainly don’t make any presumptions about playing any role in his future administration,” Mr Colby told Sky News host Erin Molan. “I would be honoured to serve in his administration, and I hope he wins. “Whatever capacity I end up in or out of the government, I will be supporting him and his approach.”

Sky News host Erin Molan has praised Israeli Minister for Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer for “brilliantly” handling the “fiction” which surfaced during an interview conducted by ABC presenter Sarah Ferguson. “If you let me finish a few sentences, I will actually be able to make a couple of points but if you want to interview yourself, you can go ahead and do that,” Mr Dermer said to Ms Ferguson after he became frustrated with the interview style. “Mr Dermer, you handled every single thing that came your way brilliantly, Ms Molan said. “You relied on facts and you called out fiction.”

Former US deputy assistant secretary of defence Elbridge Colby warns things are only going to get “worse” between China and Taiwan following Beijing's announcement it was conducting military drills near the island. The drills come days after Taiwan inaugurated its new President Lai Ching-te, who Beijing calls a separatist. “The situation around Taiwan continues to be very dangerous and not getting any better,” Mr Colby said. “Things are bad and, unfortunately, I think they're set to get worse.”

Sky News host Erin Molan has backed calls from former Home Affairs Department secretary Mike Pezzullo for a “State of the Union type address” which focuses on national security to be delivered annually by the Prime Minister. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has also endorsed the idea saying, “sounds great, very sensible”. Ms Molan said it was essential Australians were “deciding emphatically” that Defence initiatives were “every bit as important” as the dollars and cents spent in the 2024 budget.

REA Group Senior Economist Paul Ryan says the housing market at the moment is in a “really stable position” for both buyers and sellers. Mr Ryan joined Sky News Business Reporter Edward Boyd to discuss the “unseasonably strong” housing demand in Australia. Around 2,585 properties across Australia are scheduled for auction this weekend. “I think it's stellar confidence, it's stability interest rates, it's continued increases in home prices,” Mr Ryan said. “The market is just in a really stable position for buyers and sellers at the moment.” In partnership with realestate.com.au.

Shadow Assistant Foreign Minister Claire Chandler discusses Chinese military exercises around Taiwan days after the territory’s new President Lai Ching-te was sworn in. The drills include occupying key areas of the island; Taipei says it has tracked almost 50 fighter jets flying nearby. “I think this is more of the dangerous and destabilising behaviours that we have seen from the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) in relation to Taiwan,” Ms Chandler told Sky News Australia. “For it to be happening in the region so soon after the integration of the new president and vice president this week is incredibly concerning and disappointing. “Sadly, this behaviour has been continuing for quite some time around Taiwan and to an extent, we have become accustomed to it.”

Officers in riot gear have faced off with pro-Palestinian protesters on a college campus in California. Protesters erected a new encampment at UCLA after increased tension between students and school administrators. Police pushed back a group of protesters on Thursday who had set up tents and marched through the campus chanting ‘from the river to the sea Palestine will be free’. Before uniformed police arrived, UCLA officials warned the group to disperse or risk facing legal and disciplinary action.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul faces backlash after she called Donald Trump supporters “clowns” on Thursday. Hochul was interviewed by CNN ahead of the former US president’s rally in the Bronx, New York. “Well, I’ll tell you what won’t make a difference at all, Jake, and that’s for Donald Trump to be a ringleader and invite all his clowns to a place like the Bronx,” she said. A clip of the interview was posted to X where social media users slammed the 65-year-old Governor. “How disrespectful and arrogant she is. She seems awfully confident that Biden will win New York. Apparently, she has her cheat in place,” one user wrote. The 45th president’s rally saw a surprisingly huge turnout despite being in the heart of a deep blue state. Before the rally, Trump’s campaign said 3,500 people were expected to attend, but the turnout was closer to 25,000.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese used his speech marking two years in office to reach out to families struggling with the cost of living. “I understand that Australians are doing it tough right now and I certainly haven’t forgotten what it is like to struggle and to strive,” he said at the Western Sydney Leadership Dialogue. “To worry about your family’s economic security, to wonder if you will get the opportunity to pursue your aspirations. “It is my life story and the life story of so many people here in Western Sydney.”

Former CIA analyst and author Martin Gurri discusses the ongoing power struggle in the United States between normal voters and the elites in the lead-up to the US presidential election. “I think the elites are desperate,” Mr Gurri told Sky News host James Morrow. “You look them in the eye and what you can see is fear, they know they are behind the eightball.” “This election is not going to be about Donald Trump the Democrats want it to be about Donald Trump, it’s going to be about Biden.”

Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Birmingham says there is no “moral equivalence” between Israel’s leaders and Hamas despite the International Criminal Court’s warrants for their arrest. “The reality is that the International Criminal Court made the decision to have their prosecutor make the request for these warrants,” he told Sky News Australia. “Simultaneously creating some type of impression of equivalence where there is no equivalence between the terrorist organisation of Hamas who deliberately set out to kill as many Jewish people in Israel as they could on October 7 last year.”

Reform UK Founder Nigel Farage has promised to run as a candidate at “some point” after announcing he will not stand in the upcoming UK general election. Mr Farage told GB News he was planning to launch a campaign to stand as an MP but he was “wrongfooted” by Rishi Sunak’s decision to call the election early. Rishi Sunak, from the Conservative Party, announced a general election will be held on July 4, six months earlier than it legally had to be held. Mr Farage said six week was "not long enough" to fight a constituency while campaigning around the country. Nigel Farage will support Reform leader Richard Tice on the campaign trail and intends to spend more time in the USA to help Donald Trump's White House run.

Sky News host Rita Panahi has slammed Joy Behar as “unhinged” after The View host tried to compare the Make America Great Again (MAGA) slogan to a swastika. “She is bonkers and devoid of joy,” Ms Panahi said. “Could you imagine anyone becoming so unhinged by a Making America Great Again hat?”

The Australian’s National Chief Correspondent Hedley Thomas has launched a new podcast to investigate the cold case of Bronwyn Winfield’s disappearance. The young mother was just 31-years-old when she disappeared from her home in the New South Wales Northern Rivers more than three decades ago. She left behind her estranged husband and two young children – aged five and 10 – and hasn’t been seen or heard from since. “I hope that we will find, and I’m sure that we will have more people coming forward ... with information that helps us understand what might have happened,” Mr Thomas told Sky News Australia. “I just think the family deserves answers – we need to put some of these cases finally to rest and give these women the respect and dignity they’ve always deserved.”

Sky News host Rita Panahi has slammed comedian Bill Maher, calling him ‘either wildly ignorant or dishonest.’

There are extensive delays in Sydney after a six-car collision. Crews are responding to the incident on Lane Cove Road in Ryde. Two northbound lanes and one southbound lane are currently closed. Traffic is currently backed up around four kilometres.

Up to 400,000 chickens have been killed in Victoria to halt the spread of bird flu, but the deadly disease has now been detected at a second farm in the state’s south-west. An investigation is underway at a second poultry farm in Victoria in Terang, which is connected to another poultry farm in Meredith where a bird flu outbreak was identified on Wednesday. The Meredith farm was where the H7N3 strain of bird flu was first located.