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A series of violent protests outside Melbourne's CFMEU building has left 37 people infected with Covid-19, after seven union officials caught the virus from rioters and unknowingly took it home to their families. Among those infected from the rallies, which saw the city stand still at the end of last month include 'very sick' elderly parents, young children and two babies, the union confirmed on Tuesday. Daily Mail Australia understands the total number now struck down with the virus from the protests has jumped to 37 after union officials unknowingly infected their families after catching Covid at the protest. A four-month-old baby is understood to be in hospital with the virus along with their mother, as is a two-year-old toddler. The union's secretary John Setka unleashed on those responsible for the jump in cases, labelling them 'selfish idiots'. A series of violent protests outside Melbourne's CFMEU building has left 37 residents infected with Covid-19 ...

President Joe Biden on Tuesday said he has confidence in Fed chairman Jerome Powell even as top fed officials battle accusations of insider trading – inserting a slight hedge into his comment. Asked while traveling in Michigan whether he still has confidence in Powell, whose term expires in a few months, Biden responded: 'Thus far yes, but I'm just catching up on some of these assertions.' He spoke hours after his deputy press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre also included a slight hedge of her own when asked a similar question aboard Air Force One. ''He does have confidence in ... Powell at this time,' she responded.   She had been asked about comments by liberal Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who has helped install key allies in top financial positions in the administration, bashing Powell for failing to safeguard the integrity of the Fed by allowing financial trades by top fed officials. 'Thus far yes,' said President Joe Biden, asked Tuesday whether h...

The bodies of three alleged criminals were hung from diggers in Afghanistan by the Taliban, harrowing pictures released today show. According to deputy governor Mawlawi Shir Ahmad Muhajir, the three men were killed by another man when they entered his home in Obe district in Herat province. In the graphic images shared on social media, the corpses are shown publicly hoisted into the air and hanging by their necks from the raised arms of two diggers as people below watch on and take photographs. Tuesday's gruesome publicly display is yet another example of the kind of practices that feed international concern that the Taliban have returned to their brutal ways last seen when they were in control of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. This is despite the Taliban frequently insisting to the world that it has changed from the hard-line Islamic group that doled out brutal punishments to criminals and greatly restricted the rights of the country's citizens, particularly women and girls. P...

Facebook's whistleblower is a Harvard Business School grad whose technical wizardry helped revolutionize some of the world's biggest apps. Frances Haugen gave up her lucrative, six-figure Facebook salary and outed herself on primetime television Sunday as the tipster who quietly leaked thousands of pages of company documents to journalists, lawyers, and lawmakers. Before going public with her concerns, she consulted with her mom, a biochemist who became an Episcopalian priest in 2012, The Wall Street Journal reported.  She previously built her career in Silicon Valley while working for tech giants such as Google, where she launched its first book reading app. She founded Yelp's photo quality team, and said is the reason menu photos are available on the app. And in 2011, at age 27, she co-founded Hinge precursor Secret Agent Cupid, and took it to market. The dating app that focuses on long-term connections is today worth more than $2billion, according to BusinessofApps. As t...

House Republican Whip Steve Scalise called former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham 'pathetic' after she claimed that Melania Trump refused to visit him at the White House in 2017 after he'd been shot.  Grisham wrote in her salacious new tell-all 'I'll Take Your Questions Now' that Scalise and his family had  taken an impromptu trip to the White House shortly after the Louisiana Republican recovered from being hot at a baseball practice in 2017.   Grisham, who also worked as the first lady's press secretary, wrote that staff asked Mrs. Trump if she wanted to visit the Scalises, gathered in the Blue Room.  'No, I already said hello,' Melania said, apparently referring to when she and the president had visited Scalise in the hospital, as first reported by Insider.  Grisham said that Trump's response had become an inside joke among staff. 'Whenever the first lady said no to something, we would say to each other, 'Well, she alread...

The murder trial of a policeman who shot dead an Indigenous woman on a suburban West Australian street is set to hear further witness evidence. As many as 60 people could be called to testify in the WA Supreme Court trial of the first-class constable, whose cannot be named for legal reasons. He has pleaded not guilty to murdering the 29-year-old woman, known as JC for cultural reasons, in the Mid West town of Geraldton on September 17, 2019. JC, a mother-of-one, had experienced mental health and drug problems and recently been released from prison before her death. The accused was one of eight police officers who arrived at the scene after JC was spotted with a large knife and a pair of scissors. Family and supporters of a woman, referred to as 'JC' at family's request, leave the District Court of West Australia in Perth As the trial got underway on Tuesday, the jury was shown confronting CCTV footage of JC being shot while surrounded by four police vehicles. Director of Pu...

Frank LoCascio, the Dapper Don's former underboss and acting consigliere, passed away Friday after serving 31 years of a life sentence A Gambino crime family underboss who stayed loyal to John Gotti even as the pair were hit with life sentences during a 1992 murder and racketeering trial has died in prison at age 89. Frank LoCascio, the Dapper Don's former underboss and acting consigliere, passed away Friday at the Federal Medical Center, Devens - a facility that houses federal prisoners with health issues - in Massachusetts. His daughter, Lisa LoCascio, was by his side as he took his last breaths.  LoCascio had been incarcerated for 31 years before his death last week after famously refusing to snitch on notorious mob boss Gotti during their infamous and highly publicized trial.  What's more, the high-ranking mafioso managed to cheat death during his three decades in the pen even with Gotti as his enemy, after the Teflon Don turned on him and put a 'contract' on hi...