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A 70-year-old man has been taken to hospital after an early-morning house fire destroyed a property in Mundijong, east of Perth. Emergency crews were called to the home on Orton Road at about 3.20am, with fire engulfing the house while the man was inside. Police assistance was requested about 3.45am as firefighters worked to tackle the blaze. St John Ambulance transported the man to Fiona Stanley Hospital, where he is understood to be receiving treatment for injuries that are not serious. The cause of the fire has not been determined.

President Trump is back on the campaign trail in Texas as a tight race between Republican Ken Paxton and James Talrico continues to draw attention. The contest was examined by CBS News correspondent Anthony Salvanto, who broke down the race as Trump returned to the state. Kayla Guo, a reporter for the Texas Tribune, also joined The Daily Report to discuss the closely fought contest.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said the Middle East does not need the United States, arguing that countries in the region can resolve their own issues. He made the remarks at a summit of gas-exporting countries in Moscow, Russia.

Sahara Ray’s body has been released to her family, more than a week after the 34-year-old model died in hospital. Ray died last weekend “surrounded by family at the hospital”. Her autopsy has now been completed, but the official cause of death has not yet been established. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office has deferred its determination while toxicology results are awaited. Ray’s ex-partner, Mod Sun, paid tribute to her on social media, describing her as “pure magic”.

Arsenal progressed from their Carabao Cup fourth-round tie against Fleetwood Town after a 1-1 draw was settled by penalties. The Gunners won the shoot-out 5-3, securing their place in the next round after the sides could not be separated over the match itself.

A Chicago man has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for his role in a $365 million Medicare fraud scheme involving sham telemedicine companies, unnecessary orthopaedic brace prescriptions and offshore call centres. Herbert Leon Kimble, 60, was also ordered to forfeit more than $195 million in money and property and pay more than $199 million in restitution to the Medicare programme. Medicare fraud scheme used fake medical consultations Prosecutors said Kimble helped recruit vulnerable Medicare beneficiaries through deceptive marketing before selling their personal information and signed doctors’ orders to durable medical equipment companies. The medical professionals involved allegedly…

Cyber attackers can now use publicly available artificial intelligence models to reach secret information in less than a minute, research by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike has found. Human hackers working with AI agents were able to trick systems including Claude, ChatGPT and DeepSeek into accessing websites in as little as 27 seconds. CrowdStrike warned the time needed for such attacks could fall to zero in the coming months. Most ready-to-use AI systems have safeguards intended to prevent unlawful activity. However, the research found attackers could bypass those protections by issuing a series of commands suggesting they had permission to access the…

The United States has said that Bolsonaro and his family will be granted US visas after his election loss, according to a statement from the US State Department. The State Department confirmed the visa grants for Bolsonaro and his family but provided no further details. The brief statement offered no additional information on timing, conditions or the scope of the visas. In the absence of further elaboration, the announcement leaves questions over when the visas might be used or what form they take.

The United States will grant Flávio Bolsonaro a visa and allow him and his family to enter the country after the Brazilian senator left Brazil following his defeat by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a senior State Department official said. The announcement came hours after Bolsonaro departed his home country, reportedly following advice from his brother Eduardo Bolsonaro, who lives in Texas and had publicly urged him to leave if he lost the election. It was unclear where Flávio Bolsonaro was staying. Reporters gathered outside his home in Brasília after Brazilians began asking on social media about his whereabouts,…

China’s first AI-generated feature film to receive a cinema release has struggled at the box office, taking an estimated $180,000 despite a reported production budget of $1.5 million. Sanxingdui: Future Past, produced by Bona Film Group, is a science-fiction thriller about an archaeologist attempting to save a future world enslaved by artificial intelligence, according to Chinese state media. The film’s lukewarm reception was acknowledged by Jiang Defu, Bona’s chief operating officer, who described the release as an important experiment in an interview with Chinese film outlet Yuli. “We are the first to try it, the first to get a theatrical…