With the Australian Open, Married at First Sight and Winter Olympics, Nine's start to 2026 couldn't be better.

How did Takaichi Sanae overcome barriers to become prime minister? What circumstances and personal qualifications or experiences helped her candidacy succeed? The path to the prime minister’s office ...

Diane Crump, who in 1969 became the first woman to ride professionally in a horse race and a year later became the first female jockey in the Kentucky Derby, has died. She was 77. Crump was diagnosed ...

(LEX 18) — Diane Crump, the first female jockey to race in the Kentucky Derby, has died from an aggressive form of brain cancer. She was 77. A Connecticut native, Crump first made history in 1969 as ...

DETROIT, MI — Detroit officially has a new mayor. Mary Sheffield took the oath of office as Detroit’s mayor during a ceremony Thursday, Jan. 1, two months after voters in Michigan’s largest city ...

The past year has brought uncertainty for diversity in the tech sector as the landscape in the US turned sour, with President Donald Trump ordering the termination of diversity, equity and inclusion ...

Cardiac surgeon Amy Fiedler, MD, stares at the motionless heart below her in an operating room at UC San Francisco’s Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights. She’s nearly five hours into a ...

A group of 14 women, some of whom were inmates or former foster kids, became the first all-female class to graduate from a Los Angeles County firefighter training program. "I never thought I would be ...

Software firm Horizon Quantum claimed it is the first private company to deploy a commercial quantum computer in Singapore. The deployment also makes it the first quantum software company to deploy ...

One of the first women to become a state trooper with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol has passed away. Freda Daugherty graduated from the academy in 1978 with one other woman in the class, then served as ...

When Janet Kintner was sworn in back in 1976, she was a rarity: a female judge. There was just one other female judge on the San Diego Municipal Court bench when then-Gov. Jerry Brown appointed her.

TOKYO — As Japan’s first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi has broken new ground in a country that struggles with gender equality. But she has quickly run up against a tradition that may be ...