Fox News agrees $787.5m settlement in defamation lawsuit with Dominion over coverage of vote-rigging claims
Fox News and parent company Fox Corp have agreed a $787.5m settlement with voting machine firm Dominion, averting a high-profile defamation trial. The settlement was announced at the 11th hour, after the 12-person jury had been selected and just as both sides were due to deliver their opening statements in Delaware Superior Court. Dominion, which […]
Toddler crawls through White House fence to become first ‘intruder’ since Secret Service tightened security
A curious toddler has become the tiniest intruder to ever breach the perimeter of the White House after squeezing through a metal fence. On Tuesday, the toddler was seen crawling through the fence on the north side of the executive building. US Secret Service officers walked across the North Lawn to retrieve the toddler and […]
One dead and five injured after multi-storey car park collapses in New York
The second floor of the lower Manhattan car park collapsed onto the first, New York emergency officials said, according to CBS News. Video footage from the scene cited by CBS News showed a rescue operation getting under way. But firefighters responding to the collapse were pulled back from the immediate scene “out of concerns about […]
US bird flu outbreak ‘wiping out everything in numbers we’ve never seen before’, scientists warn
Warnings over the spread of bird flu come after the World Health Organization said people should not assume the risk to humans will always remain low. Countries have suffered huge numbers of bird deaths since an outbreak of H5N1 began in late 2021, and it has spread to mammals. An outbreak of bird flu spreading […]
Two teenagers charged with murder after mass shooting at 16th birthday party left 4 dead and 32 wounded
Two teenagers have been arrested and charged with murder after a shooting at a 16th birthday party in Alabama left four dead and 32 wounded. The suspects, Ty Reik McCullough, 17, and Travis McCullough,16, were charged with four counts of reckless murder, a state police spokesperson said. District Attorney Mike Segrest said the pair would […]
Two charged with ‘running illegal police station’ in New York for Chinese government
Two New York residents have been arrested and charged after allegedly running an illegal Manhattan police station for the Chinese government. The pair face federal charges of operating the undeclared outpost in the Chinatown neighborhood and conspiring to act as agents for Beijing, said the US attorney for the eastern district of New York. The […]
Phantom of the Opera takes its final curtain call on Broadway – ending a record-breaking 35-year-long run in New York
The Phantom Of The Opera is no longer in New York – and has taken its final bow after a record-breaking 35-year run on Broadway. The show, which tells the story of a disfigured phantom who haunts a Paris opera house and falls in love with a singer there, was Broadway’s longest-running show, and ended […]
Three of El Chapo’s sons charged over drug trafficking as US tackles overdose crisis
Three sons of the notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman have been charged over drug trafficking by the US Justice Department. Ovidio Guzman Lopez, Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar and Ivan Archivaldo Guzman Salazar are known as the Chapitos – or little Chapo ‘s – and have earned a reputation as the more violent and […]
US state votes to ban TikTok for first time – but how would Montana’s law work?
Montana has passed a bill banning TikTok in the state. The state House voted 54-43 to pass the bill – which goes further than prohibitions in place in nearly half the states and the US federal government that prohibit the video-sharing app on government devices. The measure now goes to Republican Governor Greg Gianforte for […]
FBI used social media records to identify US airman as suspect over Pentagon documents leak
The FBI used billing records from an internet social media app to unmask US airman Jack Teixeira as a suspect over the leak of top-secret military documents, it has been revealed. Court documents made public on Friday showed investigators identified the Massachusetts Air National Guardsman, 21, using information on the Discord chat platform. The leak […]
