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British Airways (BA) has been hit with a fine of $1.1m (£877,000) by United States government. The US Transportation Department issued the punishment for...

Joe Biden has tripped and fallen during a graduation ceremony at the US Air Force academy. The American president, 80, was quickly helped up...

A crunch deal to raise the US debt ceiling has been voted through by the House of Representatives. The agreement – which aims to...

US TV star Danny Masterson has been found guilty of two counts of rape. The actor, 47, faced accusations by three women that he...

NASA has held its first public meeting on UFOs, a year after launching a study into unexplained sightings. The space agency televised the four-hour-long...

A 73-year-old woman who took part in two killings on the orders of cult leader Charles Manson in 1969 should be released from prison...

Ron DeSantis has begun his bid to become the Republican candidate for US president by claiming he is America’s saviour and calling some of...

A federal judge will hear an appeal from a conservative think tank to unseal Prince Harry’s US immigration records following revelations in his book...

The US has said a Chinese fighter jet performed an “unnecessarily aggressive” manoeuvre during an intercept over the South China Sea. In a statement,...

Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has begun her prison sentence in Texas. Holmes is due to spend the next 11 years behind bars for...

Nine people have been injured in a shooting on a boardwalk by Hollywood Bea, Florida. Several of the victims were taken to a nearby...

A mother has pleaded guilty to murder and child abuse over the death of her six-year-old son in Arizona. Elizabeth Archibeque, 26, reached a...

Three people have been killed and at least five injured in a shooting at a popular motorcycle rally in a New Mexico resort town....

President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have reached an “agreement in principle” on raising the US debt ceiling, according to sources in...

A Dallas school district has apologised after distributing a Winnie The Pooh-themed book about school shootings. The book is titled Stay Safe: Run, Hide,...

Donald Trump has responded to Ron DeSantis’s ill-fated presidential campaign launch with fake videos of a rocket crashing and a Twitter Space parody with...

A Capitol Hill rioter who was photographed with his feet on Democrat Nancy Pelosi’s desk has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison. Richard...

A 17-year-old boy fell to his death while climbing a Los Angeles bridge for a social media stunt, according to police.  Officers were called...

As presidential campaign launches go, it was hardly smooth. A live audio conversation with Twitter’s Elon Musk which didn’t quite work, at least not...