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Elon Musk has pulled out of a deal to take over Twitter for $44bn (£36.5bn). In a statement provided to the US Securities and...

A woman has been left feeling “very relieved and excited” after firefighters dived into a river to retrieve her huge diamond ring after it...

Ahead of the biggest premiere the world of astronomy has ever seen, NASA has published the cosmic A-list that will be appearing through the...

Ghislaine Maxwell has officially appealed against her conviction and sentence in the United States for sex trafficking. The 60-year-old was found guilty of luring...

Derek Chauvin has been given a 21-year jail sentence for violating George Floyd’s civil rights. Chauvin will serve the federal sentence at the same...

US basketball player Brittney Griner has pleaded guilty to drugs charges in a Russian court. The 31-year-old was arrested at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport in...

An armed policeman at the Uvalde school massacre had an opportunity to shoot the gunman but missed his chance waiting for permission from a...

The man charged with killing seven people in a shooting on an Independence Day parade in Chicago has confessed to police that he fired...

A two-year-old has been left an orphan after both of his parents were killed when a rooftop sniper opened fire on the Fourth of...

The man suspected of shooting dead six people in Chicago was dressed as a woman to hide his facial tattoos, in a bid to...

The man suspected of killing at least six people and seriously injuring more than 30 at a Fourth of July parade in Chicago has...

Jeff Bezos has clashed with US President Joe Biden’s administration on Twitter over the cost of petrol for American consumers. Mr Biden had tweeted...

Police have released bodycam footage showing the moment a black man was shot up to 60 times after he fled a traffic stop. Eight...

A one-year-old has died in the US state of Georgia after being left inside a parked car outside a Walgreens for up to four...

A three-year-old boy has died after falling from the balcony of a 29th floor apartment building in New York City, police said. Officers found...

Britney Spears’ father has denied claims he set up hidden recording devices in her bedroom during her conservatorship. Jamie Spears had been accused of...

A week has passed since the decision which altered this country forever, and small-town America is organising. In Owensboro, Kentucky, home to 60,000 people,...

American basketball star Brittney Griner has told a US diplomat she is “keeping the faith” after appearing in a Russian court on cannabis possession...

A judge has stopped the US state of Kentucky from imposing an almost complete ban on abortion. A law enacted there in 2019 proposed...