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A Kansas City man who spent 43 years in jail for three murders has been released from prison after a judge ruled he was...

A rape conviction at the centre of an award-winning memoir by Alice Sebold has been overturned amid concerns the wrong person was sent to...

A man has appeared in court charged with multiple homicides after a car plowed into a Christmas parade in the US – as a...

After winning an Oscar earlier this year, Jon Batiste now leads the nominations for the 2022 Grammy Awards – with Justin Bieber, Billie Eilish,...

A spacecraft has been launched from California this morning carrying with it humanity’s greatest hopes of being able to protect our planet from a...

A statue of US President Thomas Jefferson has been removed from New York City Hall over his links to the slave trade. The 1833...

Three members of the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies group are among five people dead after a US Christmas parade turned to tragedy. The group had...

A man police are questioning after five people were killed and more than 40 were injured when a vehicle drove through a Christmas parade...

More than 20 people have been injured after a vehicle drove through a holiday parade in the US state of Wisconsin, according to police....

A convicted felon who tried to board a flight from Atlanta with a gun fled the airport after it was accidentally fired in the...

Protesters hurled objects at police and broke windows amid anger following the acquittal of a teen who killed two people and injured another at...

For the past two weeks the steps in front of the grand courthouse in the small Wisconsin city of Kenosha have been a focal...

President Joe Biden remains “healthy” and fit enough for the presidency but is showing some signs of ageing, his doctor said on Friday. Biden...

Kamala Harris is to get presidential powers for a “brief period of time” on Friday while Joe Biden undergoes a routine colonoscopy. Mr Biden,...

Julius Jones’ death sentence has been commuted by Oklahoma’s governor just hours before his execution. Jones, who was convicted of killing Paul Howell, a...

Tiger King star Carole Baskin has reacted to claims that her former husband is alive and well, having apparently been found in Costa Rica....

US rapper Young Dolph has been shot dead at a cookie shop in his hometown of Memphis, police have said. The 36-year-old star, real-name...

One person is dead, several people are missing and thousands have been evacuated following severe flooding in the northwest of the US and parts...

Workers at Amazon’s warehouses in California were left “terrified” and “powerless” as the company concealed COVID-19 outbreaks from them, according to the state’s attorney...