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Storm Ida has resulted in a sizeable oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the US coastguard has confirmed. Aerial images show miles of...

Facebook has apologised after an algorithm generated a prompt that asked users if they would like to “keep seeing videos about primates” on a...

A Texas law banning most abortions has seen nearby states, such as New Mexico, prepare for an increase in women travelling for the procedure....

It has taken 24 hours for the floods around Manville to recede. At first glance, a place like this doesn’t look too bad, but...

At least 58 people have died in the US as the country’s northeastern states struggled with the remnants of Storm Ida. The deaths include...

At least six people have been killed after Storm Ida dumped a month’s worth of rain on parts of the US. Four of those...

The death and destruction caused by Storm Ida is a reminder that “the climate crisis is here” and “we must better prepare,” US President...

The trial of Elizabeth Holmes, founder and former chief executive of medical technology company Theranos, has begun in California. She is pleading not guilty...

There was a key section in the president’s speech which, in the chaos of the Afghan withdrawal, might get overlooked.  “As we turn the...

Joe Biden has hailed the “extraordinary success” of the US evacuation in Afghanistan, saying he “was not going to extend this forever war”. The...

In the end, it was the Taliban, with their volleys of gunfire, who announced the Americans had gone – uncomfortably apt really, given they...

The US has completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan after the last of its planes took off from Kabul airport. All its service members have...

It was a day many in New Orleans had planned to spend commemorating the terrible cost of Hurricane Katrina exactly 16 years ago. Instead...

Hurricane Ida has made landfall in Louisiana as an “extremely dangerous” category four storm. It hit on the same date Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana...

Hurricane Ida could be one of the worst storms to hit Louisiana in 170 years and is expected to make landfall in the next...

The United States killed two “high profile” ISIS targets and wounded a third in retaliation for Thursday’s suicide bombing at Kabul airport, the Pentagon...

As thousands of people sought a way out of Afghanistan to escape the Taliban, scores of them were killed in a suicide bombing outside...

Robert F. Kennedy’s killer, Sirhan Sirhan, has been granted parole after two of RFK’s sons said they support his release from prison. The New...

Joe Biden has warned those behind the terror attacks at Kabul’s airport: “We will not forgive, we will not forget, we will hunt you...