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Elon Musk has completed his $44bn (£38bn) takeover of Twitter after months of toing and froing over the deal. His first move was to...

Elon Musk has said he is buying Twitter to “try to help humanity”. The billionaire tweeted a statement explaining his reasons for purchasing the...

A nine-year-old boy has been found by police padlocked in a dog kennel outside a US home. When law enforcement officials arrived at the...

Skechers escorted Kanye West off its premises in Los Angeles after he “showed up unannounced and uninvited” – with Madame Tussauds removing its waxwork...

Facebook’s parent company is under growing pressure to focus less on the metaverse – as investors warn it is an experimental bet causing “supersized...

A man has been found guilty of killing six people by driving his car into a Christmas parade near Milwaukee last year. Darrell Brooks...

Five people had to be hoisted to safety after an elevator at the Grand Canyon Caverns broke down around 210ft (64m) underground. A husband...

A gunman who killed a student and a teacher at a Missouri high school was armed with an AR-15-style rifle and more than 600...

Harvey Weinstein abused his power to corner women in hotel rooms and force himself upon them, according to the prosecution at his trial in...

Donald Trump will not be allowed to testify live on television to the US Capitol riots investigation. The former US president was last week...

Donald Trump has been issued with a subpoena to testify at the inquiry into last year’s riot at the US Capitol. The committee overseeing...

Steve Bannon, the former White House adviser to Donald Trump, has been sentenced to four months in prison. He had been convicted of defying...

An Afghan couple who arrived in the United States as refugees are suing a marine and his wife for allegedly abducting their baby. The...

Actor Kevin Spacey has been found not liable in a civil trial that claimed he sexually abused a 14-year-old boy in the 1980s. SThe...

A former US spy has pleaded guilty to causing the death of Harry Dunn by careless driving, following a three-year campaign for justice by...

A mutation of an Omicron subvariant of COVID could dodge the immune systems of the vaccinated and unvaccinated and drive reinfections, a study has...

It was getting dark by the time Harry Dunn’s family went into the Oval Office on the evening of 15 October 2019. They had...

Former US President Donald Trump has been questioned under oath for a lawsuit brought by a magazine columnist who says he raped her in...

The son of murdered New York mob associate Sylvester “Sally Daz” Zottola has been convicted of hiring the hitmen who killed him. According to...