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A jury has ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay $965m in damages to families of those killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting....

Two fishermen fought off sharks after their boat sank off the Louisiana coast while a third swam to search for help. The swimmer, Phong...

NASA has said a spacecraft that deliberately crashed into an asteroid last month has successfully shifted its orbit. Findings of telescope observations showed that...

Tributes have been pouring in for Dame Angela Lansbury after her death at the age of 96. The actress, who starred in TV drama...

Actress Kaley Cuoco says she is “beyond blessed and over the moon” after announcing she is pregnant with her first child. The Big Bang Theory...

Jurors tasked with deciding if Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 people in 2018, will receive the death penalty are expected to begin...

Prosecutors have dropped charges against Adnan Syed – the subject of the hit podcast Serial – three weeks after his murder conviction was overturned....

Dame Angela Lansbury, who starred in the hit TV drama Murder, She Wrote, has died at the age of 96. Her family said in...

Prosecutors have dropped charges against Adnan Syed – the subject of the hit podcast Serial – three weeks after his murder conviction was overturned....

Anna “Delvey” Sorokin, the con artist who swindled Manhattan’s elite by posing as a German heiress, says she got “exactly what I wanted” after...

The school district at the centre of the mass shooting at a primary school in Uvalde, Texas, has suspended its entire police force. Following...

US President Joe Biden has said the world is facing the biggest threat of nuclear “Armageddon” since the days of President Kennedy and the...

Joe Biden is to pardon thousands of Americans convicted of possessing cannabis. The US president said those with federal convictions for “simple possession” could...

A baby girl, her parents and her uncle have been found dead in an orchard days after they were kidnapped at gunpoint in central...

Chess player Hans Niemann has broken his silence after being accused of widespread cheating – claiming he “won’t back down”. The 19-year-old was asked...

US vice president Kamala Harris was involved in a car accident that was initially reported to Secret Service chiefs as a “mechanical failure” –...

The co-executive producer of the hit US comedy show Scrubs has been charged with 18 counts of sexual assault. Eric Weinberg is accused of...

A suspected California serial killer appears to be “on a mission” police have said, although they admit they are still baffled as to what...

Country music star Loretta Lynn has died at the age of 90. Her family said she passed away at her “beloved ranch in Hurricane...