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Authorities are piecing together what they know about the man shot dead outside the US Capitol building after he launched a fatal attack on...

The heart of American government has been on edge since 6 January. This incident will serve to add to the jitters. If, as reported, the...

A driver has been shot after a car rammed into a barricade outside the US Capitol building and injured two police officers, law enforcement...

For the first time we’ve now seen what happened in the moments after George Floyd’s arrest. Two paramedics arrived at the scene and saw...

Images of George Floyd being treated in the back of an ambulance, after a police officer knelt on his neck for more than nine...

George Floyd begged police officers not to shoot him after he was stopped for allegedly trying to use a fake $20 note. Footage from...

The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is safe and 100% effective in children as young as 12, its manufacturers have said. The two firms have carried...

Police officer Derek Chauvin gave onlookers a “cold” and “heartless” stare as they pleaded with him to take his knee off George Floyd’s neck,...

The videos of the last minutes of George Floyd’s life are haunting and awful, one man’s very public death recorded for the world to...

A former Minneapolis police officer knelt on George Floyd “until the very life was squeezed out of him”, a jury has been told. Prosecutor...

The trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin starts today – 10 months after the death of George Floyd – and the stakes...

New York lawmakers have reached an agreement to legalise recreational cannabis use in the state. The proposed law would allow sales to people over...

On the hilly streets around his home in the Anza Vista neighbourhood of San Francisco, everyone knew Vicha Ratanapakdee as “grandpa”. The 84-year-old, who...

A police video in the US has sparked outrage after two officers were seen berating a five-year-old boy at his school, with one officer...

At least five people have died after a series of tornadoes tore through Alabama. Officials believe that as many as eight twisters passed through...

An American university has agreed to an $852m (£620m) settlement with more than 700 women who have accused its former gynaecologist of sexual abuse....

President Joe Biden has challenged the US to administer 200 million COVID vaccination doses by the end of his first 100 days in office....

Once again, the eyes of the world are on Minneapolis – the city is braced for the trial of the former police officer accused...

A senior state official has become the first openly transgender person to be confirmed by the US Senate. Rachel Levine, the former Pennsylvania Health...