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The US Supreme Court has signalled a willingness to curtail abortion rights in the US and possibly overturn the 1973 Roe v Wade ruling...

Outside Mississippi’s only abortion clinic, it is rowdy, tense, and uncomfortable.   As women turn up to receive abortions at Jackson Women’s Health, they...

Tiger Woods has said be won’t be able to play golf full-time “ever again” after a car crash in which he could have lost...

The new Omicron variant of COVID-19 is a “cause for concern and not for panic”, Joe Biden has said. The US president told reporters...

Ghislaine Maxwell targeted young girls and manipulated them before “serving them up for sexual abuse”, a US prosecutor said in her opening statement in...

For a woman known around the world, who has been the focus of documentaries, podcasts and endless news coverage, Ghislaine Maxwell still remains an...

More than $1.5m (£1.1m) has been raised to help an American man who was freed after spending 43 years in jail for a triple...

The long-awaited trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, who is facing six sex-trafficking charges, is due to start in New York on Monday. The charges involve...

Stephen Sondheim – the composer and lyricist behind some of the world’s best-known musicals – has died aged 91. Just some of his best-known...

NASA has delayed the launch of its new James Webb Space Telescope following an “incident” that happened affecting its connection to the rocket. The...

Three white men who chased and shot a black man in Georgia last February have been convicted of his murder. Ahmaud Arbery, 25, was...

Keanu Reeves has finally answered the question about whether or not he is married to Winona Ryder. In 1992, the Matrix actor appeared alongside...

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...