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A row of colourful family houses with picket fence gardens and a junk yard overlook the site of one of the most controversial chapters...

Judges have ruled that “Tiger King” Joe Exotic should have been given a shorter prison sentence. The former zookeeper was sentenced in January 2020...

A record number of people died of a drug overdose in the US last year, according to government estimates. The death toll of 93,000...

The Duchess of Sussex has created a new family-focused animated series for the Netflix streaming service. Archewell Productions, the company formed by Prince Harry...

Four Iranians have been charged with plotting to kidnap a New York-based journalist and human rights activist critical of Iran and take her back...

The long-range weather forecast from meteorologist Mike Everett is bleak: “Places like this could become uninhabitable.” He has spent the last week guiding viewers...

US inflation revved up further last month partly thanks to the biggest monthly bounce in used vehicle prices for more than 60 years. America’s...

Cuba’s president has accused Cuban Americans of using social media to trigger protests over high prices and food shortages. Police have been out in...

Firefighters are grappling with searing heat as they struggle to contain a huge wildfire in California as western states remain in the grip of...

There was at least one Englishman with something to celebrate on Sunday night. It will go down in the life story of Sir Richard Branson...

Sir Richard Branson’s private space tourism company will launch its first flight carrying the billionaire, two pilots, and three mission specialists to the fringes...

Richard Branson’s moment of destiny in space will happen 50 miles above a town called Truth or Consequences. In the high desert of New...

People are being evacuated from a community in the US state of Nevada as a wildlife that started in neighbouring California spreads. The inferno,...

Workers have started to remove the last of the high-security fencing erected around the US Capitol in the wake of the deadly attack on...

A 14-year-old girl has made history by becoming the first African American to win the 96-year-old US Scripps National Spelling Bee. Zaila Avant-garde, a...

Police bodycam footage shows officers rescuing a six-year-old girl after she was kidnapped from outside her home in Kentucky. The victim was riding her...

Authorities have called off a search for survivors in the rubble of a collapsed apartment building in Florida, saying there is “no chance of...

Ten more bodies have been pulled from the rubble of a Miami building that collapsed two weeks ago, bringing the total death count to...

Recent record-high temperatures in the US and Canada, which caused hundreds of deaths and huge wildfires, would be “virtually impossible” without climate change, analysis...