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“A routine emergency. Nothing to get too excited about.” That was how Chief Joseph Pfeifer’s day started on 11 September, 2001, in New York,...

Cardi B has given birth to her second child with husband rapper Offset, who she filed to divorce from a year ago. The WAP...

Teenager Emma Raducanu has become the youngest British player to reach the quarter-finals of the US Open. The 18-year-old secured victory in straight sets...

Police in New York City have released footage showing officers trying to rescue a family, including a two-year-old, who was killed in floodwaters caused...

Four people have been shot dead, including a baby being cradled in its mother’s arms, after attacks at two separate houses in Florida which sparked...

Storm Ida has resulted in a sizeable oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the US coastguard has confirmed. Aerial images show miles of...

Facebook has apologised after an algorithm generated a prompt that asked users if they would like to “keep seeing videos about primates” on a...

A Texas law banning most abortions has seen nearby states, such as New Mexico, prepare for an increase in women travelling for the procedure....

It has taken 24 hours for the floods around Manville to recede. At first glance, a place like this doesn’t look too bad, but...

At least 58 people have died in the US as the country’s northeastern states struggled with the remnants of Storm Ida. The deaths include...

At least six people have been killed after Storm Ida dumped a month’s worth of rain on parts of the US. Four of those...

The death and destruction caused by Storm Ida is a reminder that “the climate crisis is here” and “we must better prepare,” US President...

The trial of Elizabeth Holmes, founder and former chief executive of medical technology company Theranos, has begun in California. She is pleading not guilty...

There was a key section in the president’s speech which, in the chaos of the Afghan withdrawal, might get overlooked.  “As we turn the...

Joe Biden has hailed the “extraordinary success” of the US evacuation in Afghanistan, saying he “was not going to extend this forever war”. The...

In the end, it was the Taliban, with their volleys of gunfire, who announced the Americans had gone – uncomfortably apt really, given they...

The US has completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan after the last of its planes took off from Kabul airport. All its service members have...

It was a day many in New Orleans had planned to spend commemorating the terrible cost of Hurricane Katrina exactly 16 years ago. Instead...

Hurricane Ida has made landfall in Louisiana as an “extremely dangerous” category four storm. It hit on the same date Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana...