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Police in Philadelphia say it’s a “miracle” all four passengers – including an infant – survived when the helicoper they were travelling in crash...

A teenage mother in New Mexico has been arrested and charged with attempted murder and child abuse, after she was captured on CCTV throwing...

A terminally ill man has been given the chance of life after his own diseased heart was replaced by a genetically-modified pig’s heart. In...

A New York City apartment block fire was more deadly because an open door allowed smoke to spread, the city’s fire commissioner has said....

Davos, January 2015, and in front of a room of businesspeople at the World Economic Forum, Prince Andrew for the first time had to...

A man has been saved from near-death by police officers in Los Angeles after he crash-landed his plane onto railway tracks seconds before it...

At least 19 people, including nine children, have died after a huge fire tore through an apartment block in New York City. New York...

A Chinese man who was brutally attacked while collecting cans in New York City has died of his injuries eight months later. Yao Pan...

Oscar-winning composer Marilyn Bergman has died at her home in Los Angeles at age of 93. The lyricist, who teamed with her husband Alan...

Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has revealed how he lost nearly six and a half stone (40kg) in less than six months....

Three white men who chased and shot a black man as he ran through their neighbourhood have been sentenced to life in prison for...

Peter Bogdanovich, who directed movies including The Last Picture Show and Paper Moon, has died at the age of 82. His daughter, Antonia, said...

US President Joe Biden has marked one year since the 6 January deadly assault on the Capitol by condemning political violence in an address...

A blanket of snow covers Washington DC at the moment – the heart of what is often framed as the world’s greatest democracy looks...

Prosecutors have urged a New York court to investigate a juror in the Ghislaine Maxwell case who has since told a newspaper he was...

A utility company’s power cables sparked last summer’s lethal Dixie Fire in California, which swept through five counties and destroyed more than 1,300 homes...

More than a million new COVID cases were reported in the US on Monday – the highest anywhere in the world since the start...

The founder of blood-testing startup Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, has been convicted of fraud. The 37-year-old was found guilty of turning her company into a...

A confidential settlement between Jeffrey Epstein and Virginia Giuffre appears to absolve him and any other party who could have been included as a...