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Elon Musk’s private space company SpaceX has won a $2.9bn (£2.1bn) NASA contract to build a spacecraft to put humans on the moon. The...

Eight people have been killed in a shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis. At least four people are in hospital – one with...

Bodycam footage of a police officer fatally shooting a 13-year-old boy last month appears to show the teenager holding his hands up before he...

Former police officer Derek Chauvin has refused to testify in court over the killing of George Floyd as the defence rested its case and...

A long-time suspect in the disappearance of California student Kristin Smart almost 25 years ago has been charged with her murder, while his father...

A former police officer who fatally shot a black motorist during a traffic stop in Minnesota will be charged with second-degree manslaughter, a prosecutor...

The defence has begun in the trial of the former Minneapolis police officer accused of killing George Floyd. One of the first witnesses contradicted...

The withdrawal of all US troops from Afghanistan is being delayed until 11 September – the 20th anniversary of the al Qaeda terror attacks...

The US Food and Drug Administration has recommended a “pause” to the rollout of the Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine so it can investigate...

The police officer who fatally shot a black man in Minneapolis on Sunday, sparking more unrest in the city, meant to reach for her...

Protests have taken place after police fatally shot a black man during a traffic stop in the Minnesota city of Brooklyn Center, just outside...

A US army lieutenant is to sue two Virginia police officers after they pulled their guns on him and used pepper spray during a...

Stacey Wright is very proud of the photo she snapped of the Duke of Sussex walking his dog on the beach near his new...

Tiger Woods mistakenly thought he was in Florida when the golfer was interviewed by police after his recent high-speed car crash in Los Angeles,...

An expert witness has said the sheer volume of videos taken by bystanders of George Floyd’s arrest helped her establish the view that oxygen...

Amazon workers have voted not to unionise at one of the company’s warehouses in Alabama in a major victory for the company. The majority...

A police officer has resigned after he was filmed stuffing snow into the mouth of a suspect as he arrested him. Body cam footage...

A world-renowned breathing expert has told the George Floyd murder trial that the 46-year-old died from “lack of oxygen”. Dr Martin Tobin, a lung...

The use of force against George Floyd should have stopped once he had been arrested and handcuffed, ex-cop Derek Chauvin’s murder trial has heard....