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Children are among at least six people who have died after Tropical Storm Debby caused catastrophic flooding in parts of the US. Debby made landfall along the Gulf Coast of Florida as a category 1 hurricane early on Monday before weakening to a tropical storm in the afternoon. Flood warnings were issued in coastal areas

Google illegally maintained an online search monopoly, a US court has said, in one of the biggest rulings against the company’s market dominance. The tech giant has been successfully sued in federal court by the US Justice Department and states which argued it remained the most used internet search engine by paying smartphone makers billions

Robert F Kennedy Jr, the independent presidential candidate and nephew of President John F Kennedy, has said he abandoned a young dead bear in Central Park.  Kennedy, 70, posted a three-minute video on X, in which he described the incident to actress and comedian Roseanne Barr. He also said The New Yorker magazine had found

Simone Biles has asked people to stop asking athletes “what’s next?” after they win a medal at the Olympics. The seven-time Olympic gold medallist wrote in a post on the X social media platform: “Let us soak up the moment we’ve worked our whole lives for.” One of her followers jokingly replied: “What is your

A five-year-old boy has died after a wind gust blew a bouncy castle into the air while children were inside it at a baseball stadium. Emergency services were called to the Regency Furniture Stadium in Waldorf, in the US state of Maryland, on Friday after the bounce house was lifted “approximately 15 to 20 feet

Donald Trump’s son has told Sky News that any momentum Kamala Harris has in the campaign is because the media has “put her on a fake pedestal”. In a wide-ranging interview at the Trump International Scotland golf course outside Aberdeen, Eric Trump also spoke in detail about the assassination attempt against his father three weeks

The US defence secretary has revoked a plea deal which would have seen the men accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks avoid death sentences. On Wednesday, it was announced that prosecutors had reached a deal for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi to plead guilty to conspiracy charges. Just two days later,

Kamala Harris has won the delegate votes needed to become the Democrats’ presidential nominee – which will make her the first woman of colour to top a major US party’s election ticket. The current vice president has been the frontrunner to stand against Republican Donald Trump since incumbent Joe Biden dropped out of the race

Three Americans freed from Russian prisons under a landmark exchange deal have landed back in the US. Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva and Paul Whelan were part of a deal which saw 24 people released in the biggest prisoner exchange between Russia and the West since the Cold War. They are being welcomed on the tarmac

High-profile people held prisoner in Russia – including British citizen Vladimir Kara-Murza and US reporter Evan Gershkovich – have been freed as part of a massive prisoner swap. In the biggest such exchange since the Cold War, a number of individuals have been freed. They include Mr Kara-Murza, dual UK-Russian citizen, Wall Street Journal reporter

The man accused of being the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks and his two co-defendants have agreed to plead guilty, say US officials. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi are expected to enter the pleas at the military commission at Guantanamo Bay as soon as next week. According to prosecutors quoted by

A former ballerina has been found guilty of killing her estranged husband – in a case dubbed the “Black Swan” trial. Ashley Benefield was convicted of manslaughter at a Florida court on Tuesday over the fatal shooting of Doug Benefield in September 2020, Sky’s US partner NBC News reported. The 33-year-old had been charged with

US vice president Kamala Harris is now the only candidate seeking the presidential nomination, after a deadline passed with no one else qualifying. Some 99% of delegates signed Ms Harris’s nominating petition, according to the Democratic National Committee. It cements her position as the Democratic frontrunner for the 5 November election after President Joe Biden

The acting director of the US Secret Service has said he is “ashamed” of the security lapse prior to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Ronald Rowe Jr told a congressional hearing he had travelled to the site in Butler, Pennsylvania, and laid down on the roof from where the shots were fired. “What I

Donald Trump is going to be interviewed as part of the investigation into his own assassination attempt, the FBI has said. This comes as it emerged that police noticed gunman Thomas Crooks more than an hour before he opened fire – and even took a photo of him to share with other law enforcement officers.

Lady Gaga appears to be engaged to her boyfriend Michael Polansky after introducing him as “my fiance” at the Olympics. The singer performed at the opening ceremony of the Paris games on Friday night. And she may have revealed – by way of the French prime minister – that she and Polansky are set to

Kamala Harris’s election campaign has said it raised $200m (£156m) in the week since she became a presidential candidate. The US vice president‘s deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty said 66% of the funds were raised from new donors, while the campaign has signed up 170,000 new volunteers. US President Joe Biden, 81, withdrew from the

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has told a crowd of Christians they won’t have to vote again if they vote for him in November, saying “we’ll have it fixed so good”. The former president, who faces federal and state prosecution for his alleged attempts to overturn the US election result in 2020, was attending an

Three members of the US family gospel group The Nelons were among seven people killed in a plane crash in Wyoming. Kelly Nelon Clark, her husband Jason Clark, and their daughter, Amber Nelon Kistler died on Friday while taking a flight to perform on a cruise ship. Nelon Kistler’s husband, Nathan Kistler, family friend Melodi

Donald Trump’s running mate has defended comments in which he said the Democratic Party was run “by a bunch of childless cat ladies”. JD Vance’s remarks, from a 2021 Fox News interview, were reposted earlier this week by Friends star Jennifer Aniston. The actress used the clip to criticise his opposition to a law making