Officials in Texas have won a federal appeal to temporarily reinstate its controversial abortion law – just one day after clinics across the US state resumed services for the first time since early September. Earlier this week, the Biden administration had successfully blocked the law, known as Senate Bill 8, but the 5th US Court
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Tyson Fury channelled wrestling legend The Undertaker as he and Deontay Wilder both weighed in at their career heaviest ahead of their fight in Las Vegas on Saturday. For the second time this week there was no face-off between the boxers, but Fury promised his extra weight meant “total obliteration of a dosser. Total annihilation”.
Twitch, the Amazon-owned video game streaming platform, has confirmed it’s been hit by what appears to be an enormous data breach. Roughly 135 gigabytes of data has been leaked online, revealing not only Twitch‘s source code but also the payout figures for its streamers – amounting to more than a million dollars since 2019 for
Electric carmaker Tesla is to move its headquarters from California to Texas, chief executive Elon Musk has said. The announcement comes after the billionaire tycoon was embroiled in a row with West Coast politicians over their handling of the coronavirus crisis. Tesla will be the latest in a number of firms, including Hewlett Packard and
A US nuclear-powered submarine hit an unknown object in the South China Sea with 11 sailors suffering mainly minor injuries, according to officials. The USS Connecticut is in a “safe and stable condition” after the incident on 2 October, said a statement by the US Pacific Fleet. The Seawolf-class attack submarine is nuclear-powered but the
A California doctor has been arrested following a hit-and-run collision that killed a nurse who had stopped to help a crash victim. James Leonard Comazzi was detained after a months-long investigation aided by an anonymous tip-off. Juliana Ramos, a 26-year-old nurse and mother of three, had pulled over to help someone hurt in a collision
A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked the enforcement of a near total ban on abortion in the state, calling the law “flagrantly unconstitutional”. Senate Bill 8 has been dubbed the “Heartbeat Bill” because it bans abortion once cardiac activity in a embryo can be detected on an ultrasound scan, often as early as
Facebook’s chief executive has denied claims that the company prioritises profit over the safety of its users. Mark Zuckerberg was responding to Frances Haugen’s claims that, left alone, Facebook would “continue to make choices that go against the common good – our common good”. Ms Haugen – a former product manager at the tech giant
Facebook has said there was “no malicious activity” behind a widespread outage that knocked all of its services offline for several hours yesterday. The social network – as well as Instagram and WhatsApp – were inaccessible for its 3.5 billion users because of the technical issues. Although the tech giant had previously said that a
After nearly four months without a winner, a single ticket sold in California has won the Powerball jackpot worth $699.8m (£514m), officials have said. The winning numbers were drawn on Monday and the winner, from Morro Bay, matched all five numbers and the Powerball. This was the first grand prize winner since 5 June after
Even on a Monday morning, the beaches would usually be bustling in the place that calls itself “Surf City USA”. But the sands in Huntington Beach in California are deserted. So too, the beaches that stretch for miles south. The closures are part of a massive response to the spill of thousands of gallons of
Two US-based scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering receptors for temperature and touch. David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian were awarded the prize in the field of physiology or medicine. Their discoveries “have allowed us to understand how heat, cold and mechanical force can initiate the nerve impulses that allow us to perceive
An emergency clean-up effort is under way in Huntington Beach, California, after a massive oil spill described by the city’s mayor as an “environmental catastrophe”. More than 572,000 litres – 3,000 barrels – of heavy crude spilled into the Pacific Ocean between Huntington Beach Pier and Newport Beach, a distance of more than five miles.
The body of a missing student has been found just days after the prime suspect in her death killed himself. Miya Marcano, 19, was found in a wooded area near an apartment building in Orlando, Florida. She was reported missing on 24 September after she failed to catch a flight home to Fort Lauderdale and
Donald Trump has asked a federal judge in the US to force Twitter to restore his account, which was shut down after his supporters attacked the US Capitol in January. The former US president has filed a request for preliminary injunction against the social media company in the US District Court for the Southern District
Gabby Petito, a 22-year-old blogger whose body was found in a US national park, told police about a domestic dispute with her boyfriend the month before she disappeared. Ms Petito was found dead in Wyoming on 18 September and police are investigating her death as a homicide. Her boyfriend Brian Laundrie, 23, was charged last
In the skies over Hollywood a small plane pulls a banner reading “vote yes”. On a monitor on a movie set, the same words are scrawled on a piece of luminous tape. On a crane hoisting bits of scenery into place, the same slogan is emblazoned in big letters. That simple message is at the
US President Joe Biden has narrowly avoided a government shutdown, signing new legislation on spending just hours before the deadline. Republicans blocked the bill to fund the American government through to 3 December because they were unhappy with the plan to raise the debt ceiling, but it was eventually passed by the House and the
More than half of all killings by police officers in the United States go unreported – and black Americans are far more likely to be the victim, according to a new study. Research published in the medical journal The Lancet reported that 55% of deaths from “police violence” in the US between 1980 and 2018
They heard the roar from the street outside at the moment Britney Spears won her legal fight in a Los Angeles courtroom It was a moment of release for a Free Britney campaign which has spent years rallying in support of the singer’s cause, and in opposition to the conservatorship that has run her life