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Donald Trump is facing more criminal charges as part of an investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election result and the 6 January storming of the Capitol Building. The former US president has maintained that the result of the election – in which Joe Biden won the keys to the White House – was

A killer dubbed the “doomsday mom” has been jailed for life without the possibility of parole for the murders of two of her children and conspiring to murder her husband’s ex-wife. Lori Vallow, 50, had become obsessed with a coming religious apocalypse, prosecutors in the US said. The mother, from Idaho, believed her children had

Kanye West’s Twitter account has been reinstated after an almost eight-month ban over offensive tweets. The rapper’s account now shows his last post from 1 December, a day prior to when his account was suspended on platform X – the new name owner Elon Musk has given Twitter. West, who legally changed his name to

A federal judge has rejected a $475m (£369m) defamation lawsuit brought by Donald Trump against CNN. The US news network described the former US president’s claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him as a “big lie”. The same phrase was used by Adolf Hitler to justify prejudice against Jewish people, and is

Donald Trump has told supporters at an influential campaign event in Iowa he is the only Republican candidate who can beat President Joe Biden. The former president took to the stage at the Lincoln Day Dinner with his main rival Ron DeSantis and several other candidates in the race to become the party’s nominee in

Antisemitism in the United States has risen in a “really horrific way”, according to the Jewish Federation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The city was home to the most deadly attack on Jewish people in America – a mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in October 2018. Eleven people were killed and six injured. A

Evil spirits, zombies and the end of the world. Lori Vallow’s murder trial had it all, and ended with her being found guilty of killing two of her children. The so-called “doomsday mom” from Idaho became obsessed with a coming religious apocalypse, prosecutors say, and believed her kids had to be destroyed so they could

Donald Trump has been accused of asking an employee to delete security footage at his Florida estate in an effort to obstruct the federal investigation into the classified documents case. The updated indictment, which added new charges against the former US president, centres on surveillance footage at Mr Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach –

A five-year-old boy who fatally shot his baby brother in the US was high on cocaine while the toddler had marijuana in his system, according to prosecutors. Sixteen-month-old Isiah Johnson died from a gunshot wound to his head on 28 March in Lafayette about 60 miles north of Indianapolis, after his brother found a handgun

A girl who went missing at the age of 14 has been found four years later, after she walked into a police station and identified herself. Alicia Navarro disappeared from her home in Glendale, Arizona in September 2019 after writing a note to her parents saying she was running away but would be back, according

The mother of a missing girl who was found after four years has said “miracles do happen”. Alicia Navarro disappeared aged 14 from her home in Glendale, Arizona in September 2019 after writing a note to her parents saying she was running away but would be back. After a four-year-long search, Ms Navarro, now 18,

Kevin Spacey has been found not guilty of committing sexual offences against four men in the UK between 2001 and 2013. The 64-year-old Oscar winner cried as he was cleared after a trial which started at the end of June, during which he was described as a “sexual bully” by the prosecution. On his birthday,

A gynaecologist who sexually abused more than 200 patients has been jailed for 20 years. Robert Hadden, 64, cried and said he was “sorry for all the pain” he had caused before he was handed his sentence by a judge in New York on Tuesday. At least 245 women claimed they had been abused by

US presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis has been involved in a car crash. The Florida governor, who is running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, was involved in an accident in Tennessee on Tuesday but is uninjured, his spokesperson said. “This morning, the governor was in a car accident while traveling to an event in Chattanooga,

The personal chef of former president Barack Obama has drowned near the family’s home in Massachusetts. The body of 45-year-old Tafari Campbell was recovered from Edgartown Great Pond, near the Obama’s home on Martha’s Vineyard on Monday. The chef, from Virginia, was still employed by the Obama family, who were not staying at the property

A deadly heatwave simmering in the US southwest since spring is expected to spread to several other states, with multiple heat warnings being issued. The heatwave, which has led to extreme temperatures such as 45.5C (114F) which was recorded in Arizona’s capital Phoenix on Sunday, is forecast to expand into central and eastern parts of

A woman has been found dead after a suspected grizzly bear attack in the US.  She was found on Saturday in Montana on a trail west of Yellowstone National Park “following an apparent bear encounter”, officials from the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks said. Investigators found grizzly bear tracks at the scene but

Elon Musk says he could replace Twitter’s blue bird logo by Monday – as he pushes ahead with plans to rebrand the social network as X. In a series of posts on his account, the billionaire said he planned to “bid adieu” to the Twitter brand and “gradually, all the birds”. The Tesla and SpaceX

A man accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend and killing her toddler has been charged with a string of crimes, including murder. Rashad Trice, 26, is facing 20 charges from the Michigan state attorney general in the US related to the death of two-year-old Wynter Cole-Smith, as well as sexual assault and assault with intent to

Kamala Harris said “extremists” want to “replace history with lies” after Florida’s educational standards changed the way slavery will be taught in schools. The vice president travelled to Jacksonville on Friday to condemn new guidelines, approved by the state’s board of education this week, which she said include instructions for middle school students saying some