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Actor Kevin Spacey has been found not liable in a civil trial that claimed he sexually abused a 14-year-old boy in the 1980s. The Hollywood star had been sued in a civil case by stage and screen actor Anthony Rapp over an alleged incident in 1986 after a party in Spacey’s New York apartment. Rapp,

Former US President Donald Trump has been questioned under oath for a lawsuit brought by a magazine columnist who says he raped her in a department store changing room. In a 2019 book, E Jean Carroll accused Mr Trump of raping her at the New York department store Bergdorf Goodman. But the ex-president angrily denied

The aftermath of Hurricane Ian has brought an increase in reported infections of a rare flesh-eating bacteria in Florida. There were 65 cases of Vibrio vulnificus and 11 deaths in the state so far this year as of Friday, according to the Florida Department of Health. It was up from 34 cases and 10 deaths

A man has been arrested in Florida after the bodies of four missing people were found shot and dismembered in a river. Joe Kennedy was stopped by officers after being spotted driving a stolen vehicle in the city of Daytona Beach Shores on Monday, local police chief Joe Prentice said. The 67-year-old, who has been

Four men were shot and dismembered before their bodies were thrown into a river in Oklahoma, US police have said. A man considered a person of interest in the case has since disappeared. Investigators found the first remains of the victims on Friday after a passer-by saw something suspicious in the Deep Fork River near

A tearful Kevin Spacey has told a court that he was “shocked”, “frightened” and “confused” by accusations that he made an unwanted sexual advance on a teenager in the 1980s. Anthony Rapp says he was 14 when an intoxicated Spacey, then 26, climbed on top of him at a party in his Manhattan apartment in

A 10-year-old boy has been mauled by a black bear while playing in his grandparents’ garden in the United States. The animal then attempted to drag the young child away before being shot by police officers, officials in the state of Connecticut said. The boy was injured but survived the ordeal. He was taken to

Elon Musk has completed his $44bn (£38bn) takeover of Twitter after months of toing and froing over the deal. His first move was to fire the social media company’s top leadership, which he accused of misleading him over the number of spam accounts on the platform. Musk sacked Twitter’s chief executive Parag Agrawal, chief financial

A former US spy has pleaded guilty to causing the death of Harry Dunn by careless driving, following a three-year campaign for justice by the teenager’s family. Anne Sacoolas, 45, was appearing at the Old Bailey in London. She entered the plea via video-link from Washington. Harry’s parents, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, held their

A firefighter who was nine months pregnant and involved in a car accident has been hailed a “true public servant” after she put herself aside and stepped in to help others in the smash. Megan Warfield, a firefighter in the US state of Maryland, was just a week away from her due date when she

A man suspected of killing six people in a string of murders in California has been arrested by police while “out hunting” for his next victim. Wesley Brownlee was driving in the city of Stockton, where five of the murders took place, and was armed with a handgun, when he was stopped by police officers

The US president has branded Liz Truss’s original economic plan as a “mistake” amid continued criticism of the prime minister’s fiscal policies. Speaking to reporters after stopping at an ice cream parlour in Oregon, Joe Biden said he “wasn’t the only one who thought it was a mistake” and that the poor outcome of the

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of killing five people in North Carolina and is in a critical condition in hospital, US police have said. The boy, who has not been named, is alleged to have fatally shot two people in the state’s capital city of Raleigh before opening fire on a walking

Donald Trump has responded to a congressional committee that wants to hear his evidence about the assault on the US Capitol building, but he hasn’t said whether he will appear. In a memo to members of the January 6 committee, he didn’t address their subpoena calling on him to give evidence before them. Rather, he

He calls it the “Unselect Committee” and his appearance before it is uncertain, to say the least. Certainly, Donald Trump showed no inclination in the wake of his subpoena. “The committee is a total BUST that has only served to further divide our country,” he opined on his Truth Social media platform. From its start,

The congressional panel investigating the deadly attack on the US Capitol last year has voted to subpoena Donald Trump. It was a unanimous vote and the former president will now be compelled to give evidence to the committee about the events of 6 January 2021 which saw five people killed and more than 140 police

A Florida jury has recommended a sentence of life in prison for gunman Nikolas Cruz who killed 17 people at a Parkland school in 2018. Jurors could not unanimously agree he should be given the death penalty, despite the prosecution requesting he be executed and arguing the deadly attack was cold, calculated and meticulously planned.

A police officer on duty during the January 6 assault on the US Capitol building has described it as a “medieval battle scene” in which he was beaten and tasered before suffering a heart attack. Michael Fanone told Sky News he thought he would die after becoming detached from his colleagues and being “struck from

A former San Antonio police officer who shot a teenager eating a hamburger in his car in a McDonald’s car park has been arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated assault. James Brennand, 25, was charged on Tuesday over the 2 October shooting of Erik Cantu, according to a police statement. The 17-year-old, who

Dame Angela Lansbury, who starred in the hit TV drama Murder, She Wrote, has died at the age of 96. Her family said the actress died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles early on Tuesday, just five days shy of her birthday. The London-born star won five Tony Awards for her Broadway