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A mother who took her son to a shooting range just days before he shot dead four students at his US school, is to go on trial, charged with involuntary manslaughter. Jennifer Crumbley and her husband, James Crumbley are the first parents to be charged in a mass US school shooting. They gave their son,

A manhunt is under way after a gunman killed eight people over two days in the suburbs of Chicago. Police in Will County and the city of Joliet said they did not know of a motive for the killings, but said the man knew the victims. The FBI’s fugitive taskforce is assisting local police in

It’s a week since Donald Trump stormed to victory in Iowa. The polls predicted he would do well, but that didn’t make this first test of his re-electability any less remarkable. The four-times indicted, twice impeached, election-denying, global agitator won in all but one of the state’s 99 counties. It was unprecedented on many levels.

Churchillian it wasn’t – this was surrender He’ll fight them on the seas and oceans, he’ll fight them on the beaches… Ron DeSantis just won’t fight them in New Hampshire. The Florida governor is fond of quoting Winston Churchill in a set-piece speech and he did it again in the social media address that announced

Nikki Haley has questioned Donald Trump’s mental capacity to serve a potential second term in the White House. Ms Haley, 52, made the comments after Mr Trump, her Republican rival, appeared to confuse her with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at a rally in Concord ahead of the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday. The former

A couple have been accused of fraudulently collecting retirement benefits on behalf of a dead relative while they concealed his “mummified” body in their home for six years. Police in Kansas discovered the body of Mike Carroll in 2022 after his son-in-law, Kirk Ritter, called police to report his death. However, authorities discovered through digital

Prince Harry has arrived at an awards ceremony in Los Angeles where he will be recognised as a Living Legend of Aviation. Just hours after the Duke of Sussex withdrew his libel claim against the publisher of the Mail on Sunday, he arrived at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, where he will be

Footage shows the moment a Boeing 747 left streaks of flames across the sky when its engine caught fire soon after taking off from Miami International Airport. Flight audio from the Atlas Air cargo plane reveals the pilot said “mayday mayday” as he requested access back to the same airport and revealed he had five

Three people have died from electrocution after slipping on ice into a power line that fell on a car during a storm in Portland, Oregon. Devastated father Ronald Briggs said his 15-year-old son Ta’Ron, and his 21-year-old daughter – who he did not name – died after slipping into the live wire while trying to

The story of Uvalde never gets easier. Children trapped with a mass shooter, wielding a semi-automatic weapon, for 77 minutes while law enforcement stood back. A total of 19 youngsters and two teachers were killed. Every aspect of what happened inside two inter-connected classrooms at Robb Elementary School is as chilling as the next. The

“Critical failures” delayed the police response to the 2022 shooting in Texas that killed 19 children and two teachers, according to a damning US Department of Justice review. The report found shortcomings in “leadership, decision-making, tactics, policy and training” led to a confused response to gunman Salvador Ramos at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on

A mother has claimed police raided the “wrong house” and deployed diversionary flash-bang devices that injured her 17-month-old son – leaving the infant in hospital with burns. Police have offered a different account of what happened – saying they executed a search warrant at the correct address and the child was not harmed during the

Nikki Haley has dropped out of a debate before the crucial New Hampshire Republican primary contest, saying she would only take part if Donald Trump did. The former US ambassador to the United Nations finished third in the snow-covered Iowa caucuses on Monday, a couple of points behind Florida governor Ron DeSantis but well behind

A New York architect has been charged with the murder of a fourth woman, as police revealed how DNA evidence from his daughter’s drink can helped to make a link. Rex Heuermann, 59, was formally charged with the murder of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, having already been accused of killing three other women left near Gilgo Beach,

“It was a great victory,” former president Trump’s son told me moments after his father’s Iowa victory was announced.  “He is feeling great. We crushed it tonight,” Eric Trump said. And crush it, they did. It was remarkable and has no comparison in Iowan caucus history. It’s all the more remarkable because Donald Trump has

Donald Trump has won the Republican party’s Iowa caucuses, according to a projection by Sky’s US partner NBC News. The voting is the first step of a process that’s likely to see the former president picked as Republican candidate for November’s election. Mr Trump was overwhelming favourite to be top pick among Republican members in

Temperatures in parts of the US could drop to about -30C as Donald Trump urged voters in one state to brave the blizzard conditions. At least four people have died in a dangerous Arctic blast, which has knocked out electricity for hundreds of thousands of people, brought snow even to southern states and postponed a

The main street in Des Moines, leading to the State Capitol building, is covered by a thick layer of snow, as icicles dangle from signs welcoming visitors to the home of the famous Iowa caucuses. One woman is waiting for the bus and a man is shovelling snow from the pavement in front of his

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin is still in hospital and is in a good condition, the Pentagon has said. The 70-year-old was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland on 22 December with prostate cancer. He returned to the hospital on 1 January due to complications including a urinary tract infection and

An American lawyer who fought a years-long battle in the 1970s to prevent John Lennon from being deported from the US has died aged 90. Leon Wildes, whose health had been declining since he suffered a series of strokes, died on Monday at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, his family said. His name became part