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President Biden has promised that he will visit Baltimore “as soon as possible” where six people are still unaccounted for after a major bridge collapsed when a cargo ship hit it. “People of Baltimore, we’re with you,” he said, as he added the search and rescue operation was a “top priority”. The US president said

President Biden has promised that he will visit Baltimore “as soon as possible” after a major bridge collapsed – as officials say the rescue mission for the six missing people has now become a recovery operation. Miguel Luna, from El Salvador, was one of the six people on the Francis Scott Key Bridge when it

Children under 14 will be barred from joining social media in Florida from next year. Signed into law by governor Ron DeSantis, the legislation directs social media firms to delete the accounts of under-14s. Children aged 14 and 15 will also need parental consent before signing up for platforms like Instagram and Snapchat. Companies who

A New York appeals court has agreed to hold off collection of former president Donald Trump’s $454m (£359m) civil fraud judgment – if he puts up $175m (£138m) within 10 days. The former US president had been facing a deadline on Monday to post the bond for the initial ruling, which he was given for

Russia will not stop if it wins the war in Ukraine, the US ambassador to the UK has told Sky News. Speaking to Sky News presenter Kay Burley from her official residence in central London last week, Jane Hartley said she is “optimistic” that the US will release more funding for Ukraine, but said “anybody

A mountain lion has killed one man and left another with “traumatic injuries” to his face, authorities in the US state of California have said. The two brothers were hunting for shed antlers when they were attacked by the mountain lion in Georgetown, a remote part of El Dorado County. The younger brother, 18, called

Two crew members have died on a Holland America cruise ship during an “incident” in the ship’s engineering space, the cruise line has said. The pair died on Friday while the Nieuw Amsterdam liner was at the small island of Half Moon Cay in the Bahamas, Holland America added in a statement. Officials have been

Following weeks of intense speculation, not just on social media but by some news outlets, too, there has been a change in tone from the US in its coverage of the Princess of Wales’s health. As in the UK, Kate’s cancer diagnosis dominated the major broadcasters and newspapers on Friday. It is a definite shift

Donald Trump’s social media company, Truth Social, is set to go public – potentially netting the former US president $3bn. It means Trump Media & Technology Group, whose flagship product is the social networking platform, will soon begin trading on the Nasdaq stock market. It comes after Acquisition Corp, a publicly traded shell company, approved

When Victor Sharrah woke up one day in November 2020, he feared he was in some sort of “demonic world”. When he looked at people’s faces, they appeared “demon-like”, with their ears, noses and mouths stretched back, and with deep grooves in their foreheads, cheeks and chins. “You can’t imagine how scary it was,” the

Is today the moment the world’s top diplomatic body comes together in a collective call for a ceasefire in Gaza? Or will messy, discombobulating and cynical geopolitics get in the way? Will Russia vote for an American resolution? At 9am New York time (1pm UK time) the United Nations Security Council will vote on a

The United States Justice Department has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple, accusing the tech giant of engineering an illegal monopoly in smartphones that boxes out competitors. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in New Jersey, alleges that Apple has monopoly power and uses its control over the iPhone to “engage in a broad, sustained,

The first patient to receive a brain chip from Elon Musk’s company Neuralink has been shown playing online chess. Neuralink released a nine-minute video in which the patient, who is paralyzed below his shoulders, appears to move a cursor across a laptop screen with nothing but his thoughts. The video shows him playing chess and

Two former Mississippi sheriff’s deputies who were members of a group calling itself “the Goon Squad” have been handed lengthy prison sentences for their part in torturing two black men. Hunter Elward, 31, was jailed for 20 years, and Jeffrey Middleton, 46, was sentenced to 17-and-a-half years on Tuesday during back-to-back proceedings at a federal

A nurse practitioner who called himself the ‘rock doc’ has been jailed for 20 years for illegally prescribing thousands of doses of opioids including oxycodone and fentanyl in return for money and sex. Jeffrey W Young Jr, who worked in the city of Jackson in Tennessee, was one of 60 people charged in 2019 over

The Princess of Wales’s doctored family photograph has been the subject of intense scrutiny and speculation in the UK since it was posted on the royal’s Instagram on Mother’s Day. The photo aimed to quell speculation about Kate’s health since she spent a short period in hospital in January for abdominal surgery, shortly after her

Donald Trump cannot find the $557m (£438m) bond he needs to pause enforcement of a civil fraud trial judgement against him because it is too much money, his lawyers have said. The former president was fined $454m (£356m) after being found guilty of scheming for years to deceive banks and insurers by inflating his wealth

North Korea has launched ballistic missiles as US secretary of state Antony Blinken was visiting Seoul. Three short-range ballistic missiles were fired into the sea on Monday, as Mr Blinken visited for a conference on advancing democracy. It is the first time in two months that North Korea has launched weapons of that type. South

Cara Delevingne has praised firefighters after her two cats were rescued from a huge blaze that ripped through her Hollywood mansion. Her Studio City home, reportedly worth $7m (£5.5m), was engulfed in flames and smoke on Friday morning, causing the roof to collapse. Image: Safe and sound. Pic: Cara Delevingne/Instagram It took 94 firefighters more

Residents of a small town near Philadelphia have been urged to stay inside and a St Patrick’s Day parade has been cancelled as police reported “several gunshot victims” in the area. The shootings happened in Falls Township, Pennsylvania, about 28 miles from Philadelphia. Middletown Township police said: “It is unknown at this time if they