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The Chinese government could use TikTok to control the data of millions of American users, according to the FBI. Addressing a US Senate hearing on Wednesday, FBI director Christopher Wray said the Chinese-owned video app “screams” of security concerns. He told a Senate Intelligence Committee on worldwide threats to US security that China’s government could

A passenger who was apparently heard threatening to “kill every man on this plane” before allegedly attacking a flight attendant with a broken metal spoon was caught on video. Francisco Severo Torres, 33, was filmed screaming from his seat during a United Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Boston. In the video, he can be

Two out of four Americans who went missing after being violently kidnapped in the Mexican northern border state of Tamaulipas have been found dead. The other two US citizens are alive, the state’s governor said on Tuesday, and later were confirmed to be back on US soil where they were taken to hospital for treatment.

A man has been charged and arrested after allegedly attempting to open an emergency exit door while onboard a flight from Los Angeles to Boston – before then trying to stab a flight attendant in the neck, prosecutors have said. Francisco Severo Torres, 33, was charged with one count of interference and attempted interference with

Four US citizens were shot at and kidnapped by gunmen after they crossed the Mexico border to buy medicine as a search is under way to find them, say authorities. The FBI said the unidentified Americans had entered the northern city of Matamoros from Texas on Friday and were taken after armed men opened fire

The father of Venus and Serena Williams has defended actor Will Smith over his slapping of comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars – marking almost one year since the incident. Smith, 54, played Richard Williams in the biopic film King Richard, which won him best actor at the 94th Academy Awards last year. Last year’s

It feels like we’ve just sat through one of Prince Harry’s therapy sessions. More than that, we’ve all just paid £17.99 for the privilege, albeit with a free copy of Spare thrown in. This was billed as an “intimate conversation” and that’s exactly what we got, over an hour of Prince Harry talking us through

The first photo of South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh since he was sentenced for the murder of his wife and son has been released. The new mugshot, from the South Carolina Department of Corrections, shows Murdaugh with a shaved head and wearing a yellow prison jumpsuit. The department said he will stay in South Carolina’s

A US woman who was declared legally dead after disappearing more than three decades ago has turned up alive in Puerto Rico, her family and police have said. Patricia Kopta, now 83, had last been seen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1992 when investigators began looking into her disappearance. She was known to be an “eccentric”

US approval of the abortion medication mifepristone has been revoked, in a decision that could further disrupt reproductive healthcare for millions of people. Mifepristone blocks the hormone needed to maintain a pregnancy and has been approved in the US since 2000 for medical abortion and miscarriage management. It is used safely in more than 60

A lesion removed from President Joe Biden’s chest a month ago was cancerous, a White House doctor has confirmed. The lesion was a basal cell carcinoma – a common form of skin cancer – the president’s long-term physician, Dr Kevin O’Connor, said on Friday. Mr Biden, 80, requires no further treatment after “all cancerous tissue

Alex Murdaugh has been convicted of murdering his wife and son after a six-week trial that revealed the prominent lawyer’s spectacular fall from grace. The 54-year-old shot his wife Margaret, 52, four or five times with a rifle outside dog kennels on their rural Colleton County property in South Carolina on 7 June 2021. On

The company behind betting brands Betfair, Paddy Power, PokerStars and Tombola broke new records amid deregulation in the US. The FTSE 100 constituent company and world’s largest listed gambling company, Flutter, had a record Super Bowl and its highest number of average monthly players in the final quarter of 2022, its preliminary results for the

Drugs designed to treat diabetes and repurposed as miracle diet aids have taken over TikTok. The weight loss caused by these weekly injectables is rapid and previously unattainable, people boast, showing off newly svelte bodies. But what are these drugs, how do they work – and what were they originally designed to do? Mounjaro, Ozempic,

DNA evidence from an alleged sexual assault in 1994 has led to the arrest of a man for a 43-year-old murder in California. Harold Carpenter, 63, is believed to have killed Patricia Carnahan in 1979, the El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office in California said. Ms Carnahan’s body was found at a campground at Lake

The director of the FBI has said the agency believes COVID-19 “most likely” came from a lab leak in China. “The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan,” Christopher Wray told Fox News. Mr Wray said he could not

China has denounced the US over its TikTok bans, saying it has been “abusing state power”. Congress and more than half of US states have banned TikTok from government-issued mobile devices, following cybersecurity concerns. TikTok is used by two-thirds of American teenagers but there is concern in Washington that China could use its legal and

The trial of a prominent US lawyer for the murder of his wife and son has prompted the reopening of investigations into other deaths. Alex Murdaugh, 54, is accused of shooting dead his wife Margaret, 52, and their youngest son Paul, 22, on their estate in South Carolina. Prosecutors say the lawyer carried out the

Fox Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch has admitted that some Fox News commentators endorsed false claims made by Donald Trump and his allies that the 2020 presidential election was stolen – and that he didn’t try to stop them. The claims are from a deposition unsealed on Monday, which is part of a lawsuit against the

Disney’s self-governing district that it uses to run its Florida theme parks has been taken over by the state’s governor, in an apparent punishment for its opposition to legislation about LGBTQ+ education. Ron DeSantis, who is widely tipped as a challenger for the White House next year, signed a bill taking control of Reedy Creek