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President Biden’s son Hunter has unexpectedly pleaded not guilty to two tax crimes after a plea deal fell apart in court. The 53-year-old appeared in Delaware after being charged with evading $100,000 (£77,000) in taxes from income of over $1.5m in 2017 and 2018. He had previously reached a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty

The British billionaire owner of Tottenham Hotspur, Joe Lewis has been indicted for orchestrating a “brazen” insider trading scheme, the US attorney in Manhattan has said. In a video posted on messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter, Damian Williams said: “Today I’m announcing that my office, the southern district of New York has indicted

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,

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

A two-year-old boy has died from a brain-eating amoeba in Nevada. Woodrow Bundy died from the Naegleria fowleri infection on Wednesday, his mother said. The boy is believed to have been exposed to the deadly amoeba at a natural hot spring. Woodrow fought for seven days, his mother Briana wrote on Facebook. “He is my

A kidnapped 13-year-old girl has been rescued in California after holding up a handwritten note in her captor’s parked car saying “Help Me!”. A Good Samaritan saw the young girl waving the crumpled piece of paper in the city of Long Beach on 9 July and immediately called 911. Police then arrested a 61-year-old suspect,

A federal judge has set a trial date for former president Donald Trump in the classified US documents case in Florida. It comes after he was charged with illegally retaining hundreds of secret papers. The date has been set for 20 May next year by US District Judge Aileen Cannon. It is being seen as

Each time Vladimir Putin raises the spectre of nuclear confrontation, the trail ultimately leads back to one man. Eighty years before the Russian president invaded Ukraine, and brought the potential of such weapons back to mainstream attention, J Robert Oppenheimer was recruited to lead a team that would construct the world’s first atomic bombs. Ukraine

The pastor lights his cigar as he sits down on the sofa, casting the lit match aside. The floral upholstery starts to burn, the flames get bigger. “It’s not the job of the preacher to be a firefighter,” Doug Wilson says, as the fire spreads. “We’re supposed to be arsonists in the world.” Wilson leads

US officials have attempted to contact North Korean counterparts over an American soldier who bolted across the border from South Korea – but say they are yet to hear back from Pyongyang. Private Second Class Travis T King was on a tour of the Joint Security Area (JSA), on the border of the village of

Sixteen Republicans who allegedly signed paperwork to falsely claim Donald Trump had won the 2020 presidential election have been criminally charged. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said there was a “coordinated effort to award the state’s electoral votes to the candidate of their choosing”. It is the first time anyone has been charged for trying

A kayaker inadvertently filmed his own death on a GoPro camera – but police are yet to find his body. The man, named by police as 43-year-old Paul Jose Rodriguez Jr, was on a glacial lake in Alaska when his kayak capsized in strong currents. At the time, he was wearing a GoPro camera mount

Donald Trump has said he has received a letter notifying him he is a target in a US Justice Department investigation into efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election. Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform that he received the letter informing him on Sunday night. Such a letter

A US man is believed to be in custody in North Korea after he crossed the border without permission during a tour. His identity has not been officially confirmed but South Korean newspaper Dong-a Ilbo said he is a US Army solider named Travis King. It happened as the man was visiting the Joint Security

A desperate search is ongoing for two young siblings who were swept away with their mother and grandmother during flash flooding near the US city of Philadelphia. The two children, a nine-month-old boy and his two-year-old sister, were in a car with both of their parents, their brother and their grandmother, when a creek in

Lionel Messi was unveiled at his new club Inter Miami on Sunday in a glamorous stadium. He was presented with his pink No 10 jersey in a ceremony in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, that left the packed stadium soaked after a downpour. The glitzy unveiling came just one day after Major League Soccer (MLS) and Inter