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New Orleans has held a vigil to mourn the lives of the 14 people killed when a truck was driven into revellers celebrating the new year. Some of the relatives of those killed were among those who gathered on Saturday night on Bourbon Street, the famous French Quarter thoroughfare where the attack took place, The

A major winter storm has hit America, producing heavy snow and significant ice which is expected to last days. Road conditions have become increasingly dangerous in the central US since Saturday, with snow in the most heavily affected regions – Kansas and northern Missouri – predicted to reach as high as 35.6cm. Some 60 million

Six days of funeral events are under way for the former US president Jimmy Carter. The 100-year-old Democrat, who served one term in office from 1977 to 1981, died at his home in Plains, Georgia, surrounded by his family on 29 December. He was the oldest living former US president. A motorcade with his flag-draped

A British citizen is one of 14 people who were killed when a man drove a truck into crowds celebrating the New Year in New Orleans. The city’s coroner said the preliminary cause of death for the British citizen was blunt force injuries. Their identity has been temporarily withheld at the request of the family

A judge has ordered US president-elect Donald Trump to be sentenced next week in his New York hush money case – but has suggested he will not jail him. In a surprise move, Trump‘s sentencing in the case has been set for 10 January – a little over a week before his inauguration on 20

Did the authorities fail the victims of the New Orleans terror attack? It’s barely in question, surely. And yet, consider the response of Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick of New Orleans police when I asked if she’d let them down by not having an appropriate security plan. “That’s not correct, we would disagree with that.” “It has

The brother of a victim of the New Orleans attack has revealed what the pair last said to each other. “The last thing we ever said to each other, he told me he loved me”, Jack Bech said of his brother Martin “Tiger” Bech, 27, as he spoke with Sky News’s US correspondent James Matthews.

A Tesla cybertruck explosion outside one of Donald Trump’s US hotels is being investigated as a potential terror attack. The driver, who was inside the vehicle when it caught fire, died in the incident and seven other people were injured. The blast happened as the truck was just outside the president-elect’s hotel in Las Vegas,

At least 10 people have been killed after a vehicle struck a crowd celebrating the New Year in New Orleans, emergency officials have said. Another 30 people have been injured in the incident, which took place on the corner of the popular Bourbon Street, in the French Quarter of the city. It happened at around

A Rolex stolen from John Wick star Keanu Reeves has been found in Chile, according to police in the South American country. The watch, which is believed to have been taken from the Hollywood actor in Los Angeles in December 2023, was discovered after an arrest linked to crimes in the nation’s capital Santiago. Pictures

A woman who died this month after being set on fire inside a New York subway train has been identified by police as a 57-year-old woman from New Jersey. The woman, Debrina Kawam, was registered to an address in Toms River, New Jersey, according to New York Police Department (NYPD). Officials had previously said they

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have reached a settlement after eight years in one of the longest and most bitter divorces in Hollywood history. In a statement, Jolie’s attorney James Simon said: “More than eight years ago, Angelina filed for divorce from Mr Pitt. “She and the children left all of the properties they had

Former US president Jimmy Carter has died aged 100. The Carter Centre said its founder, who was the oldest living former US president, died in Plains, the town where he was born in Georgia. Mr Carter, a Democrat, became the 39th US president when he defeated former president Gerald Ford in 1976. The Georgia native

Joe Biden believes he could have beaten Donald Trump in last month’s US presidential election if he had stayed in the race, it has been reported. The White House incumbent – who is set to hand over the keys to Mr Trump next month – withdrew from the race in July amid pressure over his

Dayle Haddon – the actor, activist and former Sports Illustrated model – has died from what authorities believe was carbon monoxide poisoning. Authorities found the 76-year-old dead in a second-floor bedroom on Friday morning after emergency dispatchers were notified about a person unconscious at the house in Solebury Township, Pennsylvania. A 76-year-old man, later identified

The US attorney general tried to block Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams from fundraising in the country in 1995 over a belief the IRA was still trying to source weapons, newly released records show. Janet Reno, the attorney general at the time, had previously opposed then-US president Bill Clinton‘s decision to grant visas for Mr

Bodycam footage showing prison officers fatally beating an inmate has been released by New York’s attorney general. Prison officers at Marcy Correctional Facility in New York punched and kicked 43-year-old Robert Brooks repeatedly while he was handcuffed on an infirmary bed. He died in hospital on 10 December, a day after the attack. The incident

The world’s best golfer has suffered a freak injury while cooking Christmas dinner, forcing him to undergo surgery. Scottie Scheffler sustained a puncture wound after cutting the palm of his right hand on broken glass. The world number one required surgery as small glass fragments remained in the palm after the accident. The injury has

A pizza delivery woman stabbed a pregnant customer over a $2 tip, authorities in the US say. Brianna Alvelo, 22, is charged with attempted murder after allegedly stabbing the woman multiple times at a motel in Kissimmee, Florida. The victim, her boyfriend and her five-year-old daughter were staying at the Riviera Motel to celebrate a

Donald Trump has suggested the US could take control of Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal in a series of Christmas Day social media posts. The president-elect wished a merry Christmas to all on his Truth Social platform, “including to the wonderful soldiers of China, who are lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal”. In