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A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of killing five people in North Carolina and is in a critical condition in hospital, US police have said. The boy, who has not been named, is alleged to have fatally shot two people in the state’s capital city of Raleigh before opening fire on a walking

Donald Trump has responded to a congressional committee that wants to hear his evidence about the assault on the US Capitol building, but he hasn’t said whether he will appear. In a memo to members of the January 6 committee, he didn’t address their subpoena calling on him to give evidence before them. Rather, he

Elon Musk is being investigated by federal authorities over his conduct in his $44bn (£39bn) takeover deal of Twitter, the social media company has said in a court filing. The world’s richest man recently announced he would go ahead with purchasing the platform for the huge sum, following months of legal battles. Twitter, which sued

He calls it the “Unselect Committee” and his appearance before it is uncertain, to say the least. Certainly, Donald Trump showed no inclination in the wake of his subpoena. “The committee is a total BUST that has only served to further divide our country,” he opined on his Truth Social media platform. From its start,

The congressional panel investigating the deadly attack on the US Capitol has voted to subpoena Donald Trump. It was a unanimous vote and the former president will now be compelled to give evidence to the committee about the events of 6 January 2021 which saw five people killed and hundreds, including many law enforcement officers,

A police officer on duty during the US Capitol riots has described it as a “medieval battle scene” in which he was beaten and tasered before suffering a heart attack. Michael Fanone told Sky News he thought he would die after becoming detached from his colleagues and being “struck from every direction” during the riots

A jury has ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay $965m in damages to families of those killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting. After a gunman killed 20 children and six members of staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in December 2012, Jones accused bereaved relatives of being actors who had faked

NASA has said a spacecraft that deliberately crashed into an asteroid last month has successfully shifted its orbit. Findings of telescope observations showed that the suicide test flight of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart) spacecraft on 26 September achieved its primary objective: to change the trajectory of the asteroid. NASA attempted the first test

Dame Angela Lansbury, who starred in the TV show Murder, She Wrote and the film Beauty and the Beast, has died at the age of 96. Her family said in a statement: “The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles

Three lucky fishermen have been rescued from shark-infested waters in the Gulf of Mexico. The men had been stranded in the water after their 24-foot fishing boat sank at around 10am on Saturday morning, leaving them without any means of communication. US Coast Guard Heartland said two of the men were fending off sharks with

A two-year-old boy has been safely reunited with his family after their car was stolen with him inside. He was taken in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as his parents were putting another child on a bus – and it was school bus drivers who helped find the boy. Dave Skinner was on his route last Tuesday

Anna “Delvey” Sorokin, the con artist who swindled Manhattan’s elite by posing as a German heiress, says she got “exactly what I wanted” after her release from jail. In her first interview since getting out, she told the New York Times she is “really happy” to be out of jail and added that “nothing was

England have beaten the world champions USA in a friendly match at Wembley. The Lionesses, who won the European Championship in July, went ahead through Lauren Hemp’s 10th-minute finish before Sophia Smith equalised in the 28th minute after Georgia Stanway lost possession near her own box. England then benefited from two VAR checks – one

The school district at the centre of the mass shooting at a primary school in Uvalde, Texas, has suspended its entire police force. Following a review conducted into the massacre at the Robb Elementary School in which 21 people, including 19 children, were killed, the district has announced two police officers will go on “administrative

The professional wrestler and reality TV star known as Sara Lee has died suddenly at the age of 30. Her real name was Sara Weston and in 2015 she won Tough Enough, a competition in which contestants vied for a contract with WWE, the professional wrestling organisation. She had been a competitive powerlifter and was

Two people have died and six have been injured during a knife attack outside a casino on the Las Vegas Strip. The attacker, named by police as Yoni Barrios, 32, was armed with a large kitchen knife during the “unprovoked” attack. Showgirls and street performers are believed to be among those injured in the attack

The FBI has reportedly gathered enough evidence to charge Joe Biden’s son with tax crimes and making a false statement to buy a gun. Hunter Biden, 52, has been under investigation since 2018 and has denied any wrongdoing. FBI agents are said to have a “viable case” against the son of the US president which

US President Joe Biden has said the world is facing the biggest threat of nuclear “Armageddon” since the days of President Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Speaking at a Democratic Party fundraiser in New York, his ‘off camera’ comments were overheard by journalists from the White House pool. It comes as Russian officials warned

US vice president Kamala Harris was involved in a car accident that was initially reported to Secret Service chiefs as a “mechanical failure” – though the vehicle hit a kerb and she was transferred to another car. The agent driving her on Monday to work at the White House struck the side pavement of a

A baby girl, her parents and her uncle have been found dead in an orchard days after they were kidnapped at gunpoint in central California. Eight-month-old Aroohi Dheri, her parents Jasleen Kaur and Jasdeep Singh, and her uncle Amandeep Singh, were kidnapped by a man on Monday from their business in Merced, San Joaquin Valley.