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In a characteristically bombastic speech, former President Donald Trump has spoken for the first time publicly about the Capitol riots hearing – dismissing it as “crazy” and a “theatrical production of partisan political fiction”. At the Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference on Friday in Nashville, Mr Trump described the riots on 6 January 2021 –

A pensioner shot dead three guests at a church potluck dinner in a wealthy suburb of Alabama. Police said the 71-year-old man, who had previously attended services at the St Stephen’s Episcopal Church, pulled out a handgun at the event and killed three elderly participants, one of whom died in his wife’s arms. Another guest

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the United States acts as if it is “sent by God to Earth with their sacred interests” in a combative speech delivered at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday. He vowed that nothing will be as it used to be in global politics and accused the US of

Amber Heard was “ice cold” and “didn’t seem natural” in court, a juror in the multimillion-dollar libel case brought by her ex-husband Johnny Depp has said. Speaking anonymously to Good Morning America, he revealed one of the reasons that the jury ruled against the actress was because her testimony “didn’t come across as believable”. “It

Donald Trump “poured gasoline on the fire” during the riots at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021, a House investigation has heard. And some of Mr Trump’s closest advisers thought an attempt to overturn the 2020 US presidential election was “crazy”, the select committee has also been told. The latest session focused on an

A Republican state representative who describes himself as a death penalty supporter has said he believes that death row inmate Richard Glossip is innocent. Kevin McDugle, from Oklahoma, was responding to a report by a Houston law firm into Glossip’s case. He said: “We’ve got an individual sitting on death row that has been there

A dozen children were served floor sealant instead of milk at a day care summer programme at a school in Alaska. Several students complained that their mouths and throats were burning shortly after being served breakfast on Tuesday, and at least one child was taken to hospital for treatment. Police in the Alaskan state capital

The man who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan has been fully released 41 years after the shooting. John Hinckley Jr, now 67, seriously wounded the US president during an attack in 1981. He spent decades in a Washington mental health unit having been acquitted by reason of insanity at a trial in 1982. Now he

The US central bank has raised interest rates by 0.75 percentage points for the second time in a row in an attempt to curb soaring inflation. The US Federal Reserve said it expects that “ongoing increases” will be needed despite evidence of a slowing economy and concerns that aggressive hikes could lead to a recession.

Jason Storms, his wife Sara and their 10 children are spending the day together in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The two oldest girls play guitar and sing. Three-year-old Charlotte is pushing five-month-old Hazel around in a doll’s pram while one of their boys is scrolling on a smartphone. It could be any happy family on a sunny

Teachers and staff will be able to carry firearms into school after a maximum of 24 hours of training under new legislation. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, a Republican, signed a bill into law allowing school districts the option of arming workers on Monday. The move is being opposed by major law enforcement groups, gun control

Floodwaters have swept away homes, whole bridges and chunks of road, and 100 million Americans have been placed under heatwave warnings to stay at home, as the United States is hit with a surge of extreme weather events over just two days. Torrential rain and a melting snowpack triggered the deluge that forced the evacuation

Amber Heard has broken her silence following Johnny Depp’s win in their high-profile libel trial, saying she does not blame the jury for not believing her and that she did not have “fair representation” thanks to social media. The actress spoke out in her first on-camera interview following the jury’s verdict – which found in

A potential breakthrough that could lead to the first significant new US gun law in decades has been announced by a bipartisan group of senators. The framework for a firearms safety bill is a response to last month’s mass shootings but the proposal falls far short of tougher steps long sought by President Joe Biden

People travelling to the United States will no longer have to show proof of a negative COVID test. The change was announced by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday and came into effect on Sunday morning. Testing requirements for people entering the US from abroad was one of the last remaining

Thousands of people have rallied in Washington DC and across the US to demand politicians tighten gun controls. It comes after 19 children and two teachers were killed last month at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, but there have been many other examples of mass shootings. In Washington DC, Martin Luther King Jr’s granddaughter

A US judge has dismissed the Las Vegas rape lawsuit against football star Cristiano Ronaldo. The Manchester United star had paid a woman $375,000 in hush money after she claimed he raped her in Las Vegas in 2009. The lawsuit sought a further payout, which might have run into millions of dollars, but US District

Petrol prices in the United States have topped five dollars a gallon for the first time ever, as global oil prices continue to soar amid the war in Ukraine. Car club AAA said while the average price on Saturday was $5, motorists in some parts of the country, especially California, are paying far above that.

Donald Trump has rebuked his daughter and former White House aide Ivanka after she rejected the former president’s claim of fraud at the 2020 US election. Mr Trump said his daughter was not involved in looking at election results and “had long since checked out”. The comments were made in the aftermath of a hearing

An investigation into the US Capitol riots has heard that close allies of former president Donald Trump – and even his daughter – rejected his false claims of election fraud, with one calling it “bulls**t”. On the first of six days of public hearings before a House of Representatives select committee, a never-seen-before 12-minute graphic