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The US has offered Russia a prisoner swap deal, in an effort to bring home two jailed Americans, including basketball star Brittney Griner. The Women’s NBA player was arrested at Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow on 17 February as she made her way back to Russia to play for UMMC Yekaterinburg, during the US Women’s National

The US Attorney General has given his clearest indication yet that former President Donald Trump could be prosecuted for his role in attempting to overthrow the result of the 2020 election. In an interview with NBC News, Merrick Garland spoke more explicitly than he has ever before about the Justice Department investigation into the 6

There was a small but noisy crowd waiting to greet Donald Trump for his return to ‘the swamp’.  “Indict Donald Trump” they chanted outside a hotel hosting the America First Agenda Summit where the former US president was the star speaker. Mr Trump has not set foot in Washington DC since January last year when

A flashy Rolls Royce-driving Gucci suit-wearing New York priest says his showy lifestyle was not to blame for a gunpoint robbery that happened during one of his live-streamed services. Dramatic footage shown on Bishop Lamor Miller-Whitehead’s social media live platforms captured the moment three hooded, masked gunmen burst into his service and stole the hundreds

Ghislaine Maxwell has been moved to a low-security prison in Florida, according to official documents. The 60-year-old was found guilty of luring young girls to massage rooms for disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein to molest between 1994 and 2004. She lodged an appeal against the sex trafficking conviction and 20-year sentence earlier this month. Prison documents

A six-year-old girl and her parents have been shot dead while camping in Iowa, police have said. The US state’s public safety department said the bodies of Sarah and Tyler Schmidt, both 42, and their daughter Lula were found in their tent in the Maquoketa Caves State Park. A relative said the couple’s nine-year-old son,

China’s military has become significantly more dangerous and aggressive over the past five years, the US’ top military officer has warned. Speaking in Indonesia, General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the number of intercepts by Chinese aircraft and ships in the Pacific region on US and other partner forces has

Thousands of people have been ordered to flee their homes and businesses near a fast-moving wildfire near Yosemite National Park on Saturday. The bush fire which started on Friday afternoon has now exploded to cover more than 26 square kilometres (10 square miles) according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Evacuation orders

A man charged with trying to kill his sister – who recently woke from a two-year coma to name him as her attacker – has died. Daniel J Palmer III died on Thursday at a hospital in Charleston, West Virginia, six days after he was charged with attempted murder and malicious wounding of his sister

Joe Biden intermittently coughed his way through a virtual White House meeting, a day on from his testing positive for COVID. Mr Biden, who at 79 is the oldest person ever to serve as US president, appeared in good spirits but had a noticeably deeper voice and apologised for repeatedly breaking away from his speech

Donald Trump’s former adviser, Steve Bannon, has been found guilty of contempt of Congress after refusing to appear before the US Capitol riots hearing. Bannon was charged with two counts of criminal contempt – each carrying up to a year in jail. He will be sentenced in October. Outside the courtroom, he said he respected

Donald Trump watched the Capitol riots on television in his dining room and failed to take “immediate action in a time of crisis”, an investigation has heard. During the eighth hearing into the January 6 riots, the committee was told that the former president was aiming to stop or delay the congressional certification of Joe

An ex-police officer has been handed a two-and-a-half years prison sentence for his role in the killing of George Floyd. Back in February, Thomas Lane was found guilty of depriving Mr Floyd of medical care as he lay dying under then-officer Derek Chauvin’s knee in May 2020. Appearing in court on Thursday, Lane did not

Vladimir Putin is “entirely too healthy”, the head of the CIA has said, playing down rumours the Russian president is suffering a serious illness such as cancer. William Burns, in a rare public appearance, also said Russia’s leader would be proved wrong in a belief he can win a bloody war of attrition against Ukraine

Donald Trump joined other family members as they paid their respects to his ex-wife Ivana Trump at her funeral in New York. Ms Trump, 73, who was the first wife of the former US president, died suddenly last Thursday at her home in Manhattan. Her death was ruled an accident by authorities, with the cause

A $5,000 reward has been posted as police continue to search for a man allegedly involved in the attempted murder of Lady Gaga’s dog walker, after he was accidentally released from jail. James Howard Jackson was being held on an attempted murder charge but was released from a jail in Los Angeles “due to a

An internal review has been launched into the inaction of dozens of police officers who failed to intervene as a gunman murdered 19 children and two teachers at a Texas primary school. The massacre by Salvador Ramos at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on 24 May was the focus of a damning report released on

A grizzly bear which mauled a woman to death in a rare predatory attack in Montana had become “food-conditioned”. Leah Davis Lokan, 65, had encountered the bear about an hour before the attack and was able to scare it away, but it returned around 4am and killed her. Experts believe the bear was attracted to

The US Office star Craig Robinson has thanked security and staff for helping people to safety after a man fired a gun inside a comedy club where he was set to perform. Robinson, best known for playing Darryl Philbin in the American adaption of Ricky Gervais’s hit British comedy, shared a video on social media

Three people have been killed and two injured in a shooting at a mall food court in Indiana after a man with a rifle opened fire. The man entered Greenwood Park Mall and began firing, fatally injuring three people before eventually being killed himself by an armed civilian, police say. Officers went to the mall