Photo featuring future president and first lady alongside convicted paedophile and alleged accomplice has been widely distributed before

Brazillian president tells supporters he will undergo diagnostic check after lung X-ray

Mike Pompeo said users were putting their data ‘in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party’

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Director of health institute says Spaniards ‘can’t relax’ and must protect each other

US President believes the names represent ‘STRENGTH’ and that considering a change to be ‘politically correct’ represents weakness

Hashimi was a prominent expert on both armed Shia militias and Sunni insurgents groups

Hashimi was a prominent expert on both armed Shia militias and Sunni insurgents groups

Hashemi was a prominent expert on both armed Shia militias and Sunni insurgents groups

Australia is to bring back strict stay-at-home measures in Melbourne and parts of the broader Victoria state, the local government has said, after it reported a…

Decision comes amid new national security law that requires apps hand over people’s private data

Press secretary insists country has done ‘extraordinary work’ in controlling virus death rate

‘This pipeline should have never been built here’

‘The act by a sitting president to muzzle a private citizen is just the latest in a series of disturbing behaviours which have already destabilised a…

‘We don’t always have the political power to push these large agencies to give us what we need,’ says Abigail Echo-Hawk, director of Urban Indian Health…

She thought she was sending a private message: ‘That was an error on my part’

‘At the end of the day, our future is getting hurt,’ says child’s father, Nathan Wallace

Officers had to form a barricade between group and family so they could leave, report says

Florida uptick in infections among 18- to 34-year-olds in May and June attributed to graduation parties and restaurants

A woman who falsely told New York police that a black man who asked for her dog to be leashed was “threatening” her life is to…

Donald Trump has slammed efforts to rename prominent sports teams amid nationwide Black Lives Matter protests sparked by the death of George Floyd, suggesting “Indians” must…

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany continued to evade questions from reporters on Monday about why NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace should apologise for his actions after…

Maxwell will not be held in same jail where Epstein died

The 59-year-old was discovered approximately 100 ft below the rim

French President Emmanuel Macron ousted his interior minister as part of a government shakeup Monday after protests against police brutality.

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, whose city is recovering from several shootings over a violent holiday weekend, has tested positive for coronavirus, she announced on Monday.

Country music star Charlie Daniels, best known for the song The Devil Went Down to Georgia, has passed away at the age of 83.

Country music star Charlie Daniels, best known for the song The Devil Went Down to Georgia, has passed away at the age of 83.

‘It’s apparent I previously lacked an adequate understanding of the severity of [Holocaust victims’] experience,’ Dane Hicks admits

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has declared a state of emergency after more than 30 people were injured and five people – including an 8-year-old girl –…

Africa could become new epicentre with disease peaking in two to three months

President continues to lose support in parts of the country where Covid-19 is rapidly spreading

Fake ad promised protests against police violence at the site of the Civil War battle

Eighty-seven per cent of rejected travellers were Americans

Rafic Hariri University Hospital ‘barely making ends meet’ and has just a few weeks left of generator fuel, director-general warns

Socialite and confidante of Jeffrey Epstein arrested last week on multiple counts of sex exploitation and abuse

States can make members of the presidential electoral college honour the results of the popular vote and cast their ballots for their pledged candidates, the Supreme…

Thirty-two states have laws addressing ‘faithless electors’, though only 16 of those penalise or cancel such votes

Campaign organisers promise hand sanitiser and masks amid pandemic concerns

Iran may be compelled to respond to any attack on critical site at Natanz

Nascar driver Bubba Wallace says he will respond with “love over hate” after Donald Trump lashed out at the black driver and demanded he apologise after…

‘We’re committed to bringing you the facts about the virus and the most knowledgeable guests that we can,’ says Margaret Brennan

Man and woman clad in Trump campaign attire exchange angry words with onlookers and disdain ‘false narrative’ of racism

Truck carrying cocaine was found nearby, authorities say

Vehicles were seen leaving the area as military dismantled tents, according to government sources

President Donald Trump slammed the people responsible for ripping a statue of Frederick Douglass from its base in upstate New York, writing in a tweet on…

Monument of former abolitionist built on site along the Underground Railroad toppled during Independence Day weekend

More than third of city centre is taken over by private holiday lets

Pro-Trump candidate KW Miller cites unsubstantiated theories about Beyonce and Black Lives Matter

She was declared dead at the scene, theme park says

China has accused the UK of “gross interference” in Hong Kong’s affairs over Britain’s offer to give British National Overseas (BNO) passport-holders in Hong Kong a…

Thirteen people remain missing on island of Kyushu

Street gun violence has to stop if movement against police violence is to succeed, Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms says

Only US and Brazil have more cases than India, after another daily rise of well over 20,000 cases takes it above Russia

Hundreds of thousands of litres leak into Iloilo Strait

Professor Xu Zhangrun repeatedly criticised the growing influence of the Communist party