Individual known in court as PPT is seeking a permanent injunction, with lawyers citing his risk of suicideTwo news organisations have a duty to the public and their sources to publish allegations of exploitative sexual behaviour by a well-known figure despite claims he is “highl...
Both Obama and Trump are on the campaign trail, but only one of them appears to be descending into madnessThis was originally published in This Week in Trumpland. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday.Barack Obama versus Donald Trump. It is the presidential election...
Twin brothers, 22, from Ghana and a 53-year-old American woman targeted older adults in 25 US states, officials sayThree people have pleaded guilty in a $9m romance fraud scam that targeted elderly Americans.On Monday, the US attorney’s office in the northern district of Ohio ann...
Trump heads to Ohio while Vance travels to North Carolina; Republican US senator Lisa Murkowski endorses Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, breaking with her partySign up for the Breaking News US emailFor months, Mary Peltola’s campaign for Alaska’s Senate seat has denied any connection to...
Huerta co-founded United Farm Workers union with Cesar Chavez, improving pay and conditions for farm workersSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailDolores Huerta, a celebrated 1960s labor union leader and civil rights activist, died on Wednesday in California at the age...
The $72.5m suit alleges Scott Jennings falsely told listeners Piker had a ‘plan of returning our country to lynchings’The prominent socialist political commentator and influencer Hasan Piker is suing his conservative counterpart Scott Jennings for $72.5m over comments on a podcas...
Warnings of escalating clampdown on press freedom come after Cairo court convicts Attalah of managing an unlicensed websiteLina Attalah, a prominent Egyptian journalist and the editor-in-chief of the news outlet Mada Masr, has been released from detention by Egypt’s authorities a...
Jean Kaseya, of the Africa CDC, warns of the illness spreading like Covid unless more funding is secured to increase preparedness and possible treatmentThe “unprecedented” spread of the Ebola outbreak means it could reach the UK and other countries, according to one of Africa’s t...
Commanders suspected of sexual violence during the largest and fastest slaughter of civilians in more than 30 years have been subjected to travel ban and asset freezeSenior Sudanese commanders implicated in a “campaign of rape” have been targeted by the UK on the first anniversar...
Exclusive: Coordinated airstrikes on territory held by al-Shabaab are driving the civilian population to find refuge alongside a river where rising water levels are a threat to safety. Is it a deliberate military strategy?The water was rising rapidly. It had already reached Cayni...
Rapid Support Forces strike five power stations in three states controlled by Sudanese armySudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have launched a coordinated drone attack against five power stations, causing mass power outages across the country’s east, a government official s...
Far-right senator and family land in US after crossing from Brazil into Argentina and then flying via EcuadorA jet carrying the Brazilian far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro has landed in Miami, Florida, where the losing candidate in Sunday’s presidential election runoff left the ...
Mexican police had said they found Shayna Feinman in Tijuana, raising the hopes of missing Arizonan’s familyArizona authorities say their Mexican counterparts were resoundingly mistaken when they publicly claimed recently that they found alive a woman who was feared slain after d...
Royal tour of Caribbean comes as poll suggests majority support among younger Britons for dialogue on slavery reparationsKing Charles has confirmed he will discuss the legacy of slavery at a summit with Commonwealth leaders as he begins his Caribbean tour.The king arrived in the ...
Far-right senator and his family boarded private plane to Ecuador after crossing border to Argentina, Argentina’s government confirmsThe far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro has reportedly fled Brazil and is on his way to the United States after losing Sunday’s presidential electio...
President at Texas campaign rally hails deal struck with post-Maduro government as ‘greatest oil victory in history’Donald Trump suggested Venezuela would become the 51st state of the United States on Tuesday as the president showed off a tanker he claimed had “one million barrel...
Lack of profits and the threat posed by western countries are raising concern about the sustainability of Beijing’s AI boomTrillions of dollars have been wiped from China’s stock markets in recent months amid increasing anxiety about the future of artificial intelligence, as Beij...
US military says the restrictions on the electric vehicles at Kadena airbase also apply to delivery drivers and taxisOne of America’s biggest overseas military bases has banned vehicles made by the Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD over security concerns, the US military in Japa...