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Former speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has been taken to hospital in Luxembourg after suffering an injury during an “official engagement”. The 84-year-old’s office said she was “currently receiving excellent treatment from doctors and medical professionals” after she “sustained an injury”, but did not give any further details. The AP news

Fourteen North Korean nationals have been accused of using false identities to get IT jobs with US companies and siphon money back to their communist country. The practice, if proven, is in violation of US sanctions against the restrictive nation. An indictment filed in a federal court in Missouri alleges that $88m (£70m) was generated

Joe Biden has said he will commute the sentences of almost 1,500 non-violent offenders and pardon 39 others in the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history. The outgoing president said in a statement that America “was built on the promise of possibility and second chances”. He called it a “great privilege” of his

Mark Zuckerberg’s firm Meta has donated $1m to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund as the Facebook founder tries to mend ties with the president-elect. In August, Mr Trump threatened to imprison the billionaire if he did “anything illegal” to influence the presidential election. But last month the pair dined together at Mr Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in

A woman whose father took his own life after she went missing has been “found safe”, her family and police have said. Hannah Kobayashi, 30, flew from Hawaii to Los Angeles early last month. She was intending to take another flight to New York on 8 November but missed her connection. She vanished days later

Police say fingerprints of the man suspected of shooting dead a US health insurance boss match those found near the crime scene in New York, according to Sky News’ US partner NBC News. Luigi Mangione has been charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson, who was shot dead in Manhattan last week.

The alleged killer of a US health insurance boss has tussled with police officers as they were escorting him to court. Luigi Mangione, in handcuffs, shouted to reporters outside the Pennsylvania courthouse: “It’s completely out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the American people and their lived experience.” He has been charged

I wasn’t the only one who locked eyes with Luigi Mangione.   As he shuffled along the carpeted corridor of Blair County Courthouse, he scanned the faces of the waiting media lined against a wall and his eyes had an intensity and a disdain that asked: “What are you looking at?” The 26-year-old was a

Luigi Nicholas Mangione has been charged with murdering UnitedHealthcare’s CEO Brian Thompson. Police arrested Mangione on Monday after a McDonald’s employee in Pennsylvania alerted authorities to a customer, who was found with a gun, mask and writings linking him to the ambush. The 26-year-old, who was charged earlier in Altoona with weapons, forgery and other

A man is being questioned in connection with the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, according to Sky News’ US partner NBC News. A man in central Pennsylvania drew the attention of investigators because he was found with a similar gun to the one used in last week’s shooting in New York City, NBC

Police divers are combing through underwater areas of New York’s Central Park in the hunt for evidence about the killer of a healthcare boss. Detectives searching for the man believed to have targeted UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson have found a backpack and have multiple images of the suspect. But, so far, they have not found

Police have released two new images of a man suspected of shooting healthcare executive Brian Thompson in New York earlier this week. UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot dead outside a Manhattan hotel on Wednesday morning, while he was on the way to the company’s annual conference. The shooting sparked a citywide manhunt – but

Prince William will meet Donald Trump in Paris ahead of the ceremony marking the restoration of Notre-Dame Cathedral. The Prince of Wales is expected to discuss the importance of the US-UK’s “special relationship” with the president-elect. He will also be meeting with outgoing first lady Jill Biden, President Joe Biden’s wife, Kensington Palace added. Read

Milk will be tested for bird flu across the US in a bid to contain a virus spreading among farms. A strand of the virus known as H5N1 – which has also been identified in birds in the UK – was detected in dairy cows in the US for the first time in March. Since

Donald Trump arrives in France today where he will meet numerous global heads of state for the first time since his re-election. It’s understood the meetings will include time with Prince William. The heads of state or other representatives of more than 50 countries are in Paris to attend the reopening of the Notre-Dame Cathedral

Elon Musk spent more than $250m (£196m) helping Donald Trump win this year’s US election, Sky News’ US partner NBC News reports. Part of this was said to include a late blitz of advertising from a super PAC into which Mr Musk poured $20m (£15.7m) that claimed Mr Trump did not support a federal abortion

People in California were told to prepare for a tsunami after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of northern California. Around 4.7 million people were under the tsunami warning in the state which was lifted around an hour after it was put in place. The quake had struck around 39 miles southwest of

New images have been released of the suspect wanted over the targeted murder of a healthcare boss in New York City. Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, was gunned down outside a Manhattan hotel yesterday morning before the start of a conference. Police say the gunman was wearing a mask and footage has shown

Video has emerged of the moments before the murder of a top healthcare boss on a New York City street in what police believe was a targeted hit. Brian Thompson is shown walking in Manhattan when the killer appears from behind a car and raises a gun – believed to have been fitted with a

An executive at a major US healthcare company has been shot dead in Manhattan. Brian Thompson, 50, was fatally shot in the chest on Wednesday morning outside the Hilton hotel in midtown Manhattan. He was the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare’s insurance unit. UnitedHealth did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The company cancelled

Donald Trump has filed a motion to dismiss the hush money case in which he was convicted due to his victory in the US presidential election. In May, a New York jury found Mr Trump guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records to commit election fraud. It was the first time a US president

The unsolved killing of a six-year-old beauty pageant queen is still a priority for investigators, police have insisted. JonBenet Ramsey was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family home in Colorado in 1996, a case revisited in a three-part Netflix series. Her killer has never been found, and the police department for

US President-elect Donald Trump has nominated investment banker Warren Stephens to be his ambassador to the UK. Mr Trump made the announcement in a post on social media, calling him “one of the most successful businessmen in the country”. Mr Stephens is chairman, president, and CEO of Stephens Inc, a privately owned financial services company

President Biden had seemed so adamant. He would leave the Justice Department to make its own decisions. Hunter Biden would not be granted clemency for gun and tax convictions just because he was the president’s son. But that was before he dropped out of the presidential race. A lot has changed since then. A lifetime

President Joe Biden has issued a pardon for his son Hunter, who has been convicted of gun charges and pleaded guilty to federal tax evasion. In a statement released by the White House, the US president said he had given clemency to Hunter, who was due to be sentenced later this month on two separate

Donald Trump promised retribution on the campaign trail and his nomination of ultra-loyalist Kash Patel to FBI director is a sure-fire sign that he plans to deliver on it. That bodes ill for a huge cast of characters, across the US’s top law enforcement agency and the Department of Justice, who have sought to investigate

Donald Trump is set to make another controversial addition to his top team after saying he wants convicted tax evader Charles Kushner to serve as ambassador to France. The president-elect made the announcement in a Truth Social post, calling Mr Kushner “a tremendous business leader, philanthropist, & dealmaker”. The real estate developer is the father

An American football player has died a month after suffering a head-on-head collision during a college game. Medrick Burnett Jr was playing for Alabama A&M University against Alabama State University on 26 October – the day before his birthday – when the severe injury occurred. His sister said on his GoFundMe page that the 20-year-old

The annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in New York has been disrupted by protests over the conflict in Gaza for the second year running. The steady rain drenching the city didn’t put New Yorkers off celebrating the 98th running of the event, with ponchos and umbrellas much in evidence amid the traditional assortment of balloons,

A stowaway managed to fly from the US to France without a ticket before being discovered on the flight. The woman was caught onboard Delta Airlines flight 264 from New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris on Tuesday. A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) spokesperson said she was able

Donald Trump’s pick for health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr once labelled the agency responsible for vaccine rollouts in the US a “fascist” enterprise and accused it of knowingly hurting children. Mr Kennedy, a vaccine sceptic, also compared what he saw as a widespread conspiracy to hide harms from the US’ child vaccination programme to

A man has been charged with threatening to kill Donald Trump. Authorities arrested Manuel Tamayo-Torres on Monday in southern California. He is accused of posting videos on social media threatening to kill the president-elect, according to court documents. In one video, posted on 13 November, Tamayo-Torres threatened to shoot the 78-year-old while holding what authorities

Several people nominated to roles in Donald Trump’s incoming cabinet and administration have been targeted by bomb threats and “swatting,” a spokesperson for the US president-elect has said. The threats were made on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning and law enforcement acted quickly to ensure the safety of those targeted, Karoline Leavitt said. In a