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Ghislaine Maxwell has officially appealed against her conviction and sentence in the United States for sex trafficking. 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 was sentenced to 20 years in prison at the federal court in the Southern

Derek Chauvin has been given a 21-year jail sentence for violating George Floyd’s civil rights. Chauvin will serve the federal sentence at the same time he serves his 22-and-a-half year sentence on state charges of murder and manslaughter. The former police officer pinned George Floyd to the pavement outside a Minneapolis corner shop for more

US basketball player Brittney Griner has pleaded guilty to drugs charges in a Russian court. The 31-year-old was arrested at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport in February while travelling to play for a Russian team. Police said she was carrying vape canisters with cannabis oil. Speaking today, she told the court: “I’d like to plead guilty, your

An armed policeman at the Uvalde school massacre had an opportunity to shoot the gunman but missed his chance waiting for permission from a supervisor, according to a new report. Two teachers and 19 children died after police waited more than an hour to storm Robb Elementary School when Salvador Rolando Ramos opened fire on

The man charged with killing seven people in a shooting on an Independence Day parade in Chicago has confessed to police that he fired on the crowd. Robert E Crimo III faces seven counts of murder over the shooting in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois, and news of the confession – which was

A two-year-old has been left an orphan after both of his parents were killed when a rooftop sniper opened fire on the Fourth of July parade in Chicago. Irina McCarthy, 35, and Kevin McCarthy, 37, were among at least seven killed in the attack on Monday, in which around 50 people also suffered gunshot wounds

The man suspected of shooting dead six people in Chicago was dressed as a woman to hide his facial tattoos, in a bid to blend in as he escaped the scene, police have said. Robert E Crimo III, 21, was arrested after the shooting at a Fourth of July parade in the Chicago suburb of

The man suspected of killing at least six people and seriously injuring more than 30 at a Fourth of July parade in Chicago has been arrested, police have said. A Highland Park police spokesperson said the suspect, Robert E Crimo III, 22, was spotted by a patrol who tried to initiate a traffic stop. The

Jeff Bezos has clashed with US President Joe Biden’s administration on Twitter over the cost of petrol for American consumers. Mr Biden had tweeted this weekend that “this is a time of war and global peril” and that the companies running gas stations were acting out of greed. “Bring down the price you are charging

Police have released bodycam footage showing the moment a black man was shot up to 60 times after he fled a traffic stop. Eight police officers in Akron, Ohio, were involved in the shooting of Jayland Walker, 25, last week after a pursuit by car and on foot. Police say they believed Walker was armed

A one-year-old has died in the US state of Georgia after being left inside a parked car outside a Walgreens for up to four hours, with temperatures in the vehicle around 40C. It is yet another incident of a child dying after being left in a hot car in America, which sees an average of

A three-year-old boy has died after falling from the balcony of a 29th floor apartment building in New York City, police said. Officers found the injured toddler lying on scaffolding at the third floor level after receiving a call just after 11am on Saturday. The boy was taken to a nearby hospital where he was

Britney Spears’ father has denied claims he set up hidden recording devices in her bedroom during her conservatorship. Jamie Spears had been accused of planting the devices during the months of testimony that led to the end of his control over his daughter’s estate. He allegedly hid a device in Britney’s room behind furniture, along

A week has passed since the decision which altered this country forever, and small-town America is organising. In Owensboro, Kentucky, home to 60,000 people, a group of around 200 marched down the main street, past a donut shop and bourbon bar. They were mostly women and they were furious about the constitutional right to choose

American basketball star Brittney Griner has told a US diplomat she is “keeping the faith” after appearing in a Russian court on cannabis possession charges. US Charge d’Affaires Elizabeth Rood, who attended Friday’s court hearing in Khimki, outside Moscow, told reporters she had been able to speak to the WNBA player, who was “as well

A judge has stopped the US state of Kentucky from imposing an almost complete ban on abortion. A law enacted there in 2019 proposed stopping virtually all terminations in the event that Roe v Wade – which gave women constitutional rights to end a pregnancy – was overturned. The US Supreme Court voted to do

The man suspected to have been driving the truck in which dozens of migrants died during a people smuggling attempt in Texas pretended to be a survivor to try to avoid arrest. Homero Zamorano Jr, 45, was arrested near the scene after he was found hiding in a bush, according to federal prosecutors. The head

US President Joe Biden’s efforts to enforce environmental regulation in the world’s second-most polluting country have been dealt a major blow by a Supreme Court ruling on air pollution. The decision from the currently right-leaning court rules in favour of challengers seeking to curb the power of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate pollution

This January 6th committee has been struggling to cut through. Despite some extraordinary revelations over three weeks, Americans seem to be so desensitised and divided that the hearings haven’t resonated in the way that had been intended. They had hoped to discredit Donald Trump and debunk his stolen election claims bit by bit with the

Donald Trump tried to grab the steering wheel from a US Secret Service agent when told he would not be taken to the US Capitol during the riots, a former White House aide told the January 6th hearing. Cassidy Hutchinson, who served as a top aide to Mr Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, appeared

The number of migrants who were found dead inside a truck in Texas has risen to fifty, Mexico’s Foreign Minister said. The deceased migrants were discovered in a truck that appeared to have no air conditioning or water and were “hot to the touch” as temperatures approaching 38C, San Antonio fire chief Charles Hood said.

At least 40 people have been found dead inside a lorry in Texas, the state’s governor Greg Abbott has confirmed. Citing a source close to the investigation, San Antonio’s WOAI TV said the dead were believed to be migrants and the truck was found next to railroad tracks in the city’s Southwest Side neighbourhood. Mr

Rudy Giuliani has claimed he was the victim of what could have been a deadly assault after he was allegedly slapped on the back by a shop worker. Donald Trump’s former lawyer said he felt like he had been “shot” during the incident at a ShopRite store in New York‘s Staten Island on Sunday. Police

Beyond the protests at the last remaining abortion clinic for hundreds of miles, the patients have been arriving one after the other.  Deeply personal decisions are being made and procedures undertaken quickly before this choice becomes illegal in the state of Mississippi. As the Jackson Women’s Health Organization closed for the day, we sat down

On the corner of a street in Jackson, Mississippi, America’s reckoning with abortion is up close and raw. The entrance to the car park at the Jackson Women’s Health Organisation is always an intense place. But today it’s on another level. As cars pull in with patients arriving for appointments, anti-abortion activists offer direct and

Joe Biden is continuing to look for “solutions” after the US Supreme Court overturned the right to access an abortion in a history-making decision that has divided opinion across the country. The president has said his administration will look to police how states enforce bans on the procedure. Some White House officials have already signalled

Protests are continuing in cities and towns across America after the Supreme Court stripped away constitutional protection for those seeking abortions. The court overturned the landmark ruling of Roe v Wade, a move that is likely to lead to bans on abortions in roughly half of states. Pregnant women considering abortions were already dealing with

Campaigners on both sides knew the judges’ likely decision, but when it came there was still a flood of emotion outside the Supreme Court. Macy Petty, a 20 -year-old pro-life student from Rock Hill, South Carolina, had mascara running down her cheeks. She was jumping and singing with elation and relief, waving a sign which

The US Supreme Court has voted to overturn the constitutional right to choose abortion which has existed for almost 50 years, paving the way for half the country to severely restrict or completely ban the practice. The power to decide on abortion rights for tens of millions of women will now be handed to the

The US Senate has passed a rare bipartisan package of gun safety legislation, sending it to the House of Representatives for further approval. The bill, seen as the first significant gun control legislation to pass in three decades, was passed by 65 votes to 33. Fifteen Republican senators joined all 50 Democrats in voting for

A judge has given final approval to a $1bn settlement for victims of the Miami apartment block collapse which killed 98 people. The bulk of the total will go to those who lost family members when the 12-storey building went down in June 2021, exactly a year ago tomorrow. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Michael Hanzman said:

A woman was rescued from a “five-hour hostage situation” after including a note saying “please call the police” with a takeaway order. Staff at a restaurant in New York state say they raised the alarm when they received a worrying request through delivery app Grubhub, NBC reports. In the additional instructions portion of her order,

A plane carrying 126 people caught fire after it was forced to crash land at Miami International Airport when its front landing gear failed. The Red Air flight was arriving from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on Tuesday when it skidded along the runway, ripped through a communications tower and came to a stop on the