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Arizona is to ban nearly all abortions after its supreme court ruled a law from the Civil War-era could be enforced. It means an 1864 law criminalising abortions except when a mother’s life is at risk – with no exceptions for pregnancies due to rape or incest – will become enforceable. Doctors who perform the

Donald Trump has said he believes abortion laws should be left to individual states to decide on. The former president, who is seeking a return to the White House in this November’s US election, declared his stance as he declined to endorse a national abortion ban. In the video, posted on his Truth Social site

Police are searching for a man who allegedly set Senator Bernie Sanders’ office on fire in Vermont. The unknown man entered the building and sprayed an accelerant on Sanders’ office door on Friday morning. He then set it on fire and fled, according to police. A “significant fire engulfed the door and part of the

The three-point announcement to ease aid flows into Gaza represents the most significant move by Israel since this conflict began six months ago. It follows a call between President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It was a tense, challenging conversation I am told – but not one in which any direct ultimatums were

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice has said he is taking “full responsibility” for his part in a car crash that left four people with minor injuries. On Saturday, two cars caused a chain-reaction crash that involved six vehicles along a Dallas highway. The 23-year-old American football player was leasing a Lamborghini SUV that

School closures, pet care and fake glasses are just three of the things that have prompted warnings ahead of Monday’s total solar eclipse. Residents in multiple US states, as well as parts of Mexico and Canada, will be able to witness the natural phenomenon on Monday 8 April. The first place to experience ‘totality’ –

The moon will get its own time zone after the White House directed NASA to develop a unified lunar time standard by the end of 2026. The Coordinated Lunar Time, or LTC, would provide a time-keeping benchmark for lunar spacecraft and satellites that will require extreme precision for their missions. Having a standard lunar time

Donald Trump has posted a $175m (£140m) bond in New York – preventing the state from seizing his assets. The former US president had been given 10 days to make the payment after his lawyers successfully asked for the bond to be reduced from $454m (£362m). However, Mr Trump will be liable to pay the

Kansas City Chiefs player Rashee Rice is being pursued by police in Dallas in connection with a major multi-vehicle accident, according to local reports. A vehicle believed to be registered or leased to the American football star was involved in a crash on a motorway at about 6.20pm on Sunday, The Dallas Morning News reported.

Donald Trump has requested a Georgia court review a ruling allowing an attorney who had a romantic relationship with a prosecutor to remain on his election interference case. The former president is accused of illegally trying to interfere in the 2020 election in Georgia. Along with his fellow defendants, he had tried to get the

US President Joe Biden’s presidential election campaign is set to raise $25m (£19.7m) due to a star-studded event that will be attended by more than three decades of Democratic leadership. Mr Biden’s campaign team claim the figure is a record. Former Democratic presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton will be standing alongside Mr Biden at

The US military has finished draining millions of litres of fuel from a hidden government storage installation in Hawaii that poisoned thousands of people when it leaked jet fuel into Pearl Harbor’s drinking water in 2021. The Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility has supplied fuel to military ships and planes navigating the Pacific Ocean

President Biden has promised that he will visit Baltimore “as soon as possible” after a major bridge collapsed – as the city’s governor has said the search for “survivors” continues as six people remain missing. The 1.6-mile long Francis Scott Key Bridge crashed into the Patapsco River after it was hit by a 289m-long cargo

A New York appeals court has agreed to hold off collection of former president Donald Trump’s $454m (£359m) civil fraud judgment – if he puts up $175m (£138m) within 10 days. The former US president had been facing a deadline on Monday to post the bond for the initial ruling, which he was given for

A student has been found dead in a river two weeks after he was reported missing. University of Missouri student Riley Strain, 22, was last seen in a bar in Nashville, Tennessee, which he was visiting with his fraternity house, just before 10pm on 8 March. Police officials in the state capital, who previously said

Donald Trump’s social media company, Truth Social, is set to go public – potentially netting the former US president $3bn. It means Trump Media & Technology Group, whose flagship product is the social networking platform, will soon begin trading on the Nasdaq stock market. It comes after Acquisition Corp, a publicly traded shell company, approved

Hermès has been sued over claims it unlawfully allows only customers with “sufficient purchase history” with the company to buy its famous Birkin bags. Two residents in California allege Hermès is violating antitrust laws by “tying” the sale of one item to the purchase of another, according to the proposed federal class-action lawsuit filed on

The first patient to receive a brain chip from Elon Musk’s company Neuralink has been shown playing online chess. Neuralink released a nine-minute video in which the patient, who is paralyzed below his shoulders, appears to move a cursor across a laptop screen with nothing but his thoughts. The video shows him playing chess and

A court case against Donald Trump in Georgia cannot go ahead unless the district attorney steps aside or removes a special prosecutor she had a relationship with, the judge has ruled. Mr Trump is accused of attempting to overturn the outcome of the 2020 US presidential election in Georgia. District Attorney Fani Willis, who is

The judge in Donald Trump’s Georgia election subversion trial has dismissed three criminal counts against the former president. Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee also dismissed charges against three other co-defendants, while letting the overall case proceed, a court filing showed. Judge McAffee decided that allegations made by state prosecutors that Mr Trump and his co-defendants