A woman who angrily doused an “old friend” in petrol and set him alight for making a misogynistic comment was suffering from depression and substance abuse, a court has heard. Corbie Jean Walpole, 24, earlier pleaded guilty to one charge…
A pregnant woman has been kept on life support for over three months in order to deliver her child due to the abortion laws in her home state of Georgia. Georgia’s Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act, also known…
On April 2, 2025, Austin Metcalf, an American 17-year-old student at Memorial High School, was fatally stabbed while attending a school track meet in Frisco, Texas. He died of his injuries at the scene. A 17-year-old Centennial High School student was arrested for the stabbing and charged…
The US transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, plans to reduce the number of flights in and out of the Newark Liberty international airport for the “next several weeks”, as the facility – one of the country’s busiest airports – struggles with radar outages,…
An elderly couple who were gunned down at a veteran’s cemetery in Delaware last week had been visiting their son’s grave at the time, their heartbroken children have revealed. Paul, 86, and Lidia Marino, 85, from Elkton, Maryland, have been identified as…
Anysphere, creator of the fast-growing programming tool Cursor, has closed a new round of funding that more than triples its valuation to about $9bn, as money continues to pour into Silicon Valley’s hottest artificial intelligence start-ups. OpenAI backer Thrive Capital…
US President Donald Trump says he will hit movies made in foreign countries with 100% tariffs,as he ramps up trade disputes with nations around the world. Trump said he was authorising the US Department of Commerce and Trade Representative to…
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas will implement a $1 billion school voucher program, one of the largest in the country, that uses public dollars to fund private school tuition under a bill Gov. Greg Abbott signed Saturday, capping off a yearslong effort by Republicans.…
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s motto is “ Make America Healthy Again,” but government cuts could make it harder to know if that’s happening. More than a dozen data-gathering programs that track deaths and disease…
After using a generative artificial intelligence program to submit a court filing rife with errors — including citing to several nonexistent cases — attorneys representing MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell in a high-profile defamation case are seeking to push the trial date over “significant burdens”…