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An American Airlines flight was forced to return back to the airport after a possible bird strike. The Boeing 737-800 had departed from Columbus to Phoenix on Sunday morning before a crew member reported the strike at around 8am (EDT), the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. The plane which was carrying 173 passengers

An ex-employee at Walt Disney World in Florida has allegedly told police that he covertly shot videos up the skirts and dresses of more than 500 female guests at the theme park over the past six years. Jorge Diaz Vega, 26, worked at the Star Wars gift shop inside Disney’s Hollywood Studios theme park near

Hollywood star Paul Rudd joined Wrexham fans in the pub ahead of their crucial National League game on Saturday. The Ant-Man actor, 52, was spotted drinking beer and singing songs with supporters at the Turf pub, next to the town’s Racecourse Ground ahead of the club’s clash with Boreham Wood. Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds, who

Women’s access to a widely used abortion pill in the US has been maintained by the Supreme Court during an ongoing legal battle over the drug. The justices agreed to stay or pause a lower court decision imposing restrictions on the availability of mifepristone during a challenge by anti-abortion groups to its federal regulatory approval.

The first images of Alec Baldwin on the set of Rust have emerged since the movie resumed filming following the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Baldwin is seen reprising his role as the main character after the involuntary manslaughter charge against him following the death of Ms Hutchins was formally dismissed. The images, shared

A Florida woman who spent her life savings on breast cancer treatment for her daughter won $2m (£1.6m) the day after she finished hospital care.  Geraldine Gimblet claimed the top prize in a $2m scratch card lottery. But when she went to buy the card, the shop assistant told her they didn’t have any left.

Joe Biden is set to announce he will run for a second term as US president next week, according to US media. Mr Biden’s advisers are planning to launch his re-election campaign as soon as next Tuesday, three sources familiar with the plans have told Sky News’ US partner network NBC News. The 80-year-old president’s

All criminal charges against actor Alec Baldwin over the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the Rust movie have been dropped. Prosecutors in Santa Fe had been pressing forward with two involuntary manslaughter charges against the Hollywood star. A statement from Baldwin’s lawyers, Luke Nikas and Alex Spiro, said: “We are

The top of a church spire is the only part of Yellowstone Film Ranch that is visible from the bumpy public road which winds through the valley. It is here that the filming of Rust will resume, almost exactly a year and a half since cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot dead on set in New

Two teenagers have been arrested and charged with murder after a shooting at a 16th birthday party in Alabama left four dead and 32 wounded. The suspects, Ty Reik McCullough, 17, and Travis McCullough,16, were charged with four counts of reckless murder, a state police spokesperson said. District Attorney Mike Segrest said the pair would

It’s a huge chunk of Rupert Murdoch’s money. $787.5 million. That’s how much he had to pay a voting machine company you may never have heard of to prevent this landmark case from going to trial. It was to be a trial about truth, about lies, about an election and about America’s most influential and

An arrest warrant has been issued for the man accused of shooting a Black teenager in the head in Kansas City. Andrew Lester, 85, is accused of shooting 16-year-old Ralph Yarl, who reportedly went to the wrong house by accident when trying to collect his younger brothers last week. Police said on Monday that Lester

Two New York residents have been arrested and charged after allegedly running an illegal Manhattan police station for the Chinese government. The pair face federal charges of operating the undeclared outpost in the Chinatown neighbourhood and conspiring to act as agents for Beijing, said the US attorney for the eastern district of New York. The

Voting machine company Dominion has settled its defamation lawsuit with Fox News.  Dominion Voting Systems sued Fox over its coverage of false claims that the company rigged the 2020 US presidential election to prevent Donald Trump‘s victory. The trial was scheduled to begin on Monday but just a few hours before it was due to

SpaceX will launch its Starship rocket system for the first time today. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued Elon Musk‘s company with a licence to put its most powerful rocket system through its paces, saying it met all safety and environmental requirements. The Starship rocket is due to blast off for its debut orbital

Multiple people have been injured and four have been killed in a shooting in Alabama, officials have said. The incident is reported to have taken place at a teenager’s birthday party late on Saturday evening in the city of Dadeville, in Tallapoosa County. It was not immediately known if a suspect was in custody. WRBL-TV

It has been one those weeks in America where you end up with whiplash from a flood of remarkable news. So much news, in fact, we couldn’t cover it all in the depth we’d like to have done. The main stories were all familiar American themes – guns, intelligence leaks, abortion, drugs. But within each,

In his garden there was, what else, but a ‘gaming chair’. The seat sits outside and unoccupied on the North Dighton property of Jack Teixeira – a nod, perhaps, to the secrets scandal that he perpetrated through a gaming platform online. It is upholstered aggressively in red and black, a growling accessory in a gaming

The US Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a court decision that would halt the approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. A judge said current rules over access to the drug – used in the most common method of abortion in the country – should be preserved until Wednesday at the earliest. The postponement is to

The FBI used billing records from an internet social media app to unmask US airman Jack Teixeira as a suspect over the leak of top-secret military documents, it has been revealed.   Court documents made public on Friday showed investigators identified the Massachusetts Air National Guardsman, 21, using information on the Discord chat platform. The