US attorney general William Barr has rejected accusations that he has “aided and abetted” Donald Trump. At the start of a long-anticipated hearing with the House Judiciary Committee looking into whether the US Justice Department has become politicised, chairman Jerrold Nadler told Mr Barr there had been a “persistent war against the department’s professional core”
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A man has been accused of fraudulently obtaining nearly $4m (£3.1m) in coronavirus relief loans and using some of the money to buy a Lamborghini sports car. David T Hines was arrested and charged last week with bank fraud, making false statements to a financial institution and engaging in transactions in unlawful proceeds, the US
The White House is planning to send more federal troops to Portland in a bid to quell ongoing protests, reports claim. Donald Trump’s administration wants to deploy an additional 50 US Customs and Border Protection personnel to the Oregon city adding to the 100 sent last week, according to the Washington Post. Federal troops arrived
US President Donald Trump’s national security adviser has tested positive for COVID-19. The White House confirmed that Robert O’Brien has “mild symptoms” of the virus – making him the highest-ranking US official to test positive so far. Mr O’Brien has been self-isolating and “working from a secure location off site”, the White House said. Trump
US congressman John Lewis has made his final journey across a historic bridge central to the civil rights movement. The casket of the late Mr Lewis, who died on 17 July, was taken across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on Sunday in a horse-drawn carriage draped with an American flag. Crowds gathered to
Forecasters are predicting “catastrophic flooding” in southern Texas after Hurricane Hanna made landfall twice, bringing heavy rain and winds up to 90mph. It came ashore on Saturday as a category one storm (the lowest of the five levels) and has now been downgraded to a tropical storm – but there could still be 15-30cm (6-12in)
A TV news reporter in the US has revealed how she found out she had cancer after a viewer sent her an email raising concern about a lump on her neck. Victoria Price, a correspondent with NBC affiliate WFLA-TV in Tampa, Florida, said she was alerted last month by a sharp-eyed member of the public,
A devastating surge of COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles is hitting one small community hardest of all, it has been revealed. People with heritage in the Pacific Islands have been found to have the highest infection rate of any racial or ethnic group in LA County. Image: The Ali family has been labelled ‘the COVID
Donald Trump has called off next month’s Republican convention in Florida because of the spike in coronavirus cases there – but why is the state now being hit so severely? How bad is it in the Sunshine State? There have been nearly 390,000 cases so far – the second-highest in the US after California –
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman to be elected to the US House of Representatives, has delivered a powerful speech in response to a congressman who allegedly verbally abused her. The Democratic congresswoman claims that Republican Ted Yoho called her a “f****** b****” and said she was “out of [her] freaking mind” on the steps of
Donald Trump has called off the Republican convention in Florida after a flare-up of coronavirus cases, saying the timing is “not right”. The event, which was due to be held in Jacksonville next month, is when Mr Trump will accept his party’s nomination as presidential candidate. Convention events will still be going ahead in North
The suspects in the brutal murder of three friends on a fishing trip went to McDonald’s and ordered 10 double cheeseburgers immediately after the killings, says the local sheriff. He described last Friday’s incident in a rural area of Florida as a “massacre” and one of the worst murder scenes he had witnessed in decades
The spectre of a new stay-at-home order haunts the streets of West Hollywood. The small city of 30,000 people, squeezed between Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, is experiencing the same dramatic surge in coronavirus cases as the rest of its neighbours. And, four months after officials in LA were among the first in the country
The UK and US have agreed to end the “anomaly” that allowed the woman suspected of causing Harry Dunn’s death to claim diplomatic immunity. A court heard last month that the “secret agreement” permitted Anne Sacoolas to return to her home country after a road crash which killed the 19-year-old in August last year outside
Donald Trump has said the coronavirus pandemic “will probably get worse before it gets better” as he told Americans to wear masks when they cannot socially distance. The US president, speaking at a COVID-19 briefing at the White House on Tuesday evening, referred to what he calls the “China virus” as a “vicious and dangerous
California is shutting down again as it reports a record increase in the number of coronavirus cases. The US state reported more than 11,800 new virus cases on Monday, according to a tally by news agency Reuters, bringing the total to almost 400,000. If California was a country, its total number would put it fifth