Eighteen sailors have been injured after an explosion caused a fire on a military ship in San Diego, the fire department said. The sailors were taken from the USS Bonhomme Richard to hospital with “non-life threatening injuries” on Sunday morning, Mike Raney, a spokesman for Naval Surface Force, US Pacific Fleet, said. San Diego Fire
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Donald Trump has been seen wearing a mask in public, despite previously appearing reluctant to endorse their use. The US president was visiting a military hospital in Washington where he met injured service personnel and health workers caring for COVID-19 patients. The pandemic reached the US in March, and has infected more than 3.2 million
It had become a case of when, not if, Donald Trump would save his old pal Roger Stone from prison. When Stone failed in a court bid to delay the start of his sentence next week because of a coronavirus outbreak at the jail, the president stepped in. Stone was there for Trump at the
Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of his former adviser Roger Stone – just days before he was due to report to prison to serve 40 months for crimes related to an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US election. The White House confirmed the commuting of the sentence in a statement, saying Stone
Tropical Storm Fay is set to drench New York City, as it makes landfall on the US east coast. The storm, which is expected to dump up to 10cm of rain across the region, has already forced President Donald Trump to postpone a campaign rally in New Hampshire, as it begins to batter the US.
Security footage has been released showing the last known movements of Glee star Naya Rivera, who is feared to have drowned after taking her son out on a lake in southern California. The surveillance video was made public by police after an extensive search of the area, involving dive teams and helicopters, failed to find
Donald Trump’s tax returns can be seen by a New York prosecutor, the US Supreme Court has ruled. The request to view the documents is part of a criminal investigation into alleged hush-money payments to women who claim they had affairs with the US president. However in a separate ruling, Supreme Court justices said Mr
The police officer accused of murdering George Floyd told him “it takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk” as the unarmed black man said he couldn’t breathe more than 20 times, according to court documents. Four officers had confronted Mr Floyd outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he was suspected of
Amber Heard branded Johnny Depp a “needy man-child” and an “insecure violent little boy” as she accused him of repeatedly hitting her, in an email revealed for the first time in court. London’s High Court was also shown picture evidence of Depp’s wild lifestyle on what was the second day of his libel action against
Donald Trump paid a friend to sit his SAT exams, his niece has claimed in a scathing tell-all memoir. Mary L Trump, a psychologist, wrote that the US president paid “Joe Shapiro, a smart kid with a reputation for being a good test taker” to take the exams, which are used for university admissions, to
Johnny Depp is not a “wife beater” and allegations of violence made by his ex-wife Amber Heard are “complete lies”, the High Court has been told by his lawyers on the first day of a libel trial. The Hollywood star is suing The Sun’s publisher, News Group Newspapers (NGN), and its executive editor, Dan Wootton,
Prince Andrew has again been urged to speak to investigators by a lawyer representing more than a dozen women who claim they were abused by Jeffrey Epstein. Gloria Allred says the Duke of York should not be waiting for a “gold-plated invitation delivered by a footman on a silver platter” before agreeing to an interview
A white woman who called the police on a black man while he was bird watching in New York has been charged by police. Amy Cooper is accused of falsely reporting an incident in the third degree, the district attorney of New York has said. It comes after Ms Cooper told police Christian Cooper was
An eight-year-old girl has been shot dead in Atlanta after at least two people opened fire on the car she was in. Secoriea Turner was shot on Saturday night near the Wendy’s restaurant where black man Rayshard Brooks was killed by a white police officer on 12 June. The restaurant was later burned down and
Two people have died and eight are injured following a shooting at a nightclub in the US, authorities have said. Sheriffs say gunfire broke out inside the Lavish Lounge, in Greenville County, South Carolina, just before 2am local time (7am in the UK) on Sunday. A large crowd of people was then seen running from
Donald Trump has claimed 99% of coronavirus cases are “totally harmless” after a surge of infections in the US. In a speech at the White House on America’s Independence Day, the US president insisted his strategy to tackle COVID-19 was “moving along well” despite some states reporting record increases in cases. He had earlier branded