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Rival protesters trade insults and then blows as a quiet LA suburb becomes a culture war battleground.

The US president pledges to sign the package into law on Saturday after it cruised through Congress.

The ban followed a parental complaint that the book has content unsuitable for children.

The move, ahead of the 2024 elections, is a reversal of its policy put in place after the 2020 vote.

The BBC put these pro spellers to the test during the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee.

The announcement comes just days before Mike Pence is expected to announce his 2024 presidential bid.

The gamer, known for playing Dead by Daylight, dies after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease.

The Grammy winner’s hits included You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling and On Broadway.

Employers defy predictions of a slowdown by hiring 339,000 workers, far above expectations.

America’s love affair with donuts traces back to the battlefields of France in World War One.

Alec Baldwin reaches final settlement with the family of a woman he accidentally shot on a film set.

A virtual experiment was described by a senior official at a conference, but he now says he “mis-spoke”.

Victoria Valentino claims Cosby raped her after giving her and a friend pills in 1969.

A nurse who saw the girl four times on the day she died refused multiple requests from her parents.

Former West Ham players walked off the pitch during a seven-a-side tournament in the United States after one of their team was allegedly racially abused.

Officials say the 80-year-old president stumbled on a sandbag while handing out diplomas at a graduation ceremony in Colorado.

Dev Shah defeats Charlotte Walsh after she fails to correctly spell “daviely” in an earlier round.

President Joe Biden will now sign the measure into law, staving off worldwide economic chaos.

Congress has approved a deal on the debt limit. But what is the debt ceiling and why does it exist?

They are largely unpredictable and unforeseeable but are twisters becoming a more serious threat?

The US National Eating Disorder Association is investigating reports the chatbot shared harmful advice.

Avoiding public places, moving home… how the threat of random gunfire is changing the way people live.

The Canadian fires have had a wide impact, with air quality warnings issued in the US northeast.

This is the influencer’s first TV interview with a major broadcaster while under house arrest.

Psychologists say emotions and time may be behind the perfectly normal phenomenon.

Jasmine Hartin pleaded guilty in April to manslaughter of a police chief in Belize with his own gun.

Prosecutors investigating the former president’s handling of classified files obtain an audio tape.

Some sightings turn out to be wayward Bart Simpson balloons. Others remain a mystery.

Marie Bolden, a black teenager, won the first US spelling bee in 1908. Her win was eclipsed by racism.

A Chinese fighter jet performed an “aggressive manoeuvre” in front of a US Air Force plane, says the US.

A US scheme to sell decommissioned lighthouses is helping people restore the once-mighty sentinels.

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The Canadian city of Halifax declares a state of local emergency after a wildfire causes evacuations.

Can new chief executive Linda Yaccarino fix Twitter?

The Croydon-born musician says he “can’t accept” he’s keeping company with Marvin Gaye and Diana Ross.

Parrots from the Amazon go on quite the adventure when they showed up at Miami International Airport.

Volcano ash has been falling like snow in Mexico and leaves residents worried about an eruption.

The US territory was hit by Typhoon Mawar which carried winds gusts over 100mph (160km/h).

Awesome flashes of lightning lit up the sky in New Mexico and people stopped to enjoy the show.

The British superstar gives these Florida high school band students the surprise of a lifetime.

Ohio State Highway Patrol used a helicopter to track down two suspects who fled from police cars.

A Canadian captured a timelapse of a shelf cloud formation slowly moving over Newfoundland.

State police were forced to seek out a cattleman’s help to catch the bovine, which is now safe and has not been charged.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Tuesday that he hopes to replace Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee with Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland and aims to set up a floor vote on the issue this afternoon, which Republicans are expected to block.

The Supreme Court seemed to side with a former mail carrier, an evangelical Christian, who says the US Postal Service failed to accommodate his request to not work on Sundays.

A group of doctors opposed to abortion asked the Supreme Court Tuesday to restrict access to a key medication abortion drug while other legal challenges play out, as Wednesday night’s deadline for the court to act approaches.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy made a plea to House Republicans during a closed-door meeting Tuesday morning to back his debt ceiling plan, telling them that although it doesn’t have to include everything they want, it will help get him to the negotiating table with President Joe Biden.

Three officials at the Fulton County, Georgia, jail have stepped down amid an investigation into the death of an inmate whose family said was housed in a filthy, bug-infested cell that “was not fit for a diseased animal.”

China’s economy is off to a solid start in 2023 following its emergence from three years of strict pandemic restrictions.

A Florida man who served three decades behind bars for a murder he says he didn’t commit returned to prison Monday after spending the past two years building a life outside prison walls.

The family of a victim and several survivors of a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis filed a lawsuit against companies involved in the manufacturing, marketing and sale of the high capacity magazine used by the gunman who killed 8 people and injured several others in 2021.

McDonald’s, which has been focusing on upgrading its core items to boost sales, is rolling out a series of changes designed to improve its signature burgers.

Shares of Google-parent Alphabet fell more than 3% in early trading Monday after a report sparked concerns that its core search engine could lose market share to AI-powered rivals, including Microsoft’s Bing.

A Tennessee Air National Guardsman is facing charges after applying to be a hitman on a spoof “rent-a-hitman” website, according to the Department of Justice.

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Canada’s “Sixties Scoop” saw thousands of indigenous children forcibly removed from their families.

The campaign is based on efforts around a similar case involving a British journalist fifty years ago.

After being labelled “patient zero”, a small-town physician in Canada was shunned.