News from: BBC & CNN
- Mother fends off raccoon from daughteron 2025-01-18 at 07:17
- Water study could delay commercial constructionon 2025-01-18 at 07:17
- 10-year-old shoot mom over VR headseton 2025-01-18 at 07:17
- Fire crews respond to fire at boarded up buildingon 2025-01-18 at 07:17
- Milwaukee Dancing Grannies planning returnon 2025-01-18 at 07:17
- HS football players gain perspective helping vetson 2025-01-18 at 07:17
- She made a promise to her husband to keep their tree farm goingon 2025-01-18 at 07:17
- Almost 200 animals rescued from puppy millon 2025-01-18 at 07:17
- Girl who called 911 for her father honoredon 2025-01-18 at 07:17
- 5th grader raises $2,000 for grieving teacheron 2025-01-18 at 07:17
- Hospitals becoming a ‘dumping ground’ for kidson 2025-01-18 at 07:17
- Christmas parade road closures and detourson 2025-01-18 at 07:17
- Cars totaling nearly $200k stolen from dealershipon 2025-01-18 at 07:17
- Car chase ends with police-involved shootingon 2025-01-18 at 07:17
- $200,000 worth of supplies donated to PB schoolson 2025-01-18 at 07:17
- Family throws surprise birthday party at Eagles tailgate for Vietnam veton 2025-01-18 at 07:17
- Condo owners remember building scareon 2025-01-18 at 07:17
- TikTok says it will ‘go dark’ on Sunday without US government actionon 2025-01-18 at 04:03
The Supreme Court earlier upheld a law that would ban the video app in the US unless its Chinese parent-company sells it.
- CNN reaches $5m defamation settlement with US Navy veteranon 2025-01-18 at 01:11
A jury says the broadcaster defamed a man who helped Afghans escape after the Taliban takeover in 2021.
- TikTok creators mourn app where ‘overnight’ success is possibleon 2025-01-18 at 00:06
Some creators told the BBC they will start to diversify where they post their content and lean in to platforms like Instagram and YouTube.
- Mesmerising ice formations cover US lakeon 2025-01-17 at 21:31
Areas around the country are seeing freezing conditions ahead of even colder temperatures in the coming days.
- Mesmerising ice formations cover US lakeon 2025-01-17 at 21:31
Areas around the country are seeing freezing conditions ahead of even colder temperatures in the coming days.
- A look back at Ronald Reagan’s 1985 indoor inaugurationon 2025-01-17 at 21:26
Donald Trump will be sworn-in inside the Capitol rotunda on Monday, the first time the ceremony is held indoors in decades.
- US grounds SpaceX’s Starship after test flight explosionon 2025-01-17 at 21:09
The rocket’s upper stage disintegrated over the Caribbean, forcing airline flights to alter course.
- Decoding Donald Trump’s new official portraiton 2025-01-17 at 20:30
Photographers describe the photo as “serious”, “ominous” and a “message picture”.
- Here’s what to know about Donald Trump’s inaugurationon 2025-01-17 at 19:52
Donald Trump will be sworn in on Monday during a series of events that will kick off his presidency.
- Donald Trump’s inauguration moved indoors due to ‘dangerous’ coldon 2025-01-17 at 19:09
The last president to be sworn-in indoors was Ronald Reagan in 1985, when cold weather also plagued the US Capitol.
- Inmates fighting LA fires: ‘Happy to pay my debt this way’on 2025-01-17 at 18:27
More than a thousand California prisoners have helped to battle the Eaton and Palisades fires in Los Angeles.
- TikTokers’ say goodbye to their ‘Chinese spy’on 2025-01-17 at 17:19
Influencers have posted about leaving TikTok and moving to Rednote as the US is set to go ahead with a ban on Sunday.
- ‘War will last as long as Russia does’: Ukrainian talk of victory fades as Trump returnson 2025-01-17 at 17:00
Those fighting for Ukraine and those who have lost loved ones hope to end the war with Russia on their own terms.
- Is TikTok banned in the US? What to know after Supreme Court decisionon 2025-01-17 at 16:41
Could there be ways to bypass the ban – and could president-elect Donald Trump find a way to stop the law?
- Drone footage shows fire at one of world’s largest battery plantson 2025-01-17 at 11:29
The Moss Landing power plant, in California, was evacuated, as were people in the surrounding area.
- Biden commutes sentences of 2,500 non-violent drug offenderson 2025-01-17 at 11:19
The outgoing president says he has issued more individual pardons and commutations “than any other president in US history”.
- She helped launch the Women’s March. This year she’s sitting out the fight.on 2025-01-17 at 11:03
Once the face of the anti-Trump resistance, the Women’s March has largely faded from view.
- Watch: SpaceX loses Starship on test flighton 2025-01-17 at 08:55
Watch: SpaceX loses Starship spacecraft but catches booster on seventh test flight
- Power lines, hikers, arson: What might have sparked LA’s devastating fires?on 2025-01-17 at 00:53
Investigators are scouring video footage, witness testimony and debris to identify the origins of two deadly fires.
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- Three ways Democrats are breaking with tradition before inaugurationon 2025-01-16 at 18:51
Michelle Obama will not attend the swearing-in, as Democrats follow Trump in ignoring some conventions.
- From snowy cities to Mexican border – Trump deportations loomon 2025-01-15 at 23:50
‘Do it the right way’ Texas border residents tell migrants, while Chicago neighbourhoods prepare for raids.
- How ‘spirit guide’ Usha Vance supported JD Vance’s meteoric riseon 2025-01-15 at 14:31
Some credit the US vice-president-elect’s success to the influence of his wife, who he met as a student at Yale.
- ‘We sing to them’: LA stables turn Noah’s Ark for fire rescue animalson 2025-01-15 at 04:34
Pigs, donkeys and even a mini cow named Cuddles found a temporary home after the LA fires.
- Five takeaways from Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearingon 2025-01-15 at 03:43
US President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee was grilled for hours about his ability to run the defence department.
- What we know about LA fires victimson 2025-01-15 at 03:02
An amputee and his bedbound son, and a man trying to defend his home of 55 years, are among the 25 victims of the Los Angeles fires.
- GOP prepared to block vote to replace Feinstein on Senate Judiciaryon 2023-04-18 at 22:03
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.
- Supreme Court seems sympathetic to postal worker who didn’t work Sundays in dispute over religious accommodationson 2023-04-18 at 17:37
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.
- Anti-abortion doctors urge Supreme Court to keep mifepristone restrictions in placeon 2023-04-18 at 16:35
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.
- McCarthy makes plea for Republicans to back debt ceiling planon 2023-04-18 at 15:17
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.
- Fulton County, Georgia, jail leadership resigns after inmate’s death and accusations of unsanitary conditionson 2023-04-18 at 15:08
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, rising 4.5% in Q1 2023on 2023-04-18 at 07:01
China’s economy is off to a solid start in 2023 following its emergence from three years of strict pandemic restrictions.
- He was free for 2 years. Now Crosley Green is back in prison for a crime he says he didn’t commiton 2023-04-17 at 22:45
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.
- Family of victim and survivors of Indianapolis FedEx mass shooting file lawsuit against gun magazine manufacturer and distributorson 2023-04-17 at 18:54
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 is upgrading its burgerson 2023-04-17 at 16:31
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.
- Google-parent stock drops on fears it could lose search market share to AI-powered rivalson 2023-04-17 at 15:52
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.
- Tennessee Air National Guardsman applied to be a hitman online, the FBI says. It was a spoof website and now he’s facing chargeson 2023-04-17 at 09:06
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.
- Even when wives make as much as husbands, they still do more at homeon 2023-04-16 at 17:29
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