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A statue of US President Thomas Jefferson has been removed from New York City Hall over his links to the slave trade. The 1833 sculpture has been in the New York City Council chamber for more than a century but has now been taken down following a vote last month. The New York City Public

Three members of the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies group are among five people dead after a US Christmas parade turned to tragedy. The group had been performing in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Sunday afternoon when Darrell E Brooks allegedly drove his Ford Escape into the parade. Virginia Sorenson, 79, LeAnna Owen, 71, and Tamara Durand, 52, were

A man police are questioning after five people were killed and more than 40 were injured when a vehicle drove through a Christmas parade in Wisconsin has been named in US media. NBC reported that Darrell Brooks, 39, from Wisconsin, is a person of interest being held in custody. He has not been charged with

More than 20 people have been injured after a vehicle drove through a holiday parade in the US state of Wisconsin, according to police. The incident happened in Waukesha, which is about 20 miles west of central Milwaukee, just before 5pm on Sunday. In footage on social media, the red vehicle appeared to speed towards

A convicted felon who tried to board a flight from Atlanta with a gun fled the airport after it was accidentally fired in the security screening area. Three people suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the ensuing panic. The gun discharge happened when a screening checkpoint employee was conducting a bag search after it was flagged by

Protesters hurled objects at police and broke windows amid anger following the acquittal of a teen who killed two people and injured another at a demonstration, in a verdict that has divided the US. Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty of all charges over the August 2020 shootings in Kenosha, Wisconsin. President Joe Biden, who

For the past two weeks the steps in front of the grand courthouse in the small Wisconsin city of Kenosha have been a focal point for supporters of Kyle Rittenhouse as well as supporters of the two men he killed and the third who he injured. And as the verdicts came in there were cheers

Julius Jones’ death sentence has been commuted by Oklahoma’s governor just hours before his execution. Jones, who was convicted of killing Paul Howell, a businessman in the affluent Oklahoma City suburb of Edmond, in 1999, was scheduled to receive a lethal injection at 4pm on Thursday at the State Penitentiary in McAlester. The 41-year-old has

Tiger King star Carole Baskin has reacted to claims that her former husband is alive and well, having apparently been found in Costa Rica. Don Lewis went missing in 1997, after marrying Baskin six years earlier, and was later legally declared dead in 2002. In the first season of Netflix’s smash-hit Tiger King, producers explored

US rapper Young Dolph has been shot dead at a cookie shop in his hometown of Memphis, police have said. The 36-year-old star, real-name Adolph Roberton Thornton Jr, was gunned down outside Makeda’s Cookies near Memphis International Airport on Wednesday in the US state of Tennessee. Memphis Police said they had no information on the

One person is dead, several people are missing and thousands have been evacuated following severe flooding in the northwest of the US and parts of Canada. A storm has brought days of rain to western Washington and British Colombia causing flood damage described by officials as “severe”. The storms, which started on Sunday, wrecked roads,

A teenager has been found not guilty of the murders of two men and the attempted murder of a third at a demonstration in Wisconsin. Kyle Rittenhouse, 18, was arrested and charged last year after the widely publicised incident in Kenosha during protests sparked by the shooting of a black man, Jacob Blake, by a

A teenager has been found not guilty of the murders of two men and the attempted murder of a third at a demonstration in Wisconsin. Kyle Rittenhouse, 18, had pleaded self-defence over the shootings in the city of Kenosha in August 2020. The deadly incident happened during protests sparked by the shooting of a black

Workers at Amazon’s warehouses in California were left “terrified” and “powerless” as the company concealed COVID-19 outbreaks from them, according to the state’s attorney general. The company has been ordered to pay a $500,000 (£370,000) fine to the State of California for failing to adequately notify its staff and health agencies of case numbers. Officials

A dad shielded his daughter in his arms – saving her life during a plane crash on Lake Michigan at the weekend, a family friend has said. Mike Perdue reportedly died saving his daughter’s life in a light-commuter plane crash near Beaver Island on Saturday. The 11-year-old was the sole survivor of the crash that

US President Joe Biden has held a virtual meeting with China’s Xi Jinping and began on a positive note – saying their goal is to ensure competition “does not veer into conflict”. The two leaders met on a video call amid rising tensions between the US and China, which have long had a strained relationship.