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White House made lengthy post about gorilla shot dead at Cincinnati zoo after a toddler entered his enclosure in 2016 Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email The White House has posted on social media a tribute to mark Thursday’s 10th anniversary of the death of a figure it called “a true patriot”. … Read more

Justice Clarence Thomas declined to immediately hand Alabama Republicans a win Wednesday, but ordered their voting rights challengers to quickly defend a court-drawn congressional map that helped Democrats flip a deep-red state House seat. Alabama’s Republican Attorney General requested emergency relief, asking the Supreme Court to immediately revive the state’s 2023 legislature-drawn congressional map after … Read more

The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into whether E. Jean Carroll committed perjury in testimony during her lawsuits tied to sexual abuse allegations against President Donald Trump, according to a source familiar with the matter

Monitors estimate 17,500 people have been sent to countries they may never have visited – and where they could face further danger José Yugar-Cruz spent 17 months in a county jail in Muscatine, Iowa, despite never having committed a crime. Originally from Bolivia, he entered the United States legally at the Arizona border in July … Read more

13 farmers across Iowa said they’re struggling economically, but 11 voted for Trump in the past and still largely back him, hoping “he follows through” on his promises.

States with abortion bans are turning away from medications to a wait-and-see approach, with care falling below standards Abortion restrictions in the US have made it more difficult to access care for miscarriages, a new study stays. The new research found that since the June 2022 Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturning Roe … Read more

Legal action claims newspaper tarnished reputation by describing card to Jeffrey Epstein as bearing his signature Donald Trump has refiled a defamation lawsuit seeking at least $10bn in damages against the Wall Street Journal over its reporting on his alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein, after a judge threw out an earlier version over legal deficiencies. … Read more

For centuries, the US has engaged in imperialist intervention in Latin America. The Castro indictment looks like its latest move On 20 May, a federal court in the state of Florida indicted the former Cuban president Raúl Castro over his alleged involvement in downing two civilian planes piloted by US nationals in 1996. Castro was … Read more

The lawsuit is one of several that the president has brought in his personal capacity against news organizations Guatemala has agreed to conduct joint strikes with the United States against drug traffickers in its territory, the New York Times reported. The move marks an escalation of US president Donald Trump’s crackdown on drug cartels operating … Read more

The Pentagon recently informed European allies it plans to reduce some U.S. military capabilities available to NATO during a crisis as part of a broader push to shift more of the alliance’s conventional defense burden onto Europe. The Trump administration plans to reduce certain available capabilities by roughly one-third to one half, officials confirmed to … Read more