A Florida jury has ordered an amusement ride manufacturer pay $310m (£243m) to the family of a teenage boy who fell to his death on their drop ride at an…
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US: Federal judge rejects Boeing plea deal in fatal MAX 737 crashes
A United States federal judge has rejected a deal that would have let Boeing plead guilty to a felony conspiracy charge and pay a fine for misleading US regulators about…
USA: Biden considering pre-emptive pardons for Trump critics – sources
Outgoing US President Joe Biden is considering pre-emptive pardons for prominent critics of his successor Donald Trump, multiple people familiar with the discussions have told CBS. That is in a…
USA: Memphis rejects federal calls for police oversight after Tyre Nichols probe
Officials in Memphis, Tennessee, have pushed back against calls for greater oversight of the city’s police force after a report by the United States Department of Justice found widespread and…
Malta: Russia ’s Lavrov clashes with Blinken at OSCE meeting
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has clashed indirectly with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at an annual security meeting in Malta, accusing the West of risking escalation in the war…
USA: TikTok loses appeal against US ban law
TikTok’s bid to overturn a law which would see it banned or sold in the US from early 2025 has been rejected. The social media company had hoped a federal…
USA: Memphis police use ‘excessive force’, US justice department says
The Memphis Police Department uses excessive force and follows policies that discriminate against black people, the US justice department has said. This includes unnecessarily escalating encounters with some of the…
USA: Police on manhunt for the killer who shot the CEO of UnitedHealthcare
New York City police have launched a manhunt for a masked suspect who gunned down the head of a US medical insurance giant, in what investigators described as a “brazen,…
Iran: US imposes new sanctions on Tehran’s ‘shadow fleet’ of oil tankers
United States has piled on additional sanctions against Iran targeting 35 entities and vessels that it says are part of a “shadow fleet of vessels” transporting cargoes of Iranian petroleum…
USA: Eminem’s mother dies aged 69
Debbie Nelson, Eminem’s mother, whose difficult relationship with her son was reflected in much of his earlier music, has died at the age of 69. The rapper’s representative, Dennis Dennehy,…