Joe Biden has said he would sign legislation banning popular video-sharing app TikTok in the United States. Legislation passed through the US House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously on Thursday calling on China's ByteDance to divest its ownership of TikTok or effectively face a US ban. Republican House Speaker Mike...
Ohio: Women who drove dead man to his bank and withdrew money charged with abusing corpse
Two women have been charged in the US with alleged abuse of a corpse after propping up his body to withdraw money from his bank account, police said. Loreen Feralo, 55, and Karen Kasbohm, 63, lived with 80-year-old Douglas Layman in a house in the town of Ashtabula on the...
Ceasefire deal in Gaza before Ramadan ‘looking tough’, Biden says – after US denies causing airdrop deaths
US President Joe Biden has said reaching a six-week ceasefire deal in Gaza before the start of Ramadan is "looking tough". His comments come after the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said it was up to Hamas to make further progress on the truce. "The ball is in their...
Singapore executes a woman for the first time in 19 years
Saridewi Djamani, 45, was sentenced to death in 2018 for trafficking nearly 31 grams (1.09 ounces) of heroin, the Central Narcotics Bureau said. It said the amount was "sufficient to feed the addiction of about 370 abusers for a week". Human rights groups, international activists and the United Nations have...
Fed raises US interest rates to 22-year high as it continues to tackle inflation
The Federal Reserve - the US central bank known as the Fed - has recommenced its programme of interest rate increases and has not ruled out further hikes. The rate has been increased by 0.25 percentage points in an effort to further bring down inflation and said the full effect...
Hunter Biden pleads not guilty over tax charges as plea deal unexpectedly unravels
President Biden's son Hunter has unexpectedly pleaded not guilty to two tax crimes after a plea deal fell apart in court. The 53-year-old appeared in Delaware after being charged with evading $100,000 in taxes from income of over $1.5m in 2017 and 2018. He had previously reached a deal with...
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell freezes mid-sentence and stares vacantly for around 20 seconds during press conference
The US Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, appeared to freeze mid-sentence and stare into space for around 20 seconds during a press conference. The 81-year-old approached the podium for his weekly press conference and began speaking about the annual defense funding bill before appearing to lose his train of thought...
Donald Trump accused of asking employee to delete footage in classified documents case as new charges announced
Donald Trump has been accused of asking an employee to delete security footage at his Florida estate in an effort to obstruct the federal investigation into the classified documents case. The updated indictment, which added new charges against the former US president, centers on surveillance footage at Mr Trump's Mar-a-Lago...
Federal judge blocks Title 42 rule that allowed the removal of migrants at the US-Mexico border, restoring access for some asylum seekers
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked Title 42, a controversial rule that has allowed US authorities to expel more than 1 million migrants who crossed the US-Mexico border. Tuesday's court order leaves the Biden administration without one of the key tools it had deployed to deal with the thousands of...
A white teacher in Texas is fired after claiming his race is ‘superior’
A high school teacher in Pflugerville, Texas, was fired, district officials said, Monday after a social media video showed the white teacher telling his students his "race is superior." . "Last Friday, November 11, Pflugerville Independent School District officials became aware of an inappropriate conversation a teacher at Bohls High...