In a medical first, US surgeons transplanted a pig heart into a human patient, and say he is doing well three days after the extremely experimental operation. While it’s too soon to tell if the surgery will work, it’s the first-of-its-kind in a decades-long quest to one day use animal organs to save human life. […]
Robert Durst, the convicted murderer, suspected serial killer and wealthy real estate heir, has died in prison. The 78-year-old was serving a life sentence. Durst died in a state prison hospital facility in Stockton, his lawyer Chip Lewis said. He said it was from natural causes due to a number of health issues. Durst was […]
After going missing in the snow for a week, this is the adorable moment a lost dog was reunited with her owner. Seven-year-old Salty snuck out of her home in Montana just before Christmas, in an apparent attempt to chase deer on December 22. Despite the best efforts of her owner, Roger Jacobs, she could […]
At least 31 people are believed to have been seriously injured after a fire broke out in an apartment block in New York. Witnesses claimed to have seen residents jumping from the 19-storey building after the blaze broke out on Sunday morning. The blaze is believed to have started in a duplex apartment on the […]
A mother in Texas has been accused of putting her 13-year-old son in the boot of her car after he tested positive for coronavirus. Sarah Beam has been charged with endangering a child after officials made the discovery on 3 January. The 41-year-old had driven her teenager to a COVID-19 testing site in Houston for […]
Three white men who chased and shot a black man as he ran through their neighbourhood have been sentenced to life in prison for his murder. Ahmaud Arbery, 25, was pursued and cornered by Travis McMichael, 35, his father Gregory McMichael, 66, and their neighbour William ‘Roddie’ Bryan, 52, on 23 February 2020 in Satilla […]
The only criminal charge relating to sexual harassment allegations against former New York state governor Andrew Cuomo has been dismissed by a judge. Mr Cuomo, who resigned at the end of last year, had always denied the allegation he had put his hand inside a woman’s shirt and groped her breast while at his official […]
The three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man jogging through their Georgia neighborhood in 2020, were sentenced to life in prison on Friday. Travis McMichael, the man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery, as well as his father Greg McMichael, were both sentenced to life without possibility for parole. For all […]
Exactly a year ago, a violent mob of then-President Donald Trump’s supporters forced their way past police barricades lined with officers and into the US Capitol building, demanding to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Make America Great Again fans fueled by Trump’s ‘Stop the Steal’ rally on January 6, 2020, stormed the Capitol, and […]
Former President Donald Trump hit back at President Joe Biden’s speech on the first anniversary of the deadly January 6 Capitol riot by branding it ‘political theater’. That prompted White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki to say she hoped Trump ‘learned something’ from Biden’s remarks. Trump responded to Biden’s Thursday morning speech with a series […]