The Denver gunman who shot and killed five people had previously written a trilogy of novels, in which a character shares his name, depicting violence similar to Monday’s rampage. Lydon McLeod was a known extremist with psychiatric problems who promoted violence on social media. The 47-year-old went on a deadly rampage across Denver and Lakewood […]
The judge in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking trial wants jurors to work more days and longer hours because of a spike in the number of coronavirus cases in New York. Judge Alison Nathan said a positive COVID-19 case among jurors would endanger “our ability to complete this trial” and asked them to work every day […]
Books, coins, ammunition, and documents from the 1880s were among artefacts found in a time capsule uncovered beneath a statue of a Confederate leader in Virginia. Crews finishing up the removal of a statue of General Robert E Lee made the discovery on Monday, with the contents matching a time capsule historians had long been […]
A critically endangered Sumatran orangutan has given birth to a healthy male baby at a US zoo. Twelve-year-old Menari went into labour on Christmas Eve at Audubon Zoo in New Orleans. While she gave birth to one baby with no trouble, zoo staff said its twin brother died in the womb after it became clear […]
Amazon has “fixed” its Alexa voice assistant after it told a 10-year-old girl to touch a penny to the prongs of a plugged-in phone charger. Kristin Livdahl, the girl’s mother, said it happened when the US family asked the Echo smart speaker for physical challenges to do because the weather was bad outside. She tweeted […]
A man in the US kept more than 800 parakeets stuffed into one room while he was trying to breed them. Workers and volunteers at the Detroit Animal Welfare Group (DAWG) in Michigan spent their Christmas weekend feeding, grooming and caring for almost 1,000 mistreated birds. Their owner’s son brought 497 parakeets into the rescue […]
When Duane “Yellow Feather” Shepard was a child, his mother would point out Bruce’s Beach and tell him: “That used to be our people’s land.” Decades later that small slice of land, nestled next to the Pacific Ocean in the glittering city of Manhattan Beach in California, is finally being returned to his family’s ownership. […]
When Duane “Yellow Feather” Shepard was a child, his mother would point out Bruce’s Beach and tell him: “That used to be our people’s land.” Decades later that small slice of land, nestled next to the Pacific Ocean in the glittering city of Manhattan Beach in California, is finally being returned to his family’s ownership. […]
A surfer has been killed in an “apparent shark attack” off the central coast of California on Christmas Eve, authorities have said. The surfer, whose identity has not yet been released, was found in the water near Morro Rock, about 200 miles (320km) north of Los Angeles. in Los Angeles, California, at around 10.45am on […]
Two brothers in New Hampshire have been committed to a Christmas tradition for more than 30 years – passing back and forth the same box of sweets to each other. It started when Ryan Wasson gave his sibling Eric a box of Santa’s Book of Candy fruit sweets in 1987, knowing his brother wouldn’t like […]