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Satellite images have captured the extent of the devastation caused by wildfires in Texas. The unbridled Smokehouse Creek Fire, the largest of all the blazes, has been burning since Monday. It has spread to the Oklahoma border after starting near towns northeast of Amarillo – and the weather forecast for the weekend threatens to fuel

Mitch McConnell has been around a while. Reagan was in the White House when the young Kentucky politician first arrived on Capitol Hill. And it’s the politics of Reagan which have shaped Mitch McConnell in the decades since. The 82-year-old has led the Republicans on ‘the Hill’ as majority and minority leader through many Conservative

Donald Trump has defeated Nikki Haley in the South Carolina Republican primary, NBC News has projected. The result will further cement his grip on the race to be his party’s nominee for president. Mr Trump claimed his fourth straight primary win on Saturday, handing an embarrassing loss to his last remaining major rival in her

The Odysseus moon lander has successfully touched down. The privately-owned Intuitive Machines’ lander is the first US lander to successfully touch down on the moon’s surface in more than 50 years – since the last of NASA’s Apollo programme in 1972. It is also the first ever private craft to land on the moon. There

Joe Biden has sparked a war of words with the Kremlin after he called Vladimir Putin a “crazy SOB” at a fundraiser. Speaking at an event in San Francisco, the president fired a barb at his Russian counterpart while discussing the effects of climate change. “This is the last existential threat. It is climate,” Mr

An Alabama medical centre has stopped all IVF treatments after a court ruled that embryos are babies. The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), an academic medical centre, suspended its IVF treatments so it could consider the legal repercussions of the decision, made by the state’s supreme court. The ruling was made in a case

A young girl has died after being buried in sand on a beach in Florida. She was digging a deep hole with a little boy when it collapsed on Tuesday. Emergency crews arrived at the scene and found the boy buried up to his chest in sand, while the girl was trapped underneath. Image: Investigators

Donald Trump is promoting a line of Trump-branded trainers for $399 (£316) a pair. The presidential hopeful appeared at “Sneaker Con” in Philadelphia, a footwear convention which brands itself “The Greatest Sneaker Show on Earth”. Trump was met with boos and cheers at the Philadelphia Convention Centre as he introduced what he called the first

Former US president Donald Trump has been fined $354.9m after a civil fraud trial in New York. The judge also banned Trump from running businesses in New York for three years. His sons, Eric and Donald Jr, received similar bans for two years. Trump and the Trump Organisation were also banned from applying for loans

The family of Beach Boys star Brian Wilson are seeking a conservatorship over concerns about the 81-year-old’s health. Court documents obtained by several US outlets claim the musician is suffering from a “major neurocognitive disorder (such as dementia).” A statement on Wilson’s website from his family confirms two family representatives will serve as co-conservators. The

The head of the US House Intelligence Committee is calling on Joe Biden to declassify information about “a serious national security threat”. Republican congressman Mike Turner gave no details about the nature of the threat, but a senior aide said that they understood the threat relates to a space-deployed Russian anti-satellite weapon that may or

A car has crashed into an A&E department in Texas – killing one person and injuring five others. A child is in a life-threatening condition after the vehicle smashed into the lobby of the emergency room at St David’s North Austin Medical Centre shortly after 5.30pm on Tuesday. The driver received CPR but died at

Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to extend a delay in his trial for attempting to overturn the result of the 2020 US election, arguing he is immune from prosecution. The former president’s lawyers have filed an emergency appeal asking the justices to pause a ruling made by a three-judge panel of the federal

Bitcoin has returned to the $50,000 level for the first time since December 2021, riding on the coat tails of a wider rally for US stocks. The world’s largest cryptocurrency, which hit one-month highs last Friday, maintained its momentum on Monday by rising almost 5%. Rivals, such as ether, saw similar percentage moves. Analysts credited

Allies of Joe Biden have said attacks on the president’s age are a “bucket of BS” after a report called his mental capacity into question. Last week, the president was hit by fresh attacks on his fitness for the Oval Office when special counsel Robert Hur’s ruling on his handling of classified documents said he

Elon Musk has been ordered to testify for a third time in the probe into his takeover of Twitter, now known as X. US magistrate judge Laurel Beeler issued an order on Saturday night after Musk failed to appear before the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on the arranged date. The judge said Musk “did

President Joe Biden has warned Israel against launching a military operation in Rafah, southern Gaza, without a “credible” plan to protect civilians, the White House said on Sunday. Mr Biden spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday amid Israel’s plans for an offensive in the region that borders Egypt, to the south of the

The chief executive of one of Nigeria’s largest banks is believed to have been killed along with his wife and son when a helicopter they were riding in crashed in Southern California’s Mojave Desert. Herbert Wigwe, chief executive of Access Bank, and his family were among six people on board when the charter flight went

Inside the Diplomatic Reception room of the White House, the tone was telling. A news conference with a US president is typically a calm, controlled affair. Questions to Joe Biden, 81, about his mental sharpness have tended to be isolated and empathetic. Not last night. During a hastily arranged 8pm gathering, he faced the aggressive

Joe Biden couldn’t remember when he was vice president, according to a new report. And, according to the same investigation, he couldn’t remember when his son died. Then, when trying to reassure everyone about the claims about his memory, he confused the presidents of Mexico and Egypt. Not ideal for someone who wants to run