Tiger Woods is undergoing surgery for “multiple leg injuries” after being cut from his car following an accident in Los Angeles. The accident happened on the border of Rolling Hills Estates and Rancho Palos Verdes on Tuesday morning. LA County Sheriff’s Department said Woods was the only person in the car. Image: The 45-year-old golfer
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President Joe Biden has led a minute’s silence to honour America’s coronavirus victims after the country became the first to record more than half a million deaths. As 500 lit candles lined the White House steps to commemorate the dead, a military band played Amazing Grace and the president made his emotional remarks. “Today we
The US has become the first country to record more than half a million deaths with coronavirus. The pandemic has now seen 500,071 COVID-related fatalities in the country and more than 28 million people infected, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus tracker. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are to commemorate the huge
Boeing has recommended temporarily stopping flights of planes with a similar engine to one that suffered a catastrophic failure mid-flight over the weekend. A United Airlines bound for Hawaii was forced into an emergency landing on Saturday as its right engine was seen engulfed in flames and debris plunged towards the ground. All 231 passengers
Donald Trump is expected next Sunday to make his first public appearance since leaving office. The former US president, who departed the White House on 20 January, is set to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida. The full line-up of the annual gathering of conservative politicians and media figures has
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has raised more than $3m (£2.1m) for Texans struggling with recent extreme weather in the state. The Democrat Congresswoman from New York announced the landmark on Twitter on Saturday after she travelled to Houston to help the recovery effort. Hundreds of thousands of Texans have been struggling with the fallout of a winter
US President Joe Biden has declared a major disaster in Texas as the state continues to struggle with extreme winter weather. The unusual winter storm crippled the state’s power grid and, despite Texas being rich in oil and gas, millions of residents were without power for days. Supply has resumed but it remains intermittent, with
Millions of people in parts of the southern US are having to boil water before drinking it after ruptured pipes caused by record low temperatures may have contaminated the water supply. In Texas, seven million people – a quarter of the population of the nation’s second-largest state – were under orders to boil tap water
Kim Kardashian has filed for divorce from husband Kanye West after nearly seven years of marriage. A Los Angeles Superior Court spokeswoman confirmed to Reuters that Kardashian filed the divorce papers on Friday. A representative for Kardashian, 40, also confirmed that she had filed papers. Entertainment websites E! News, TMZ and Variety first reported on
Texas senator Ted Cruz flew to Mexico with his family while the state he represents deals with power outages and water supply issues due to freezing temperatures. Parts of Texas have been without power for four days, with hospitals facing a loss of water pressure and heat. Meanwhile, the prominent Republican flew to the resort
NASA’s mission to search for signs of ancient life on Mars has sent back its first images from the surface of the Red Planet after a successful landing. The historic moment was the culmination of a seven-month journey in space and a considerably shorter trip through the Martian atmosphere. Claps and cheers erupted from the
Dylan Buckner had made plans to see a female friend on Friday night. By 3.05pm on Thursday he had taken his own life. Nothing in his behaviour that week had given anyone any cause for concern. But the 18-year-old high school football star is, in the eyes of his family, one of the hidden victims
Sitting on a chair, on his own, Charles Burns looks exhausted. He has a big, woolly hat on, emblazoned with the word DALLAS, and he’s wrapped up for the cold. But his shoulders are hunched and his eyes are glazed. Smiling takes effort. He is taking refuge at a so-called warming shelter in the town
A winter storm sweeping across the US has left millions without power and killed at least 20. The rare bout of weather, which had earlier hit the Southern Plains, brought heavy snow and freezing rain into New England and the Deep South, knocking out power and shutting schools and shops More freezing temperatures are forecast,
Rare frigid weather in America’s southern states has been caused by a polar vortex. Five people have died after ice storms, plummeting temperatures and heavy snowfall swept across a number of states not used to dealing with such conditions. Two people were killed in Texas and two more in Kentucky – both in crashes on
Five people have died after rare ice storms, frigid temperatures and heavy snowfall swept across the southern US. Two people were killed in Texas and two more in Kentucky – both in crashes on treacherous roads, which local officials believe were likely caused by the weather. Another died in the unusually cold conditions in Louisiana,