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A woman was rescued from a “five-hour hostage situation” after including a note saying “please call the police” with a takeaway order. Staff at a restaurant in New York state say they raised the alarm when they received a worrying request through delivery app Grubhub, NBC reports. In the additional instructions portion of her order,

A plane carrying 126 people caught fire after it was forced to crash land at Miami International Airport when its front landing gear failed. The Red Air flight was arriving from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on Tuesday when it skidded along the runway, ripped through a communications tower and came to a stop on the

The Robb Elementary School, where 19 students and two teachers were gunned down, is to be demolished. High school dropout Salvador Ramos, went on a murderous rampage at the school in Uvalde in south western Texas last month. And so devastated is the small close-knit community by the tragedy that the decision has now been

Multiple police officers armed with rifles and at least one ballistic shield were on site at the Texas school shooting within 19 minutes – but they didn’t breach the classroom and stop the gunman for another hour, new reports suggest. According to documents reviewed by the Austin American-Statesman newspaper and local KVUE-TV, officers with heavier

Elon Musk’s transgender daughter has applied to legally change her name because she no longer wants to “live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form”. The petition for both a name change and a new birth certificate reflecting her new gender identity was filed withthe Los

A police officer armed with a rifle hesitated when he had an opportunity to shoot the Uvalde school gunman, it has been reported. The unidentified city officer, who was carrying an AR-15-style weapon, apparently paused because he feared hitting children, a senior sheriff’s deputy told The New York Times. Another officer from a different department

Donald Trump “poured gasoline on the fire” during the riots at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021, a House investigation has heard. And some of Mr Trump’s closest advisers thought an attempt to overturn the 2020 US presidential election was “crazy”, the select committee has also been told. The latest session focused on an

Actress Denise Richards has said she cannot judge her 18-year-old daughter for having an OnlyFans account, as she defended her against negative online criticism. Sami Sheen, is the daughter of actor Charlie Sheen, 56, and his ex-wife Richards, 51. In an Instagram post reacting to “negative comments”, Richards shared her support for her daughters account,

US President Joe Biden has fallen off his bike in Delaware as he celebrated his 45th wedding anniversary on a weekend away with wife Jill. He took a tumble when he tried to get off his bike at the end of a ride on Saturday at Cape Henlopen State Park near his beach home in

A pensioner shot dead three guests at a church potluck dinner in a wealthy suburb of Alabama. Police said the 71-year-old man, who had previously attended services at the St Stephen’s Episcopal Church, pulled out a handgun at the event and killed three elderly participants, one of whom died in his wife’s arms. Another guest

In a characteristically bombastic speech, former President Donald Trump has spoken for the first time publicly about the Capitol riots hearing – dismissing it as “crazy” and a “theatrical production of partisan political fiction”. At the Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference on Friday in Nashville, Mr Trump described the riots on 6 January 2021 –

Amber Heard was “ice cold” and “didn’t seem natural” in court, a juror in the multimillion-dollar libel case brought by her ex-husband Johnny Depp has said. Speaking anonymously to Good Morning America, he revealed one of the reasons that the jury ruled against the actress was because her testimony “didn’t come across as believable”. “It

A dozen children were served floor sealant instead of milk at a day care summer programme at a school in Alaska. Several students complained that their mouths and throats were burning shortly after being served breakfast on Tuesday, and at least one child was taken to hospital for treatment. Police in the Alaskan state capital

A Republican state representative who describes himself as a death penalty supporter has said he believes that death row inmate Richard Glossip is innocent. Kevin McDugle, from Oklahoma, was responding to a report by a Houston law firm into Glossip’s case. He said: “We’ve got an individual sitting on death row that has been there

The street in front of the Saudi embassy in Washington DC has been renamed Jamal Khashoggi Way. The local council voted unanimously last year to rename the one-block stretch after the activist and journalist was murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018. Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of DAWN, the pro-Arab democracy