A man who spent 35 years behind bars in the US after being wrongly convicted of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl has been freed from prison thanks to a DNA breakthrough. Louis Wright, now aged 65, had lived near the child's home in Albion, Michigan, at the time of the...
Makaylia Jolley: Mother, 21, ‘will die in prison’ after slamming baby girl on concrete and killing her
A mother who admitted repeatedly "slamming" her baby girl onto concrete has been sentenced to life in prison for her murder, without the chance of parole. Makaylia Jolley, 21, from Mississippi, took her two-month-old daughter Khalysie "by the ankles, slammed her into the pavement multiple times, and then left her",...
Republican presidential rivals lock horns as absent Donald Trump mocks ‘unwatchable’ debate
Donald Trump's rivals for the Republican presidential nomination have taken to the stage in Florida as they try to dislodge the frontrunner from his commanding lead in opinion polls. Local Governor Ron DeSantis and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley both criticized the former president for skipping a third event. Meanwhile,...
Chinese regulators propose two-hour phone limit per day for under 18s
Chinese regulators have proposed rules that would limit under 18s to a maximum of two hours a day on their smartphones. The country's cyberspace regulator said it wanted providers of smart devices to introduce a so-called 'minor mode' which would bar users under the age of 18 from accessing the...
Yacht that Princess Diana spent last summer on with Dodi Al-Fayed sinks to bottom of Mediterranean
A motor yacht used by Princess Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Al-Fayed on their final summer holiday in the South of France before they died in a Paris car crash has sunk. The 19m (62ft) Cujo went down 21 miles (35 km) off Beaulieu-sur-Mer after sending out a mayday call...
Carlee Russell: Woman whose kidnapping sparked nationwide search admits she wasn’t abducted
A woman has admitted that she lied about being kidnapped in Alabama. Carlee Russell had claimed she was abducted after stopping to check on a toddler who was walking on the side of a busy highway. The 25-year-old had called 911 shortly before disappearing on 13 July - sparking a...
Unarmed truck driver attacked by police dog after surrendering to officers in Ohio
Police in Ohio have launched an investigation after a 23-year-old truck driver was attacked by a police dog after surrendering to officers with his hands up. Driver Jadarrius Rose was pursued by the Ohio State Highway Patrol on 4 July after failing to stop his truck that was "missing a...
FTX co-founder and former head of hedge fund Alameda Research plead guilty to multiple charges and are cooperating with justice
Two high-ranking executives linked to the crashing cryptocurrency exchange FTX have pleaded guilty to multiple criminal charges and are cooperating with federal prosecutors, according to declassified court records. Gary Wang, former co-founder of FTX, and Caroline Ellison, former CEO of hedge fund Alameda Research and girlfriend of Sam Bankman-Fried, have...
Chaos in the US: there are already thousands of canceled and delayed flights
More and more canceled flights are piling up for Christmas Eve in the United States. Snow, rain, ice, wind, and freezing temperatures are disrupting air travel plans across the United States. Airlines have canceled more than 2,200 flights scheduled for Thursday through 4:30 p.m. Miami time and proactively canceled more...
Homicide is one of the leading causes of death among US children (and rates are rising)
Homicide is one of the leading causes of child death in the United States, according to a new study, and the overall rate has increased an average of 4.3% each year for nearly a decade. Black children died from this cause more than any other group, and firearms were the...