Democrat Tim Walz and Republican JD Vance have clashed over the Middle East crisis, immigration, taxes, climate change and energy at a US vice presidential debate whose first half was heavy on policy disagreements but light on personal attacks. The two rivals, who have savaged each other on the campaign trail, largely avoided going after … Read more
Democrat Tim Walz and Republican JD Vance, US politicians whose histories and rhetoric have amassed more headlines than many past vice presidential candidates, are set to go head-to-head in their only debate before the US election. Walz, 60, a liberal governor and former high school teacher, and Vance, 40, a bestselling author and conservative firebrand … Read more
The two astronauts stuck at the International Space Station since June have welcomed their new ride home with the arrival of a SpaceX capsule. SpaceX launched the rescue mission on Saturday with a downsized crew of two astronauts and two empty seats reserved for Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who will return in 2025. WATCH … Read more
John Carter seemed desperate to find his missing fiancée. On the night of August 14, 2011 — less than 24 hours after Katelyn Markham had last been seen in the Cincinnati suburb where she lived — Carter dialled 911 and reported her missing. In the months and years that followed, he repeatedly provided information to … Read more
Tropical Storm Helene has brought life-threatening flooding to the Carolinas after causing wide destruction through Florida and Georgia, killing at least 23 people, swamping neighbourhoods and leaving more than 4 million homes and businesses without power. Helene hit Florida’s Big Bend region as a powerful category-four hurricane on Thursday at 11.10pm and left a chaotic … Read more
Shocking video shows the moment an oceanfront house collapses as waves in the Outer Banks of North Carolina pull it down. The home was the third in the area to be swallowed by the ocean in the past week, after two homes were destroyed in Rodanthe on Friday, according to the National Park Service. WATCH … Read more
A scientific director for the company that owned the Titan submersible that imploded last year while on its way to the Titanic wreckage has testified that the sub malfunctioned just prior to the fatal dive. Appearing before a US Coast Guard panel, Steven Ross told the board about a platform issue the experimental submersible experienced … Read more
A college student has lost all three members of his immediate family following a highway crash in the United States’ northeast. David Dryerman, 54, his wife Michele, 54, and their 17-year-old daughter Brooke were killed on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey about 11.55pm on Saturday. The Woodcliff Lake trio were in a Tesla … Read more
A car has hit and killed a toddler who appeared to have left her home after being put to bed on Friday. The two-year-old girl “got out of her bed and walked out of the house” while her parents were working around the family home in Allen Township, a small community about an hour southeast … Read more
A pregnant woman and her husband have drowned while holidaying in Hawaii, orphaning their 18-month-old son who was staying with other relatives. Ilya and Sophia Tsaruk from Washington state were swimming in the Ahihi-Kinau Natural Area Reserve on the southwest coast of Maui when emergency crews were called to reports of “swimmers/snorkelers in distress in … Read more
