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British billionaire Joe Lewis, whose family trust owns the Tottenham Hotspur football club, will not spend any time in prison after he pleaded guilty to insider trading and conspiracy charges in New York, a US federal judge said. Judge G.L.…

A US federal judge refused to throw out the classified documents prosecution against Donald Trump, turning aside defence arguments that a decades-old law permitted the former president to retain the records after he left office. Lawyers for Mr Trump, in…

A major spring storm brought heavy snow, rain and high winds to the north east of the US, causing more than 680,000 power outages across the region with the majority in the states of Maine and New Hampshire. A woman…

Migrant children who wait in makeshift camps along the US-Mexico border for the Border Patrol to process them are in the agency’s custody and are subject to a long-standing court-supervised agreement that set standards for their treatment, a judge ruled.…

A Georgia judge on Thursday rejected Donald Trump’s bid to dismiss criminal charges in the state’s 2020 election interference case against him, which the Republican former US president argued violate his free speech rights. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott…

French president Emmanuel Macron said that France and its allies could have stopped the 1994 Rwanda genocide but lacked the will to do so, a strong declaration ahead of the African country’s 30th anniversary of the slaughter that left over…

A man convicted of shooting and killing two people in Oklahoma City more than two decades ago was executed on Thursday morning. Michael Dewayne Smith received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was pronounced dead…

Russia and Nato are now in “direct confrontation”, the Kremlin said as the US-led alliance marked its 75th anniversary on Thursday. Nato’s successive waves of eastern enlargement are a fixation of president Vladimir Putin, who went to war in Ukraine…

Controlling immigration is more important than “membership of a foreign court”, the UK prime minister has said in his strongest hint yet that he could back leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). In an interview on Wednesday, Rishi…

Republican Donald Trump leads president Joe Biden in six battleground states in the 2024 US presidential election, according to a Wall Street Journal poll released on Wednesday that cited concerns about the economy and Mr Biden’s performance. Mr Trump garnered…