A second person has died after an explosion tore through a Pennsylvania steel plant on Monday, local officials have confirmed. The body was discovered after a search operation which stretched into the evening at the US Steel Clairton site outside Pittsburgh. Local police earlier confirmed that one other person had died and 10 others were injured in a large explosion which destroyed part of the……

Published on：2025-08-12

Dozens of Texas Democrats have secretly left the state in a dramatic effort to stop Republicans from holding a vote that could determine the balance of power in the US Congress. Republican Governor Greg Abbot has issued orders that they be arrested on sight – and fined $500 a day. He has also threatened to expel them from office. The Democrats left because at least two-thirds of the 150-m……

Published on：2025-08-06

US President Donald Trump has presented a new, shorter deadline for Russia to agree to a ceasefire over the war in Ukraine of “ten or 12 days” from Monday. President Trump said there was “no reason” in waiting any longer as no progress towards peace had been made. Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky called the intervention “extremely significant”. Two week……

Published on：2025-07-29

US President Donald Trump’s administration has released a trove of records on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, including FBI surveillance files on the civil rights leader. A court-imposed order had kept the FBI documents, totalling 230,000 pages, blocked from public view since 1977. Many members of King’s family had opposed the release. A statement from his two living chi……

Published on：2025-07-22

Three officers have died in an explosion at a law enforcement training facility in east Los Angeles, officials say. The blast occurred at around 07:30 local time (15:30 BST) on Friday at the Biscailuz Center Academy Training facility, which houses the sheriff’s department’s special enforcement bureau and arson explosives detail, including the bomb squad. The exact cause of the explo……

Published on：2025-07-21

President Donald Trump says Coca-Cola has agreed to use real cane sugar in its drinks sold in the US. Coca-Cola uses corn syrup in its American products, but Trump’s Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has voiced concern about the ingredient’s health impacts. “I have been speaking to Coca-Cola about using REAL Cane Sugar in Coke in the United States, and they have agreed to ……

Published on：2025-07-17

The European Union (EU) and Mexico have expressed disappointment at US President Donald Trump’s threat to impose 30% tariffs on their imports from 1 August. Mexico criticised what it called Trump’s “unfair deal” and insisted its sovereignty was non-negotiable, while the EU’s chief, Ursula von der Leyen threatened to take “proportionate countermeasures”,……

Published on：2025-07-14

Deadly storms over the 4 July holiday ravaged Texas’ Hill Country with several months’ worth of rain in a few hours, leaving behind mangled trees, swaths of deep mud and heartbreak over hundreds lost or missing. They also renewed focus on the US government’s ability to warn and protect residents from weather catastrophes. The intense rainfall and flash floods are the deadliest……

Published on：2025-07-09

US President Donald Trump has said he thinks talks to end the war in Gaza have been “going along very well”, as he hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington DC. Trump also expressed confidence that Hamas was willing to end the 21-month conflict. “They want to meet and they want to have that ceasefire,” he said in unexpected remarks to reporters at th……

Published on：2025-07-08

US President Donald Trump has called for the chair of the Federal Reserve to quit “immediately”, in an escalation of his attacks on Jerome Powell. “‘Too Late’ should resign immediately!!!”, Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform. He also included a link to a news article about a US federal housing regulator calling for Mr Powell to be investigated……

Published on：2025-07-03