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A three-year-old boy who went missing for four days after chasing a family dog has been found alive in a wooded area. Christopher Ramirez, from Texas, was found on Saturday following a tip-off and was being taken to a hospital for evaluation, Grimes County Sheriff Don Sowell said. He said the boy appeared to be

A US navy engineer who is alleged to have hidden a memory card loaded with classified files in a peanut butter sandwich before leaving it at a “dead drop” location, has been charged with selling secrets about nuclear submarines. Jonathan Toebbe is alleged with trying to pass information about the design of American nuclear-powered submarines

Tyson Fury has retained his WBC heavyweight title after knocking out Deontay Wilder in a spellbinding contest in Las Vegas. In a bout featuring five knockdowns, Wilder touched down first and looked to be hanging on at the end of the third round, but he turned the fight on its head in the fourth. Image:

Officials in Texas have won a federal appeal to temporarily reinstate its controversial abortion law – just one day after clinics across the US state resumed services for the first time since early September. Earlier this week, the Biden administration had successfully blocked the law, known as Senate Bill 8, but the 5th US Court

Tyson Fury channelled wrestling legend The Undertaker as he and Deontay Wilder both weighed in at their career heaviest ahead of their fight in Las Vegas on Saturday. For the second time this week there was no face-off between the boxers, but Fury promised his extra weight meant “total obliteration of a dosser. Total annihilation”.

Electric carmaker Tesla is to move its headquarters from California to Texas, chief executive Elon Musk has said. The announcement comes after the billionaire tycoon was embroiled in a row with West Coast politicians over their handling of the coronavirus crisis. Tesla will be the latest in a number of firms, including Hewlett Packard and

A US nuclear-powered submarine hit an unknown object in the South China Sea with 11 sailors suffering mainly minor injuries, according to officials. The USS Connecticut is in a “safe and stable condition” after the incident on 2 October, said a statement by the US Pacific Fleet. The Seawolf-class attack submarine is nuclear-powered but the

A California doctor has been arrested following a hit-and-run collision that killed a nurse who had stopped to help a crash victim. James Leonard Comazzi was detained after a months-long investigation aided by an anonymous tip-off. Juliana Ramos, a 26-year-old nurse and mother of three, had pulled over to help someone hurt in a collision

A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked the enforcement of a near total ban on abortion in the state, calling the law “flagrantly unconstitutional”. Senate Bill 8 has been dubbed the “Heartbeat Bill” because it bans abortion once cardiac activity in a embryo can be detected on an ultrasound scan, often as early as

A US judge has agreed for Prince Andrew’s lawyers to receive a copy of a 2009 settlement they believe will nullify his accuser Virginia Giuffre’s civil assault case against the royal. Andrew B Brettler, who represents the Duke of York, had argued at a previous hearing that Ms Giuffre – who is suing the Queen’s

Facebook’s chief executive has denied claims that the company prioritises profit over the safety of its users. Mark Zuckerberg was responding to Frances Haugen’s claims that, left alone, Facebook would “continue to make choices that go against the common good – our common good”. Ms Haugen – a former product manager at the tech giant

Facebook’s products “harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy”, a whistleblower has claimed. Frances Haugen – who used to work as a product manager at the tech giant – has given damning evidence to US politicians in the Senate, days after leaking internal documents to the Wall Street Journal. She warned: “Left alone, Facebook

Even on a Monday morning, the beaches would usually be bustling in the place that calls itself “Surf City USA”. But the sands in Huntington Beach in California are deserted. So too, the beaches that stretch for miles south. The closures are part of a massive response to the spill of thousands of gallons of

A high performance electric car has gone into production in the US with a certified range of 520 miles – the longest currently on the open market. The Air Dream model by Tesla rival Lucid received good reviews from American media over the weekend, after it went into mass manufacture at its Arizona factory last

An emergency clean-up effort is under way in Huntington Beach, California, after a massive oil spill described by the city’s mayor as an “environmental catastrophe”. More than 572,000 litres – 3,000 barrels – of heavy crude spilled into the Pacific Ocean between Huntington Beach Pier and Newport Beach, a distance of more than five miles.

The body of a missing student has been found just days after the prime suspect in her death killed himself. Miya Marcano, 19, was found in a wooded area near an apartment building in Orlando, Florida. She was reported missing on 24 September after she failed to catch a flight home to Fort Lauderdale and

Donald Trump has asked a federal judge in the US to force Twitter to restore his account, which was shut down after his supporters attacked the US Capitol in January. The former US president has filed a request for preliminary injunction against the social media company in the US District Court for the Southern District

Gabby Petito, a 22-year-old blogger whose body was found in a US national park, told police about a domestic dispute with her boyfriend the month before she disappeared. Ms Petito was found dead in Wyoming on 18 September and police are investigating her death as a homicide. Her boyfriend Brian Laundrie, 23, was charged last

In the skies over Hollywood a small plane pulls a banner reading “vote yes”. On a monitor on a movie set, the same words are scrawled on a piece of luminous tape. On a crane hoisting bits of scenery into place, the same slogan is emblazoned in big letters. Image: The workers are angry about

America’s special envoy on climate change John Kerry has told Sky News that strained relations between the US and China have made it harder for him to do his job. Speaking exclusively to Sky from a climate summit in Milan, Mr Kerry said his ability to persuade China to be more ambitious in reducing its