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A New York judge on Wednesday rejected a request by former US President Donald Trump to postpone his testimony, scheduled for next week, in a defamation case against a former journalist who accuses him of rape in the years 1990, says a court document. In this case, E. Jean Carroll, …

Former US President Donald Trump harshly criticized his successor, Joe Biden, whom he accuses of not understanding the issues surrounding the current conflict in Ukraine and of dragging the world into a new global conflict. “We have a war between Russia and Ukraine with potentially hundreds of thousands of people …

A second death linked to monkeypox has been recorded in the United States, health authorities announced on Tuesday, as new infections are falling in the country. The first recorded death of a person with monkeypox was announced in late August in Texas, but authorities then said they were continuing to …

A retired New York police officer was sentenced to ten years in prison in Washington for his participation in the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, the longest sentence handed down to date against one of the attackers. Thomas Webster, aged 56, attacked a police officer with the …

US Department of Justice on Tuesday released new photos of so-called “classified” documents seized from the Florida residence of former President Donald Trump. Documents classified top-secret, some bearing the sign “HCS”, which in the language of the American intelligence community designates information provided by “human sources”, informants and other undercover …

Three US police officers have been suspended after footage emerged online showing them violently beating a man during an arrest in Arkansas, authorities said on Sunday evening. In the video, which created outrage on social networks, police officers hold down a white man, punching him hard in the head and …

U.S. health officials announced Wednesday that soil and water samples taken from Mississippi contain bacteria that cause a rare but serious disease called melioidosis. They thus alerted doctors in the country, asking them to be vigilant in the face of possible symptoms of this disease in patients. Two individuals living …

The United States recorded its first case of polio on Thursday for almost a decade, according to New York State health authorities. A person residing in the county of Rockland, 48 km north of Manhattan, tested positive for the disease, his case indicating “a chain of transmission coming from an …

Seventeen US lawmakers, including rising left-wing star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, were arrested in Washington on Tuesday following a demonstration to defend the right to abortion, police said. “We have arrested a total of 35 people” including “17 members of Congress” because after three summons, “some of the demonstrators (refused) to leave …

An 80-year-old woman died in the United States after being attacked by two alligators, The New York Times reported on Sunday. The victim, whose name has not been released by the authorities, fell around 8 p.m. on Friday in a pond near a golf course and near his home, said …