Singer’s lawyer rejects accusation from staff member after police attend her home on Monday nightBritney Spears is under investigation for alleged battery after a staff member at her home accused the singer of striking her, US authorities have said.Pol…
The west’s nation-building fantasy is to blame for the mess in Afghanistan | Simon Jenkins
British MPs have turned on Boris Johnson – but what tidy end did they expect from this imperialist experiment?Britain’s MPs this week uttered one long howl of anguish over Afghanistan. Their immediate targets were Joe Biden and Boris Johnson, politicia…
‘Move heaven and earth’: pressure on Biden to speed up visas for Afghans who helped US
Members of Congress warn that those who aided US military are in grave danger as they wait for evacuations and paperworkFor the two decades the US waged war in Afghanistan, hundreds of thousands of Afghans worked with American forces at great risk to t…
Investigators seek clues after California family found dead on hiking trail
Deaths of couple, their daughter and their dog remain unexplained, says sheriff’s officeInvestigators were searching for clues in the unexplained deaths of a California couple, their baby and the family dog in a remote area of the Sierra national fores…
Joe Biden says he and first lady plan on getting Covid booster shot
President defends shots as millions worldwide are unvaccinated: US has ‘provided more to the rest of the world than all the rest of the world combined’Joe Biden has said that he and first lady Jill Biden plan on getting a booster shot and is comfortabl…
California fire destroys mobile homes as 11,000 firefighters battle blazes
Dry and windy weather hampers efforts to fight dozens of firesDixie fire, California’s biggest, only 35% containedDry and windy weather hampered efforts to contain destructive fires that are devouring the bone-dry forests of drought-stricken northern C…
US renews fight with Facebook arguing company holds monopoly
The agency also dismissed a request by the tech giant that chair Lina Khan recuse herself from the caseThe Federal Trade Commission on Thursday refiled its antitrust case against Facebook, arguing the company holds monopoly power in social networking a…
Woman condemned in Salem witch trials on verge of pardon 328 years later
Elizabeth Johnson Jr, who was convicted and sentenced to death in 1693, could be cleared thanks to an eighth-grade civics classMore than three centuries after a Massachusetts woman was convicted of witchcraft and sentenced to death, she’s finally on th…
Taliban have not changed, says Biden as US military evacuations reach 7,000 – live
Three senators test positive for Covid-19 and urge vaccinationsPresident sits down with ABC News to defend decision to withdrawUSCP: active bomb threat investigation’ occurring at the CapitolPoll: most Americans say Afghanistan war was not worthwhileDe…
Trump team thought UK officials ‘out of their minds’ aiming for herd immunity, book says
Trump officials tried to convince him to take threat seriously and British experts ‘oddly pessimistic’ on defeating virus, says bookUS officials thought their British counterparts “were out of their minds” in aiming for herd immunity as part of Boris J…