Millions of dollars in Bitcoin paid to hackers after the Colonial Pipeline cyber attack have been recovered by the US government. The attack prompted the shutdown of the east coast fuel pipeline last month and a $4.4m (£3.1m) payment was made to Russia-based DarkSide attackers. Officials confirmed on Monday that 63.7 bitcoins, valued at approximately
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Six people, including four children, have died in Kentucky after a car being driven the wrong way on a highway hit another vehicle. The driver was heading south in the northbound lanes of the Interstate 75 when she crashed with a car carrying five people in Lexington on Saturday, killing all six involved. A statement
YouTuber Logan Paul avoided a knockout and managed to drag Floyd Mayweather to the final bell during their boxing match in Miami. Neither man was judged the winner, as per exhibition rules, but Paul emerged with dignity from his bizarre clash against the boxing great. Paul’s only previous boxing match was a loss to fellow
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have welcomed their second child – a baby daughter named Lilibet “Lili” Diana Mountbatten-Windsor. Harry and Meghan announced that the infant, a first sibling for Archie, was born on Friday in California. Lili is named after her great-grandmother the Queen – who was affectionately nicknamed Lilibet by her family
More coffins of people believed to be victims of the 1921 race massacre in Tulsa have been found, city officials have said. Crews searching Oaklawn Cemetery found five more coffins, bringing the total number discovered at the mass-grave site to 20. The search began last year, with researchers finding at least 12 sets of remains,
There is no evidence that aerial phenomena witnessed by military pilots in recent years are alien spacecraft, according to a US intelligence report. But the report’s unclassified version, expected to be released to Congress by 25 June, is understood to conclude that most of the more than 120 incidents over the past two decades did
Former Nickelodeon TV star Drake Bell has been charged with attempted child endangerment and disseminating matter harmful to children. Bell, whose real first name is Jared, pleaded not guilty to both charges and is scheduled to appear in an Ohio court for a pre-trial hearing on 23 June. According to the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office,
Donald Trump has been suspended from Facebook until at least January 2023 after he “praised people” who took part in violence during the US Capitol riot. The social media giant’s independent oversight board had in May upheld Facebook’s block on the former president. However, the board ruled it was wrong to make the ban indefinite
F Lee Bailey, one of the most famous defence lawyers of his generation, has died at the age of 87, his former colleague has said. The criminal defence lawyer is best known for representing and helping to acquit OJ Simpson and Dr Sam Sheppard, who were both accused of murdering their wives. He also famously
Two runaway children broke into a Florida house and used an AK-47 in a shootout with sheriff’s deputies. The boy, 12, and girl, 14, found the weapons in a house in Enterprise after running away from the Florida United Methodist Children’s Home. There were four exchanges of gunfire over 35 minutes and Volusia County sheriff’s
Prosecutors have asked a judge to sentence Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer found guilty of murdering George Floyd, to 30 years in prison. In court documents filed on Wednesday, prosecutors cite the trial judge’s ruling last month that there were four aggravating factorsin Floyd‘s murder. But a defence lawyer wants Chauvin to be sentenced
Donald Trump has shut down his blog, with no plans for the page to return to his website. The former president launched the “From The Desk of Donald J. Trump” platform less than a month ago, after he was banned from multiple social media outlets. However, it has now been removed from his website. Image:
Joe Biden has become the first sitting US president to visit the site of the Tulsa massacre – 100 years since one of America’s darkest episodes of racial violence. Hundreds of black people were killed by a white mob in the city’s Greenwood district between 31 May and 1 June 1921. Mr Biden led a
Hundreds of people gathered outside a church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the deadliest racist massacre in the US – and President Joe Biden is set to honour the victims later today. The Tulsa race massacre took place between 31 May and 1 June 1921, when white residents in Tulsa’s Greenwood
Betty DeVille, who is the mother to the unruly twins Phil and Lil in the 90s cartoon Rugrats, is an openly gay woman in the show’s reboot, her voice actor has revealed. Natalie Morales is the new voice behind Betty in the show’s 3D reboot on Paramount+, which sees the diapered heroes on new adventures.
A copy of a Bob Dylan album has been returned to an Ohio library 48 years after it was due back. Howard Simon returned the Self Portrait record, which he describes as one of “Dylan‘s least-loved albums”, with a letter explaining the almost five-decade delay in giving it back to the Cleveland Heights library in
Actor Joe Lara – best known for starring in the TV series Tarzan: The Epic Adventures – has been killed in a plane crash in Tennessee. The star, 58, was one of seven people to die when a small jet crashed into a lake near the town of Smyrna. His wife, Gwen Shamblin Lara, who
Gavin MacLeod, known for his roles on classic US sitcoms The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Love Boat, has died aged 90. He died early on Saturday at his home in Palm Desert, California, his stepdaughter Stephanie Steele Zalin said. She attributed his death to his age and said he had been well until
People in California are being offered the chance to win a $1.5m (£1.06m) lottery prize if they get a coronavirus vaccine. Ten vaccinated residents will be given the jackpot prize when the state fully reopens on 15 June, governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday. Anyone over the age of 12 who has not been vaccinated
President Biden has announced his first annual budget – a $6trn (£4.2trn) package that includes investment in fighting climate change and steep tax hikes for the wealthy. The US federal government’s spending plan for the fiscal year ending September 2022 would increase spending on infrastructure, education and provisions for the poor and middle class. However,