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Johnny Depp has won his multimillion-dollar US lawsuit against former wife Amber Heard after a Virginia jury ruled a 2018 article published in The Washington Post was defamatory. He was awarded $15m by the court – comprising $10m compensatory damages and a further $5m in punitive damages. Amber Heard was awarded $2m in her counter-suit

US military hackers have conducted offensive operations in support of Ukraine, the head of US Cyber Command has told Sky News. In an exclusive interview, General Paul Nakasone also explained how “hunt forward” operations were allowing the United States to search out foreign hackers and identify their tools before they were used against America. Speaking

The first two of the 19 children killed in one of America’s worst school shootings, are being remembered ahead of their burials. Visitation gatherings are being held for 10-year-olds Amerie Jo Garza and Maite Rodriguez at the two funeral homes in the small Texas community of Uvalde. Over the next two-and-a-half weeks, people in the

US and Canadian food regulators are investigating a hepatitis A outbreak that could be linked to fresh organic strawberries. The fruits were sold under the brand names FreshKampo and H-E-B. The produce was available at various retailers across the US, including Aldi, Kroger, Safeway, Walmart and Trader Joe’s, between 5 March and 25 April. In

A 10-year-old has been charged in Florida after allegedly threatening to carry out a mass shooting, US police said. In a statement, Lee County Sheriff’s Office, in Fort Myers, said it had learned on Saturday that a “threatening text message” had been sent by a student at a primary school. The local threat enforcement team

While statistics show most of America’s “active shooter” incidents are over within minutes, it took police in Texas up to an hour to storm the classroom where gunman Salvador Ramos massacred 19 children and two teachers. At a remarkable news briefing amid growing pressure on the authorities to explain the response time, a top official admitted

US President Joe Biden is visiting the scene of country’s largest school shooting in a decade to meet and comfort victims’ families. The president and First Lady Jill Biden will visit a memorial at the school in Uvalde, Texas, attend a church service and also meet with survivors and first responders. It comes as investigators

The 18-year-old who carried out a mass shooting in a Texas elementary school was given the nickname “The Yubo School Shooter” on a social media app he used. Salvador Ramos shot his grandmother before killing 19 children and two teachers this week. He did not leave a note explaining his actions, but messages Ramos sent

In a series of sheds on the edge of a Texas airfield sits the training centre that has set the national standard for how American police deal with active gunmen. It is barely a hundred miles from Uvalde, where 19 students and two teachers were shot dead at their school on Tuesday. The admission by

Donald Trump has described the most recent US school shooting as a “savage and barbaric atrocity” but has criticised those who have called for stricter gun laws. The former US president was a guest speaker at the convention in Houston of the National Rifle Association, a gun rights group. The convention was taking place just

It was the “wrong decision” not to storm the classroom where a gunman was holed up killing primary school children, a Texas official admitted. The extraordinary admission came on Friday at a highly-charged press conference in Uvalde, Texas, where parents have been demanding answers about why 19 students and two teachers lost their lives in

Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey has been charged with four counts of sexual assault against three men, the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said. Rosemary Ainslie, head of the CPS Special Crime Division, said: “The CPS has authorised criminal charges against Kevin Spacey, 62, for four counts of sexual assault against three men. “He has

Amber Heard made an emotional return to the stand as Johnny Depp’s libel trial against her entered its final stretch, reminding jurors she is “a human being” and saying: “I just want Johnny to leave me alone.” In her second round of direct evidence in the high-profile case on Thursday, the actress was tearful as

Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro and Kevin Costner have paid tribute to the “uniquely gifted” Ray Liotta, who has died age 67. The actor died in his sleep in the Dominican Republic where he was making a new film. No foul play is suspected. Liotta is best known for playing real-life mobster Henry Hill in

Engineers have unveiled the smallest remote-controlled walking robot ever created – even tinier than a flea. The tiny robotic crab can “walk, bend, twist, turn and jump” according to engineers from Northwestern University in the US. It could signal the beginning of a new era of microscale robotics. The little machine isn’t powered by miniaturised

Mass shootings in the United States are always followed by desperate calls for gun reform by Democrats, anti-firearms campaigners and victims’ families. In the wake of Tuesday’s massacre in Uvalde, Texas, which killed 19 pupils and two teachers at Robb Elementary School, President Joe Biden demanded America “turn pain into action” and asked: “When in

The man who identified victims of the Texas shooting said he found friends’ children and one of his former schoolmates lying among the dead. Eulalio Diaz Jr, Uvalde’s justice of the peace, had the awful task of identifying the bodies. He acts as coroner because the small town does not have a medical examiner. He

The Duchess of Sussex has laid flowers at the site of a school shooting in Texas in which 19 children and two teachers were killed. Meghan placed a bouquet of white roses tied with a purple ribbon at a row of crosses put up in memory of the victims in Uvalde. The blooms were laid

Questions are being asked about how much time elapsed before police stormed a Texas primary school classroom to end a rampage by a gunman inside. Texas Department of Public Safety director Steve McCraw said that 40 minutes to an hour had elapsed from when Salvador Ramos first opened fire on the school security officer, to

A girl saw her teacher killed in the Texas shooting but reportedly survived by lying on one of her classmates and smearing the girl’s blood on herself to “play dead”. Miah Cerrillo’s family have been describing the terrifying ordeal suffered by the 11-year-old, who has been left with bullet fragments in her body and singed