A divided federal appeals court has ordered the dismissal of the criminal case against President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, turning back efforts by a judge to scrutinise the Justice Department’s extraordinary decision to drop the prosecution. The US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said in a 2-1 ruling on Wednesday that the …

US President Donald Trump says he ordered authorities to slow down the rate of coronavirus testing because it was adding to the number of COVID-19 infections being recorded. Mr Trump was speaking at a re-election rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, pressing ahead with the gathering despite it being revealed that six campaign workers who helped set it up had tested positive for …

The Arbery case triggered a national outcry after mobile phone video of the shooting was leaked on social media early in May. Thursday’s hearing followed more than a week of protests across the US over the May 25 death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, also a black American. Four officers have been charged in that case. Mr Dial …

Protesters have marched, stopped traffic and in some cases lashed out violently at law enforcement, while Louisville police have apologised for firing pepper bullets at a news crew as protests erupted in dozens of US cities following the death of unarmed African-American man George Floyd in Minnesota. Footage of Mr Floyd’s death on Monday (local time) went viral. It showed …

Yesterday in America, 1,940 people died from coronavirus. In a single day, 31,935 new infections were recorded. I personally know five people who have been told they have COVID-19. Only one of them was able to get a test and it came back inconclusive. The rest were told by their doctors “don’t bother” because there weren’t enough test kits to …

President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw US funding to the World Health Organisation, saying it “missed the call” on the devastating coronavirus pandemic. Mr Trump made the announcement at a White House press briefing on Tuesday (Washington time) as deaths and infections across the United States continued to rise. Mr Trump criticised the organisation, saying it “called it wrong” …

US President Donald Trump says he is considering sealing off New York and parts of neighbouring states in response to the worsening coronavirus crisis. “There’s a possibility that sometime today we’ll do a quarantine, short-term, two weeks on New York, probably New Jersey, certain parts of Connecticut,” Trump said on Saturday before departing the White House. He said New York …

Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks’s Toy Story co-star Tim Allen has joked that he should have made him wear Buzz Lightyear’s space suits for protection from coronavirus. Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson revealed they have contracted the virus and Allen was among the stars reacting to the news. Allen, who plays Buzz Lightyear in the animated film series opposite Hanks as Woody, tweeted …

Washington, SANA-US Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has affirmed that the Turkish regime headed by Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been supporting Daesh (ISIS) and al-Qaeda from behind the scenes for long years, and now it has been forced to show this role which it has played against the Syrian Government form years ago. In a video published on her …

US President Donald Trump has ridiculed the historic best picture Oscar win for South Korean film Parasite, telling a campaign rally he wishes for the return of Hollywood classics like 1939’s Gone with the Wind. Parasite is a dark social satire about the gap between rich and poor in modern Seoul. Earlier this month it became the first non-English-language film to …