Puerto Rico has been plunged into darkness on New Year’s Eve by a nearly island-wide blackout. More than 1.2 million out of almost 1.5 million customers have no electricity, said Luma Energy, the island’s main power distributor. The cause of the power cut is under investigation, and fully restoring service could take between 24-48 hours, […]
US to hold national day of mourning for Jimmy Carter
Former President Jimmy Carter’s state funeral will take place on 9 January at the Washington National Cathedral, part of a national day of mourning for the longest-lived US president. Walter Mondale, who served as Carter’s vice-president, had intended to give the eulogy for his former boss, but he died in 2021. Mondale’s son plans to […]
Police identify woman set on fire in deadly New York City attack
Police in New York City have named the woman who was set on fire and burned to death on a subway train in Brooklyn. Authorities on Tuesday identified Debrina Kawam, 61, of New Jersey as the victim of the seemingly random 22 December attack that burned her body beyond recognition. Sebastian Zapeta, 33, is accused […]
Watch: A look back at Jimmy Carter's life
Former US President Jimmy Carter, who emerged from the obscurity of a peanut farm in his native Georgia to the highest office in the country, has died aged 100. Carter served as the 39th president from 1977 to 1981 and lived longer than any other president after leaving the White House. He was defeated in […]
California police rescue man trapped inside burning trailer
On Monday, the Grover Beach Police Department in California released dramatic body camera footage of a man being rescued from inside a burning trailer. The cause of the fire was determined to be from a portable propane heater. Grover Beach officers were able to prevent the fire from spreading. The man was transported to hospital […]
'I can't go on like this': US asks what's next for healthcare
Special education teacher Robin Ginkel has spent almost two years fighting with her insurance company to try to get it to pay for back surgery that her doctors recommended after a work injury left her with a herniated disc and debilitating pain. The plan didn’t seem “ridiculous”, she said: “I’m asking to get healthcare to […]
Problems that plagued Carter have also troubled Biden
Watch: A look back at the life of former US President Jimmy Carter Forty-four years elapsed between the time Jimmy Carter left the presidency and the day he died. Four decades seems like a long time – a record for a former US president – yet many of the challenges facing America in 2024 are […]
'It was destiny': How Jimmy Carter embraced China and changed history
Getty Images Carter and Deng, seen hugging in 1987 in Beijing, had a close relationship On a bright January morning in 1979, then US president Jimmy Carter greeted a historic guest in Washington: Deng Xiaoping, the man who unlocked China’s economy. The first leader of Communist China to visit the United States, Deng had arrived […]
Billionaire HBO creator Charles Dolan dies aged 98
Billionaire Charles Dolan, a trailblazer in bringing cable television to a large part of the US who created what became HBO, has died at age 98. He was also the head of a family with an “empire” of media and sports properties that includes Madison Square Garden, the New York Knicks and Rangers teams, and […]
Model Dayle Haddon dies in carbon monoxide leak
Actress and model Dayle Haddon has died and another person has been hospitalised due to a carbon monoxide leak at a home in Pennsylvania, authorities have said. Haddon modelled for brands including Estée Lauder and L’Oreal, and appeared on the front of magazines including Sports Illustrated and Vogue Paris in the 1970s. Police said they […]