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Breakfast in a Floridian diner is never for the faint-hearted. There’s the biscuits and gravy, the grits, the oversized breakfast tacos, the waffles, the pancakes, the corned beef hash and, of course, the all-American drip coffee. If you survive all that, and if you nudge the locals a little, then the passionate yet divisive politics

A school in Florida has banned the poem read at Joe Biden’s inauguration after a single complaint. The unnamed parent said Amanda Gorman’s poem The Hill We Climb was “not educational” and contained “indirectly (sic) hate messages”, adding that it could “cause confusion and indoctrinate students”. Gorman, 25, said on Instagram that she was “gutted”

A “kind and amazing” father-of-two has been struck and killed by a car after he got out of his own vehicle to help a family of ducks cross a busy intersection in California. Casey Rivara, 41, was driving his children home after their swimming practice when they noticed a duck and her ducklings struggling to

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his partner Lauren Sanchez are engaged, according to reports. Ms Sanchez, a 53-year-old former broadcaster, was pictured with billionaire Bezos on his $500m superyacht off the coast of Cannes on Monday. Last week the couple were spotted sailing around the Spanish island of Mallorca. It was reported that Bezos had

A man accused of stabbing to death four university students in their beds in Idaho last year has refused to enter a plea after appearing in court. Criminology student Bryan Kohberger, 28, appeared at Latah County courtroom on Monday. District Judge John Judge entered a not-guilty plea on his behalf. Last week, a grand jury

SpaceX’s second private flight has launched passengers, including Saudi Arabia’s first female astronaut, to the International Space Station. The SpaceX Falcon rocket launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre on Sunday night. The crew will be led by a retired NASA astronaut who now works for the company, which arranged the 10-day trip. It is the

A woman has been arrested four years after a newborn baby was found abandoned in a plastic bag. Karima Jiwani, 40, faces a number of charges in the US state of Georgia, including criminal attempt to commit murder, aggravated assault, reckless abandonment and cruelty to children in the first degree, according to the Forsyth County

US basketball star Brittney Griner has returned to the court for her first professional league game since her Russian prison ordeal. The 32-year-old had not played alongside her Phoenix Mercury team mates in a match since 2021. The two-time Olympic gold medallist was released from a Russian jail in a high-profile prisoner exchange with the

The US airman accused of leaking classified files will remain in jail until his trial, a judge has ruled. Jack Teixeira is accused of leaking scores of documents, including sensitive information on America’s allies and operations abroad, on to the social media site Discord. The 21-year-old has been held behind bars since his arrest on

The US and its allies plan to provide Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets, a White House official has said. The move comes after US President Joe Biden previously refused requests from Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the aircraft. The timing for when Ukraine will receive the jets – and which countries will provide them –

The moment a US police officer points a gun at a suspect while kneeling on the bonnet of his moving car – before clinging to the roof of the vehicle as the motorist drives away at speed – has been revealed in a newly released video. An officer had been seen approaching the car before

Harry and Meghan have demanded an agency hand over photos and videos taken by paparazzi during a “chase” in New York earlier this week – but it has refused. Lawyers representing the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have sent a letter to the Backgrid agency – but in response, the company reportedly told Harry that

Montana has become the first state in the US to ban Chinese-owned popular video-sharing platform TikTok from personal devices. The state’s Republican governor Greg Gianforte signed legislation prohibiting mobile application stores from offering the app. The legislation makes it illegal for app stores to offer TikTok, but does not prevent those who already have the

The court of public opinion on Harry and Meghan is unmoved. The book, the Netflix series and the numerous TV interviews have cemented people’s views.  There are those who have sympathy for a “hounded” couple. And those who think they are a pair of hypocrites – craving the quiet life but complaining when they put

A high school student has been suspended for three days after she recorded her teacher using a racial slur in class. The Missouri student decided to record the incident on her phone on 9 May during her geometry class at Glendale High School in Springfield, US. According to NBC News, the teacher allegedly used the

A girl whose disappearance was featured on Netflix’s “Unsolved Mysteries” was found alive in North Carolina last week, six years after she was allegedly abducted by her mother. Kayla Unbehaun, who was born in Illinois, was nine years old when she went missing in 2017 while in the care of her mother, Heather Unbehaun. In

Legendary US disco group the Village People have sent Donald Trump a legal letter after a video emerged of him dancing to one of their hit songs. The footage shows the former president enjoying a live tribute performance of Macho Man while at a poolside dinner party at Mar-a-Lago. The 76-year-old, who wants to return

A man with a metal baseball bat has attacked two employees at a politician’s office in the US. Democratic congressman Gerry Connolly said the man walked into his northern Virginia office on Monday morning, asked for him, and then struck two female workers with the bat. One of the victims, an intern on her first

The ‘Godfather of poker’, Doyle Brunson has died at the age of 89. The legendary figure of the game died on Sunday in Las Vegas, his family announced, via his agent on Twitter. Their statement said: “It is with a heavy heart we announce the passing of our father, Doyle Brunson. “He was a beloved

A city named Kyle is calling on namesakes from around the world to help it break a record… for the largest gathering of Kyles. The Texas city is hoping to bring together thousands of people with the first name Kyle in order to clinch the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people with