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This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Lipika Pelham BBC News The landmark Francis Scott Key Bridge in the US city of Baltimore has collapsed after a cargo ship collided with it. Several vehicles that were crossing the bridge, which is more than
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A bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, has collapsed into the Patapsco River after being struck by a container ship, rescue services say. Chief Kevin Cartwright, director of communications for the Baltimore City Fire Department, confirmed to the BBC that the bridge had been struck by “a large vessel” causing it to collapse into the river. He
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Tyler Adams and Giovanni Reyna scored as the United States beat Mexico to win the Concacaf Nations League. The game in Arlington, Texas, was paused three times because of homophobic chanting from fans. Concacaf, the governing body for football in North and Central America and the Carribbean, condemned the chanting and said a “significant number”
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AFP via Getty Images By James Gregory BBC News The US Senate has agreed a $1.2tn spending package that will fund the US government through September. Legislators narrowly averted a partial shutdown of the government with minutes to go before a midnight deadline. While votes on a series of amendments are expected to continue for
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Getty Images By Anthony Zurcher North America correspondent Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has launched a bid to oust Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, the latest move in a long-running internal party battle. As the House of Representatives was voting to approve a $1.2tn (£950bn) spending package that would avert a partial government shutdown
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Getty Images/St Louis Post-Dispatch By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent @BBCAmos How lucky can the residents of Carbondale, Illinois, be? Celestial mechanics says any one spot on the Earth’s surface should experience a total solar eclipse only once every 375 years, on average. The 30,000 residents of the Midwestern city will probably chuckle at that statistic
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Getty Images By Natalie Sherman Business reporter, New York Donald Trump appears to be scrambling for funds to pay a $464m (£365m) fraud fine. Could the stock market ride to his rescue? Trump Media, which runs the social media platform Truth Social, is poised to become a publicly listed company, with shareholders of Digital World
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Getty Images By Max Matza BBC News, Seattle Idaho police have captured two white supremacist gang members who have been linked to two homicides since a prison break on Wednesday. Fugitive inmate Skylar Meade, 31, and alleged accomplice Nicholas Umphenour were caught in the city of Twin Falls. Three officers were injured when Umphenour, 28,
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Getty Images By Zoe Kleinman Technology Editor To understand how much the US’s new lawsuit strikes at the heart of the identity Apple has forged for itself, let’s first consider the firm’s fanbase. Apple has a unique position as a tech brand, and is regarded with enormous affection by those who like it. I’ve sat
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Getty Images By Mariko Oi Business reporter Baseball sensation Shohei Ohtani’s long-time interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, has been fired by the Los Angeles Dodgers after allegations of theft connected to illegal gambling. According to ESPN, at least $4.5m (£3.5m) was transferred from Ohtani’s bank account to a bookmaker. Mr Ohtani is not accused of wrongdoing. Mr
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Getty Images By Max Matza BBC News President Joe Biden has announced the strictest regulation on vehicle exhaust emissions ever enacted in the US in a bid to accelerate the auto-industry’s shift to electric cars. It includes a goal for 56% of all new vehicles sold to be electric by 2032 – a huge increase
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Getty Images By Bernd Debusmann & Max Matza & Mattea Bubalo BBC New A federal appeals court has frozen Texas’s controversial immigration law, one of the toughest laws of its kind enacted by a US state in modern times. The decision came just hours after the Supreme Court allowed the measure, SB4, to take effect
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