This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News More than 100 students have been arrested after police cleared a camp of pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University in New York. The university’s president said that the “extraordinary step” came after
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The BBC has been speaking to two former prosecutors about the Trump case, with wildly different interpretations. Ambrosio Rodriguez, who isn’t a Trump fan, thinks the former president is being prosecuted unfairly because of who he is. Rodriguez says the case relies on old allegations, and says the trial is “a waste of time, and
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Anthony Zurcher North America correspondent The US Senate has voted to kill impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Majorkas, sparing him a trial in the chamber. It was the first time in almost 150 years,
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Kayla Epstein, Madeline Halpert & Nada Tawfik BBC News, reporting from court A 40-year-old New Yorker did not expect to report to jury duty this week and come face to face with Donald Trump. Yet he
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Gary O’Donoghue Washington correspondent, BBC News Iran’s brazen attack directly targeting Israel on Saturday means that the one thing President Biden most feared and desperately sought to avert in the wake of the 7 October Hamas
Brent Stirton By Nadine Yousif BBC News The US Supreme Court will hear a case that could undo felony charges for those who stormed the Capitol in 2021. It zeros-in on whether a 2002 federal law created to prevent the destruction of evidence could apply to individuals involved in the 6 January riots. More than
Monday marked the start of Donald Trump’s hush-money trial in New York City. The former US president is accused of trying to cover up a $130,000 payment to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election. It is the first time a former or current US president has faced a criminal trial. The BBC’s
Getty Images By Madeline Halpert BBC News, New York Donald Trump will set foot in a New York courthouse on Monday and become the first former US president to stand trial in a criminal case. He is accused of falsifying his business records to disguise a hush-money payment made to Stormy Daniels, a former adult
Getty Images By Vicky Wong BBC News A dozen US news outlets have called on the presumptive US presidential nominees to commit to taking part in TV debates ahead of November’s election. The statement did not name Joe Biden or Donald Trump, but said it was never too early for candidates to publicly declare they
POTUS/X By Nadine Yousif BBC News US President Joe Biden has praised American forces who he said “helped Israel take down nearly all” drones and missiles launched by Iran on Sunday. In a statement, he said the US moved aircraft and destroyers to the region prior to the unprecedented attack. “I condemn these attacks in
A multidisciplinary team has a two-year $2 million grant to help Nasa study the Moon’s surface. The LASSIE (Legged Autonomous Surface Science in Analog Environments) Project is formed by professionals from Nasa, Texas A&M University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Oregon State University, Temple University, and the University of Pennsylvania. This video has been optimised for
Getty Images By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, Washington An ex-career diplomat who once served as US ambassador to Bolivia has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for working as an agent for Cuba. Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, secretly passed information to the Cuban government for more than 40 years, according to prosecutors. In
Getty Images By Anthony Zurcher in Washington and Nadine Yousif BBC News Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said he would push for legislation that would require voters to prove they are US citizens after meeting Donald Trump on Friday. It was their first public meeting since Mr Johnson became speaker in November. It
Reuters By Sofia Ferreira Santos BBC News US President Joe Biden has announced that he is cancelling $7.4bn (£5.9bn) in student debt for more than 277,000 people. This comes days after he announced a proposal to help millions of Americans pay off student loans. The “Plan B” aims to fulfil a campaign promise ahead of
Reuters By Christy Cooney BBC News The United States has restricted travel for its employees in Israel amid fears of an attack by Iran. The US embassy said staff had been told not to travel outside the greater Jerusalem, Tel Aviv or Be’er Sheva areas “out of an abundance of caution”. Iran has vowed to
Getty Images OJ Simpson, the former American footballer who was controversially cleared of double murder, has died aged 76, his family says. Orenthal James Simpson rose to fame as a college footballer before playing in the NFL. In 1995, he was acquitted of the murder of his former wife Nicole Brown and a friend in