Swift’s new album breaks another streaming record after already becoming the platform’s most-streamed album in a day

Industry’s sugar substitute E961 can have ‘toxic effect on health’, says study finding sweetener capable of damaging intestinal bacteria

Some public school teachers could gain new powers to bring concealed guns into Tennessee schools

Defense attorneys say Richard Allen was in ‘mental distress’ when he claimed to have killed Abby Williams and Libby German

Officers descended on an area of Long Island’s Manorville as part of the ongoing investigation into the deaths of four women

Former deputy Andrew Buen has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, misconduct and reckless endangerment in the June 2022 killing of motorist Christian Glass, 22, who was shot dead in his vehicle after calling 911 for help

Biden-Harris campaign plans to use ‘every tool we have to reach young voters’

The former president faces felony charges based on misdemeanour crimes. The DA’s office is beginning to show what elevates the hush money scheme to an election interference plot

State’s 1864 abortion ban outlawed nearly all forms of abortion and criminalised those who help a woman obtain one

Protests relating to the Israel-Hamas war have been sprouting up at campuses across the country

A price floor means ex-president gets bonus even though Trump Media & Technology Group’s stock value has plummeted

Some customers of the online fashion site, which owed more than £210m when it collapsed in March, are also unable to get refunds

Study confirms Philip Morris International, Danone, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola are worst offenders

Ryanair urges European Commission to protect overflights and keep EU skies open

The two deputies had another chance to trade blows but it was a one-sided contest, as Angela Rayner went in for the kill

The fortysomething turned her wildest fantasy – about running off with a boyband member for hot sex in fabulous locations – into a bestseller. As it hits the screen, Lee talks about writing steamy scenes in Starbucks – and her terror o ...

Staff at private mental health hospital near Weston-super-Mare missed chances to prevent Lily Lucas’s death, jury finds

Two reservists brigades mobilised for Gaza missions while rows of tents put up in Khan Younis

Suspects being questioned by National Crime Agency in Kent on suspicion of immigration offences

Minute-by-minute report: Join John Brewin for a hotly-anticipated Merseyside derby at both ends of the table