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Texas: Teen jailed 35 years for fatal stabbing at school athletics event

The stabbing happened in April 2025 during a secondary school athletics event in the Dallas area....

UK MP sues Elon Musk’s xAI over fake bikini images

Jess Asato, the MP for Lowestoft in Suffolk, said the legal action was filed at the High Court on We...

Biden sues US government to block release of ghostwriter interviews

The interviews were obtained by Special Counsel Robert Hur during an investigation into Mr Biden’s h...

Man jailed over theft of hard drives with unreleased Beyoncé music

Kelvin Evans, 41, admitted breaking into a Jeep Wagoneer rented by members of Beyoncé’s tour team in...

Suspect arrested after gunfire disrupts White House correspondents’ dinner

Allen, who is from Torrance, California, has been described in US media reports as a teacher and vid...

US soldier accused of using secret Maduro raid intel to win $400,000 bet

The accused, Gannon Ken Van Dyke, is an active-duty Army soldier based at Fort Bragg in North Caroli...

Trump loses defamation case against Wall Street Journal

Trump had brought the case in a Florida court last summer, seeking at least $10 billion in damages f...

US court uphold extradition of former MASLOC boss to Ghana

The ruling means the United States court has accepted Ghana’s request at the judicial stage and foun...

Los Angeles 'Ketamine Queen' jailed 15 years over Matthew Perry overdose death

Sangha, often referred to by prosecutors as the “Ketamine Queen”, had admitted a series of drug offe...

Woman accused of opening fire at Rihanna’s home denies attempted murder charge

Ivanna Lisette Ortiz entered a not guilty plea in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Wednesday thr...

California jury orders Bill Cosby to pay $19.25m in assault case

The woman, Donna Motsinger, told the court that Cosby picked her up in a limousine, gave her wine an...

Ghana tables UN resolution on slave trade reparations

The effort is being advanced by Foreign Affairs Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa and is tied to Pres...

Nicki Minaj sues Nigerian influencer over cyberbullying

Reports say the case centres on allegations of cyberbullying and copyright infringement, although pu...

Ghanaian pleads guilty in US over $100m online fraud

Derrick Van Yeboah, also known as Van, entered his guilty plea in Manhattan on Thursday before Distr...

Vybz Kartel wins $6m lawsuit over US concert

The ruling, delivered by Justice Brendan Lantry in the New York Supreme Court, brings the case to a ...

Man who tried to kill Trump on Florida golf course gets life sentence

In sentencing remarks, US District Judge Aileen Cannon said the seriousness and premeditation behind...

Trump threatens lawsuit after Trevor Noah Grammys joke about Jeffrey Epstein

Noah, who hosted the ceremony in Los Angeles on 1 February 2026, made a quip that referenced Mr Trum...

Ken Ofori-Atta kept in ICE as US judge demands extradition proof

The hearing was held in private at the request of his legal team, with the court instructing non-par...

Ex-NPP parliamentary candidate held in Pennsylvania over alleged wife stabbing

The Lower Paxton Township Bureau of Police said officers were called to a home on Mayfair Drive, nea...

Why Ken Ken Ofori-Atta’s US Immigration court hearing cannot be witnessed by the public

The restriction was imposed shortly after the case was called on Tuesday, 20 January 2026, at the An...

New York Mayor names Afua Atta-Mensah as Chief Equity Officer

City Hall says she will lead the administration’s effort to embed racial equity across municipal age...

Ghanaians can still apply for US tourist, business visas, ambassador says

In a post on Thursday, 15 January 2026, Mr Smith said B1/B2 visas remain available, stressing that t...

Minnesota sues Trump over ‘federal invasion’ by immigration agents

In a lawsuit filed in federal court, Attorney General Keith Ellison says the sustained presence of I...

Ken Ofori-Atta held by US immigration as lawyers move to regularise stay

In a statement, his team said Mr Ofori-Atta is “fully cooperating” with US authorities while discuss...

Ghana condemns US ‘invasion’ of Venezuela and seizure of Maduro

In a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday, 4 January 2026, the government s...