Amber Heard's lawyer says she was "demonised" by Johnny Depp's legal team, and the barrage of hostile social media posts influenced the defamation trial's jury.
A jury has finished a second day of deliberations on the defamation claims of Johnny Depp and ex-wife Amber Heard over their volatile and unhappy marriage.
The United States should make it easier to confine "deranged" people and eliminate gun-free school zones after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers this week at a Texas school, former president Donald Trump says.
Americans have been urged to stand up to the gun lobby, as a visibly shaken Joe Biden addressed the nation after a gunman killed 21 at a Texas primary school.
A mass shooting at a primary school in the US state of Texas has left at least 18 children and three adults dead, with the teenage suspect also losing his life.
A white teenager who killed 10 people in a racist attack at a western New York grocery store in a black neighbourhood had been taken into custody last year and given a mental health evaluation after making a threat at his high school, authorities say.
An 18-year-old gunman has fatally shot 10 people and wounded three others at a grocery store in a black neighbourhood of Buffalo, New York, before surrendering.
Six Indian citizens who tried to enter the United States illegally and did not know how to swim have been rescued from a sinking boat in northern New York, federal court documents state.
The US Senate has confirmed Caroline Kennedy, a former ambassador to Japan and daughter of late president John F Kennedy, as US ambassador to Australia, an important ally to the US.
A man has been charged after allegedly storming the stage with a replica handgun and tackling US comic Dave Chappelle during a live show in Los Angeles.
Protesters on both sides of the US abortion debate have faced off with chants, prayers and signs outside the Supreme Court, hours after the leak of a draft opinion that would overturn the court's landmark 1973 Roe v Wade decision.
The stars have come out for the fashion world's iconic Met Gala, which has returned to its traditional early-May slot after two years of pandemic disruption.
A prominent US senator has pledged a vigorous review into the origins of the coronavirus if republicans retake the Senate and he lands a committee chairmanship.
