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Arsenal Set to Break Own Transfer Record with Declan Rice Signing

Arsenal is reportedly close to finalizing the signing of Declan Rice from West Ham before the team’s pre-season tour in the USA. The Gunners are hopeful of securing the deal for a club-record fee of £105m, with an initial payment of £100m and £5m in add-ons. If completed, the transfer would surpass Arsenal’s current record […]

United States President Joe Biden Announces 2024 Re-Election Bid

US President Joe Biden has announced that he will seek re-election for the presidency in 2024. Now 80 and already the oldest president in US history, Biden had long signalled he would run for another four-year term. In a video to launch his bid to retain the White House, he cast the next election as […]

Teenage Brothers Face Murder Charges For The ‘Sweet 16’ Party Shooting

Two teenage boys have been charged with murder after the shooting at a 16th birthday party in Alabama that killed four and injured 32 over the weekend. Brothers Ty Reik McCullough, 17, and Travis McCullough, 16, were arrested on Tuesday night, and are each being charged with four counts of reckless murder and that more […]

Man Charged With Shooting Teenage Boy Who Rang Wrong Doorbell

An 84-year old householder in the US state of Missouri, Andrew Lester, has been charged with shooting a teenager who rang the wrong doorbell while picking up his younger brothers. Mr Lester, who is white, allegedly shot 16-year old Ralph Yarl, who is black, once in the head and once in the arm last Thursday […]

Four People Killed In Mass Shooting At A ‘Sweet 16’ Birthday Party

At least four people have been killed in a mass shooting at a 16th birthday party in the US state of Alabama. Twenty-eight people were injured, some critically, after shots were fired at the Mahogany Masterpiece Dance Studio in the city of Dadeville on Saturday. High school senior Phil Dowdell, a star athlete, has been […]

American actor, Jamie Foxx Hospitalised After Medical Complication

American actor, Jamie Foxx has been rushed to the hospital after suffering an undisclosed medical condition. The news was made known by his daughter, Corinne Foxx on her Instagram page yesterday. She claimed her dad had suffered a ‘medical complication’ that required him to be taken to the hospital, while adding that he was now […]

 US Is Going To Hell, ‘Says Trump’

 The US is “going to hell”, Donald Trump has said in a defiant address after pleading NOT GUILTY to falsifying business records to hide damaging information ahead of the 2016 election. The former president was charged with 34 counts in a Manhattan court in New York on Tuesday. These relate to a hush money payment […]

Donald Trump Pleads Not Guilty to 34 Felony Counts

Former U.S. President, Donald Trump, and front-runner for the Republican nomination in 2024 has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. Trump pleaded not guilty when he appeared at Manhattan Criminal Courthouse on Tuesday in New York where he spent approximately two hours being processed and arraigned. […]

US 6-yr-old Who Shot Teacher Won’t Be Charged

A six-year-old boy who shot his teacher in a primary school in the US state of Virginia is unlikely to be charged. Abigail Zwerner, a 25-year-old teacher, is suing the school district after she survived being shot through her hand and upper chest following what police described as an “altercation” with the first-grader. Police acknowledged […]