US President Donald Trump has attacked "illegal leaks" following reports his attorney general discussed campaign-related matters with a Russian envoy. The Washington Post gave an account of meetings Attorney General Jeff Sessions held with the Russian ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak. Mr Sessions has previously denied discussing the election campaign. US authorities are investigating...

A police chief in the US state of Minnesota has resigned after one of her officers fatally shot an unarmed Australian woman. Justine Damond was killed after she called the police to report a woman screaming outside her home in a quiet suburb of Minneapolis last week. Police chief Janee Harteau had earlier said it "should not have happened". The city's mayor accepted her resignation, saying...

The family of an 11-year-old girl murdered last week in New Jersey have implored President Donald Trump to let them into the US to attend her funeral. AbbieGail Smith was allegedly stabbed in the neck by her neighbour while taking out the rubbish on 12 July. Her father, Kenroy Smith, was deported from the US to Jamaica in 2001 following a cannabis arrest. Last week Mr Trump intervened to...

Hawaii is not taking any chances following North Korea's most recent missile launch on the Fourth of July. The Aloha State is taking steps to assemble an evacuation plan for civilians on the island, in order to prepare for a potential intercontinental ballistic missile attack, The Washington Post reported. The state's Emergency Management Agency said the measure is not aiming to disrupt the...

The fatal shooting of an Australian woman by a Minneapolis police officer "should not have happened", the city's police chief has said. Justine Damond, originally from Sydney, was shot when she approached a police car after reporting a suspected rape. A lawyer for Ms Damond's family has called it "ludicrous" to suggest the two officers inside feared an ambush. Minneapolis Police Chief...

The spokesman for US President Donald Trump's personal legal team has resigned, media reports say. Mark Corallo was a spokesman for Marc Kasowitz, who is defending Mr Trump in an inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in last year's election. Reports said that Mr Corallo disagreed with the alleged strategy of Mr Trump's lawyers to discredit or limit the team directing the...

Former US football star and actor OJ Simpson has been granted parole after nine years in a Nevada prison. "Thank you!" said the 70-year-old, bowing his head as the board approved him for release. Simpson, who was acquitted for a double murder in 1995, has been serving time for armed robbery, assault with a deadly weapon and 10 other charges. He is set to walk free in October after being...

A candidate for mayor in St. Petersburg, Fla. erupted at black reparations activists, telling them to "go back to Africa" during a mayoral debate. Paul Congemi, who is running as an independent, directed his rant towards Jesse Nevel, a mayoral candidate who is chairman for the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, a group of white allies of the African People's Socialist Party that organizes "in the...

More than 3,000 firefighters are now battling the Detwiler Fire near California's Yosemite National Park, officials said. Cal Fire late Wednesday that more than 48,000 acres have burned so far and that the blaze, which started Sunday and spread quickly, remains only 7 percent contained. "Firefighters faced high temperatures along with dry and drought stressed chaparral and grass. Steep and...

Members from the Nevada Board of Parole on Thursday will meet to decide whether to set free former football star -- and onetime accused double murderer -- O.J. Simpson. Simpson has been imprisoned at the Lovelock Correctional Center for nearly nine years on convictions of armed robbery and kidnapping related to some of his football memorabilia. He was ordered to serve a term of...