Tens of thousands of dockworkers have gone on strike indefinitely at ports across much of the US, threatening significant trade and economic disruption ahead of the presidential election and the busy holiday shopping season.
Members of the (...)
The leader of the US House of Representatives was heckled in a tense visit to Columbia University as protests against the war in Gaza continue to spread across US campuses.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said Columbia officials had lost (...)
The Dali was a 'clearly unseaworthy' ship with 'an incompetent crew', the city of Baltimore argued in a lawsuit filed Monday
Baltimore has sued the operators of the container ship that hit and destroyed one of the US city's main bridges last month, (...)
The FBI has opened a criminal investigation into the Baltimore bridge collapse, sources familiar with the matter told the BBC's US partner CBS.
The investigation will examine the circumstances leading up to the incident, in which six people were (...)
US House Speaker Mike Johnson is facing down yet another pivotal week of his speakership as he confronts both the threat of an ouster and mounting pressure to decide whether he will finally move ahead on aid to Ukraine, which he's been pledging to (...)
A temporary alternative route for ships is to be opened in the US city of Baltimore following the collapse of a major bridge, officials have announced.
Six people died after the Dali cargo ship struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge last Tuesday, (...)
The largest crane on the eastern US seaboard has arrived in Baltimore as part of a massive clean-up effort after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse.
Shipments in and out of one of the country's busiest ports are suspended while the wreckage hangs (...)
Maryland's governor has provided early details of his plan to clean up wreckage after a cargo ship hit a major bridge Baltimore, killing six.
To help, the Biden administration has approved $60m (£47m) in emergency funds that Maryland had (...)
The bodies of two people have been recovered from a red pickup truck, which was under water where the Baltimore bridge collapsed.
Eight construction workers were on the bridge when a ship struck it, plunging them into the waters below.
Two of the (...)
A deadly bridge collapse in Baltimore. A bridge in southern China sliced in half. Parts of a bridge cutting through the hull of a massive ship in Argentina.
These events all happened within the first three months of this year — and all after (...)
By the time the crew of the Dali, a massive 948ft (289m) container ship, realized what was happening, it was already far too late.
The vessel — at the very start of a 27-day journey from the port of Baltimore to Sri Lanka — completely lost power (...)
Fears have been raised of significant disruption to global supply chains after a container ship crashed into a bridge in the US city of Baltimore.
The ship, named the Dali, hit a support column of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the early hours of (...)
A major bridge in Baltimore snapped and collapsed after a container ship rammed into it early Tuesday, sending several vehicles plummeting into the river below.
The vessel appears to have hit one of the supports of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, (...)
Two people were killed and five others were wounded in a shooting in Washington, DC, early Sunday morning, police said.
The shooting was reported around 3 a.m. near the intersection of 7th and P Street Northwest, near the Kennedy Recreation Center, (...)
Andre Braugher, the star of Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Homicide: Life on the Street has died aged 61 following a brief illness.
Braugher often portrayed a police officer during his career, performing both in dramatic and comedic roles.
He won an Emmy in (...)
Five people were shot at Morgan State University in Baltimore Tuesday night and police have yet to locate a suspect, officials said as the investigation continues into the shooting that sent students running and sheltering in place.
Four of the (...)
Four people were shot dead in the city of Philadelphia late on Monday, US police have said.
They said another two -- children aged two and 13 -- were injured in the attack in the city's south-western Kingsessing area. All the victims are male.
The (...)
Five people have been killed and two children wounded after a man wearing a bullet-proof vest opened fire in the US city of Philadelphia.
The suspected attacker, a 40-year-old man who is now in custody, was carrying an AR-15-style rifle, a handgun, (...)
Two people are dead and 28 people were injured in a mass shooting at a Baltimore block party, officials said. Nine people were transported to area hospitals and three of the injured are in critical condition.
Police received multiple calls after (...)
Queen Elizabeth II faced a potential assassination threat during a 1983 visit to the US, newly released FBI documents show.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released a cache of files relating to the late Queen's travels to the US, following (...)
Five members of the far-right Proud Boys, including former leader Enrique Tarrio, face decades in prison after being found guilty for their role in the January 6 US Capitol riot.
Four were convicted of seditious conspiracy, and all five were found (...)
A man has pleaded guilty in court to distributing the fentanyl-laced heroin that resulted in the death of The Wire's Michael K Williams in 2021.
Irvin Cartagena, also known as Green Eyes, sold the drug "in broad daylight in New York City, feeding (...)
For East Palestine residents John and Lisa Hamner life as they knew it came to a screeching, flaming halt at 8:55 p.m. on Feb. 3.
It was that day that a toxin-laden train derailed just meters from their successful garbage truck business, which they (...)
Two people, including the founder of a neo-Nazi group, have been arrested after allegedly plotting to shut down power to the Baltimore area.
Brandon Russell, 27, and Sarah Clendaniel, 34, were charged with conspiracy to damage an energy (...)
Protesters once again took to the streets over the weekend to decry police brutality after the release of video depicting the violent Memphis police beating of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols.
Nichols could be heard yelling for his mother in the video of (...)
