The surprisingly strong growth ‘reflected increases in consumer spending, exports and government spending’, according to officials. Key US politics stories from Tuesday 23 December ...

State department accuses group of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints through regulation of disinformation ...

Pontiff calls for ‘day of peace’ on Christmas Day after huge Russian attack in Ukraine kills three and cuts power to several regions. What we know on day 1,400 ...

This time of year is stressful enough – but at least we don’t have to deal with seasonal depression on top of it all ...

Manchester City are in pole position to sign Antoine Semenyo after Chelsea cooled their interest in the Bournemouth winger ...

Norwegian biathlete Sivert Guttorm Bakken has been found dead in his hotel room in Lavaze, Italy ...

Files also include details about Epstein’s relationship with Larry Summers and apparently fake letter to Larry Nassar ...

Top Democrat Chuck Schumer says justice department should release more information on ‘at least ten Jeffrey Epstein co-conspirators’ ...

Epstein files reveal messages between his accomplice and a man who appears to be Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor ...

He escaped violence and chaos in Sri Lanka only to get trapped in a labyrinthine immigration system, never to see his wife and children again ...

Known as Tea Tyme, Tynesha McCarty Wroten arrested over 3 November death of Darren Lucas in Zion, Illinois ...

A Drag Queen Christmas, featuring artists from RuPaul’s Drag Race, will stop in Pensacola despite the state attorney general’s efforts to stop it ...