Exclusive: Former barrister who helped legally establish that secondhand smoke causes lung cancer argues states could seek up to $50bn in compensation ...

Court hears former police officer agrees he was trying to destroy evidence that might incriminate him ...

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Once thought to have been looted by Scottish tribes, the gilded limb is the centrepiece of a new exhibition on Roman Scotland in Edinburgh ...

Inspectors find some officers acted on potential matches from retrospective searches without making enough checks ...

Members of Congress seek to ‘bring sanity’ to system but decline to give details on plans to reform or abolish agency ...

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Group attending Veterans Day ceremony sharply reminded by sentinel to maintain ‘silence and respect’ at sacred site ...

Democrat chatted up people at hair salons, colleges and at Trump rallies to become Mississippi’s first Black senator since Reconstruction ...

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Colom takes victory by razor-thin margin in state that hasn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1982 ...