Teenager Emma Raducanu has become the youngest British player to reach the quarter-finals of the US Open. The 18-year-old secured victory in straight sets over American Shelby Rogers, winning their fourth round clash 6-2 6-1. In the Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York, Raducanu beat Rogers, who is world number 43, despite being ranked 150.

Police in New York City have released footage showing officers trying to rescue a family, including a two-year-old, who was killed in floodwaters caused by Storm Ida. Officers waded through black, chest-deep waters on Wednesday as they tried to get into a basement flat in the borough of Queens, where the family became trapped. The

Four people have been shot dead, including a baby being cradled in its mother’s arms, after attacks at two separate houses in Florida which sparked a gun battle with police. The unnamed suspect, who surrendered after being injured during the shootout, was so aggressive he attempted to grab an officer’s gun while being treated in hospital,

A lawyer has been shot in the head three months after his wife and son were murdered in an as-yet unsolved attack, a friend of the family has said. Alex Murdaugh had stopped to fix a flat tyre in a rural location in Hampton County, South Carolina, when he was shot and injured on Saturday,

Facebook has apologised after an algorithm generated a prompt that asked users if they would like to “keep seeing videos about primates” on a video of black men. The video, which was shared on the platform by the Daily Mail on 27 June, featured clips of black men in altercations with white civilians and police

Storm Ida has resulted in a sizeable oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the US coastguard has confirmed. Aerial images show miles of oil in the water around two miles south of Port Fourchon, Louisiana. Coastguard spokesman Lieutenant John Edwards said the source of the spill is an undersea crude oil pipeline owned by

A Texas law banning most abortions has seen nearby states, such as New Mexico, prepare for an increase in women travelling for the procedure. The law, which the US Supreme Court allowed to stand after it came into force on Wednesday, bans abortions once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity, which is typically around six

US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order directing the FBI to declassify documents related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The order, coming a little more than a week before the 20th anniversary, is a significant moment in a years-long fight between the government and victims’ families over what classified information about the run-up

It has taken 24 hours for the floods around Manville to recede. At first glance, a place like this doesn’t look too bad, but it’s deceptive. The mud lining the roads is the only sign that, block after block, all of this community was metres under water. Physically, financially, psychologically, this extreme weather is testing

At least 64 people have died in the US after the country’s northeastern states were battered by record-breaking rainfall brought by Storm Ida. The deaths include at least four people who died from carbon monoxide poisoning in Louisiana, two dead in Mississippi after torrential rain caused a highway to collapse, and a number of people

At least 58 people have died in the US as the country’s northeastern states struggled with the remnants of Storm Ida. The deaths include at least four people who died from carbon monoxide poisoning in Louisiana, two dead in Mississippi after torrential rain caused a highway to collapse, and a number of people killed after

The remnants of Hurricane Ida have killed at least 22 people in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, with the storm bringing relentless rain to large parts of the northeastern United States. Here are a selection of photos showing the impact Ida has had since it made landfall in Louisiana on Sunday and later weakened

The death and destruction caused by Storm Ida is a reminder that “the climate crisis is here” and “we must better prepare,” US President Joe Biden has said. The flooding caused by the storm has killed at least 25 people in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, including a two-year-old boy, NBC reports. States of

At least six people have been killed after Storm Ida dumped a month’s worth of rain on parts of the US. Four of those who died were in New York City, while the other two were in New Jersey, according to NBC. A state of emergency has been declared after the remnants of a hurricane

The trial of Elizabeth Holmes, founder and former chief executive of medical technology company Theranos, has begun in California. She is pleading not guilty to perpetrating one of the biggest frauds in Silicon Valley history, “an elaborate, years-long fraud” as the US government alleges, and faces up to 20 years in prison. Theranos itself, which

An alleged member of the ISIS group dubbed “The Beatles” is set to plead guilty in a court case in the United States. Alexanda Amon Kotey has been charged with conspiring to torture and behead American and European hostages in Syria. It is not immediately clear which charges he will admit at a change of

There was a key section in the president’s speech which, in the chaos of the Afghan withdrawal, might get overlooked.  “As we turn the page on the foreign policy that has guided our nation the last two decades,” he said, “we’ve got to learn from our mistakes. “To me, there are two that are paramount.

Joe Biden has hailed the “extraordinary success” of the US evacuation in Afghanistan, saying he “was not going to extend this forever war”. The US president has been heavily criticised for his handling of the evacuation of Afghanistan, which saw more than 120,000 people successfully airlifted from Kabul airport, but left between 100 and 200

The chaos of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan was harrowing for those on the ground. For two weeks, there was a desperate scramble for the exit, desperation that turned deadly when a suicide bomber targeted some of the most vulnerable people in the world – and the military personnel trying to help them. Trying to

In the end, it was the Taliban, with their volleys of gunfire, who announced the Americans had gone – uncomfortably apt really, given they have been calling the shots for the past few weeks. For days, in Washington, the US administration had refused to say quite when their Afghanistan withdrawal would be complete. For obvious

The US has completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan after the last of its planes took off from Kabul airport. All its service members have now departed, bringing an end to a 20-year campaign that saw more than 2,400 Americans die – as well as tens of thousands of Afghans. General Kenneth F McKenzie announced the

At one point in the final days of evacuations from Afghanistan, flights were said to be taking off every twenty minutes from Kabul airport. United States officials said “core” diplomatic staff had withdrawn from the country marking the final hours of its chaotic withdrawal. A number of countries had been in a race against time

It was a day many in New Orleans had planned to spend commemorating the terrible cost of Hurricane Katrina exactly 16 years ago. Instead of those peaceful, sombre events they found themselves sitting in the dark as Hurricane Ida battered the Big Easy and knocked out power to the whole city. The power of Ida

Hurricane Ida has made landfall in Louisiana as an “extremely dangerous” category four storm. It hit on the same date Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi 16 years earlier, about 40 miles west of where category three Katrina first struck land. Arriving with a barometric pressure of 930 millibars, Ida preliminarily goes down as tied

US President Joe Biden is attending a military base as the bodies of 13 American troops killed in Thursday’s suicide bombing in Kabul return to American soil. The president and First Lady Jill Biden were due to be present at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Sunday for the “dignified transfer” of the US

One of Nicole Gee’s last social media posts was a photo of her cradling a baby amid the chaos outside Kabul’s airport. The US Marine Sergeant was among thousands of American military personnel helping citizens of her country and selected Afghans make their way to the flights that would take them to safety. And on

What happened in America on 11 September 2001 changed the course of history. The attack unfolded on New York’s skyline when two airliners flew into the World Trade Center. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in a day that became known as 9/11. Afghanistan latest news – live updates Image: George W Bush (left) and

The United States killed two “high profile” ISIS targets and wounded a third in retaliation for Thursday’s suicide bombing at Kabul airport, the Pentagon has said. Speaking at a news briefing, Major General William “Hank” Taylor confirmed the drone strike, which took place on Thursday, killed an ISIS-K planner and a facilitator. A Taliban spokesman

It was when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979 that the first wave of refugees settled in a quiet corner of San Francisco’s Bay Area. Drawn, it was said, by the green of the tree-lined streets and the mountains that surrounded them, it offered reminders of the homeland they had left behind. Now, the

Robert F. Kennedy’s killer, Sirhan Sirhan, has been granted parole after two of RFK’s sons said they support his release from prison. The New York senator and brother of President John F. Kennedy was a Democratic presidential candidate when he was gunned down on June 6, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Sirhan