U.S. News

• Barack Obama makes U.S. Marine break military rules by holding an umbrella while in uniform

  Hosting Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the White House’s Rose Garden yesterday, President Barack Obama requested a standing Marine to open an umbrella and protect his…

• Michelle Knight was Ariel Castro's punching bag

  A family friend of one of the Cleveland victims has revealed that Michelle Knight, the first of three women to be kidnapped off the street who suffered more than a decade of…

• Arne Svenson: TriBeCa residents threaten to sue artist for secretly photographed them in their own apartments

  Residents at a luxury TriBeCa apartment block in Lower Manhattan are very furious after discovering that artist Arne Svenson, who is their neighbor at a nearby building, has…

• Ramsey burger: Hodges restaurant names Big Mac-inspired burger after Cleveland hero Charles Ramsey

  Hodges restaurant in downtown Cleveland is helping to make Charles Ramsey - the man who famously helped rescue kidnapping victim Amanda Berry - even more of a household…

• Officer Barbara Johnson describes moment she rescued Michelle Knight from Cleveland horror house

  Officer Barbara Johnson has described the moment she rescued Michelle Knight in the Cleveland house of horrors, 11 years after the 32-year-old was abducted. Barbara Johnson…

• Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote confession note inside David Henneberry's boat

  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev chose to write a note confessing his connection to the Boston Marathon bombings explaining why he and his brother Tamerlan made the two pressure cooker…