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A heatwave described as “apocalyptic” has hit the south-western states of America, pushing people and wildlife in the region to their limits.

100 years ago, Tulsa saw a prosperous Black neighbourhood burned to the ground. In the aftermath, there was silence.

A “frank and candid discussion” was how Vladimir Putin described today’s summit talks in Geneva with President Biden, claiming there had been no hostility between the two leaders.

Leon Panetta was at the heart of US government for years, serving as CIA director and secretary of defense under President Obama, and he spoke to us from California.

The era of Trump’s America first is over, but is international diplomacy any different now Joe Biden is in the White House?

We spoke to Ben Rhodes from Los Angeles.

Meeting ahead of the G7 summit in Cornwall, Boris Johnson joked with Joe Biden saying he wouldn’t disagree with anything the president says.

Facebook has suspended Donald Trump’s account until at least January 2023, after ruling that his actions in the wake of the riot at the US Capitol constituted “a severe violation” of their rules.

President Biden has suspended oil and gas drilling leases in Alaska’s Arctic wildlife refuge, reversing a flagship Trump policy, while an environmental review is carried out.

US President Joe Biden has travelled to the city today to commemorate the deadly attack perpetrated by white residents in a black neighbourhood.

A hedge fund with a tiny stake in the massive oil giant that is ExxonMobil has pulled off a boardroom coup by persuading Exxon shareholders to vote to put two new directors on the board.

The final moments of George Floyd’s life were brutal, killed by a police officer as he pleaded for his life, calling out “I can’t breathe”. His murder exactly a year ago today shocked the world and sparked a global uprising of people demanding racial justice. Those calls grew into deafening cries for equal rights from…

The horror of this month’s bomb attack on a girls’ school in Kabul is still being felt across Afghanistan.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared he’s determined to press ahead with military operations in Gaza “until its aim is met”, hours after President Joe Biden said he expected a “significant de-escalation” in the conflict.

We spoke to Khaled Elgindy, an author on Palestinian-Israeli Affairs, who has participated in previous attempts at negotiations.