United States

Last night under the cover of darkness, most of the last remaining US and Nato forces left Bagram airbase in Afghanistan.

It’s feared that hundreds of sudden deaths in Canada may have been caused by the record heatwave there, which has seen temperatures soaring to unprecedented highs.

We spoke to leading Democrat Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and began by asking for her reaction to our ExxonMobil revelations.

We were joined from Massachusetts by Dr Geoffrey Supran, the director of climate accountability at Harvard University and the author of a paper examining the public and private communications from ExxonMobil over the span of 40 years.

The actor and comedian Bill Cosby is to be released from prison.

Britney Spears says she was left traumatised and humiliated for 13 years by an “abusive” arrangement which gave her father control over her career, estate and most of her personal life.

An extensive rescue operation is underway in Surfside, near Miami Beach in Florida, after a 12 storey block of flats collapsed, leaving at least one person dead.

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.