US election 2016: Trump berates Alicia Machado on Twitter
Donald Trump attacks a former beauty pageant winner who criticised him for alleged sexist and misogynistic remarks as “disgusting” in a Twitter outburst. BBC News – US & Canada
Donald Trump attacks a former beauty pageant winner who criticised him for alleged sexist and misogynistic remarks as “disgusting” in a Twitter outburst. BBC News – US & Canada
A woman is killed and dozens of other people are injured, some of them critically, as a commuter train crashes at a railway station in New Jersey. BBC News – US & Canada
The first US presidential debate is watched by 84 million people, breaking a record set by Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan in 1980. BBC News – US & Canada
Violent crime in the US increased last year, according to the FBI, with murders, rapes and assaults all edging up after decreasing for decades. BBC News – US & Canada
Jose Fernandez, a pitcher for the Miami Marlins baseball team, dies along with two others in a boat crash aged 24. BBC News – US & Canada
Video emerges of the moment North Carolina police shot a black man, captured by his wife, who is heard pleading: “Don’t shoot him!” BBC News – US & Canada