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Two pilots from Ukraine have arrived at a military base in Arizona, officials told the broadcaster The US has invited Ukrainian pilots to a military base in Tucson, Arizona to establish how long it’ll take to train them to fly Western fighter jets, including F-16s, unnamed officials told NBC. Two …

The audit is focused on Maricopa County, Arizona’s largest, where then-Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden won by more than 2 percentage points in the November 2020 election, slammed by former President Donald Trump as “the most corrupt” vote in US history. Ex-US President Donald Trump has lashed out at Arizona …

U.S. coronavirus deaths rose by almost 25,000 in July and cases doubled in at least 18 states during the month, according to a Reuters tally, dealing a crushing blow to hopes of quickly reopening the economy. The United States has recorded nearly 1.8 million new cases in July out of …

The United States saw more than 70,000 new coronavirus cases for a second straight day on Friday, with 71,600 new cases reported across the country. Thursday saw an all-time daily high of 77,300 new confirmed cases, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University. The U.S. total confirmed case count …

US President Donald Trump continues to trail Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in a slew of key battleground states, including Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Florida—which voted for former President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 then flipped red in 2016. The current averages of state-level polls compiled by FiveThirtyEight show …

Phillip Blanks says the child’s mother was the “real hero”, after making the “ultimate sacrifice” to save her son’s life. Video footage shows the moment a toddler was caught by a former American football player after being thrown out of a burning building by his mother in Phoenix, Arizona. The …

As Florida continues to battle one of the worst surges of coronavirus cases in the US, official numbers released on Tuesday show that the state’s hospitals are struggling to cope with the influx of Covid-19 patients. The data, which comes from the state health authority, show that more than four …

US Vice President Mike Pence has been forced to cancel re-election campaign events as the coronavirus surged in a number of battleground states. The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country rose to more than 2.5 million on Saturday, according to a tally kept by John Hopkins University. …

With infection numbers rising in more than 30 states, the US set a daily record for new coronavirus cases. And federal health officials warned that the number of people who’ve been infected is vastly undercounted. Almost 40,000 coronavirus cases were reported Thursday, surpassing a previous one-day high on April 24, …

Almost an entire city block was consumed by flames as dozens of fire crews responded to a blaze at a four-story apartment complex in Phoenix. Police reported gunfire during the inferno and at least one person has been arrested. The building was reportedly almost 40 percent complete at the time …

At least three people have been injured at an outdoor shopping mall in Arizona after an armed man opened fire. Authorities said that one man was in custody, whilst one person was in a critical condition at a hospital. Two others had non-life threatening injuries, Glendale police information officer Tiffany …

US Federal authorities say they have arrested a Phoenix-area man suspected of killing two men while acting as a leader of al-Qaida in Iraq. The Department of Justice said that 42-year-old Ali Yousif Ahmed Al-Nouri appeared before a magistrate judge on Friday for proceedings to extradite him to Iraq. The …

A US military jet unexpectedly released a rocket during what was supposed to be a routine training flight near Tucson, Arizona, according to military officials quick to add that the white phosphorus munition hit a deserted area.​ An A-10C Thunderbolt II aircraft flying a training mission between Tucson and Phoenix …

An Arizona man came back home from a town council meeting an internet sensation, after a video of his hysterical laughter in reaction to a crowd of angry Trump supporters went viral online. Thousands shared the video or animated images of the man with the hashtag #GreenShirtGuy, who called him …

Remains of some of the oldest ever frogs have been recovered by sifting through fragments of rock from Arizona. The creatures, which shared the prehistoric landscape with dinosaurs, were identified based on tiny shards of hip bone smaller than a fingernail. Belonging to an as-yet-unnamed species that lived around 216 …