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Recent cold snap is set to become deteriorate as a freezing meteorological "bomb cyclone" is predicted to affect East Coast.

Internet users left stunned after Donald Trump takes credit on Twitter for declining airline passenger fatalities.

The US Department of Defense has issued denials that it was on the hunt for UFOs after details of a top secret programme emerged.

NYU student's research reveals how Donald Trump attacked the media nearly one thousand times on Twitter.

Tennessee-based MoonPie has hit back at customers who insulted their products - with some hilarious results.

There were some very high-profile dismissals from Trump's White House in 2017 - can you name them all?

A couple from Dubuque, Iowa, appealed to their Facebook followers to help them reunite with their adopted son. Just 24 hours later they were speaking with him over the phone.

The controversial comedian passed away on this day in 2005. We look at some of his funniest quotes that still have people laughing.

Some have questioned if events in the viral post actually happened - but black Americans insist that this is an example of racism they face on a daily basis.

The US Supreme Court ruled that the ban on seven countries can come into effect even as legal challenges continue through lower courts

The 44th President of the United States did not mention his successor at a forum in India, but did make some veiled suggestions.

US troops to be sent to warzones with freeze-dried blood plasma to prevent them from bleeding to death on battlefield.

The deputy leader of far-right group Britain First, Jayda Fransen, has just had three of her anti-Muslim videos retweeted by President Donald Trump. But who is she?

UK-based anti-racism group Hope Not Hate has revealed this blogger is the internet's biggest peddler of anti-Muslim rhetoric.

A US man has applauded the driver of a car that struck his wife, saying if it wasn't for their quick actions on the scene his partner would probably be dead.

The organisation says forcing young girls to hug relatives will give them the wrong ideas about consent.

A pizzeria in Louisville, Kentucky says it will allow its delivery drivers to carry weapons to make them feel safer.

Police in Utah are on the lookout for a man who was stabbed after he attempted to grope a female jogger.

A couple from Florida went to extraordinary lengths to get a insurance payout from the owner of their rented home.

A man from Utah has found a kidney donor for his wife after he spent two years appealing for help from passing drivers.

Politicians in Wisconsin are on the verge of passing a law that would remove an age limit on the use of hunting rifles.

Police in Dublin, Georgia, have slammed a "senseless" killing which saw a man kill his lifelong friend in a heated argument over the Bible.

A judge in the US state of Hawaii has forced a man to write 144 compliments to his former girlfriend after he pleaded guilty to harassment.

Former deputy sheriff Timothy Taylor crashed his patrol car into his ex-wife's Florida home in an apparent suicide bid.

A social media debate has been swirling in Ohio after schoolchildren sung "racist" lyrics which seemed to reference slavery-era cotton farming.

A new poll has revealed that most Americans think the presidential legacy of Trump will be negative.

A family in North Carolina recently made the shocking discovery that their son's gravestone had been repossessed by the company who had produced it.

Nearly 100 students reportedly walked out of a New Jersey school after the incident caught on Snapchat was widely shared.

The State Department said the US would withdraw from UNESCO on 31 December 2018 and seek to establish an observer mission instead.

North Korea's Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho said the reclusive regime is prepared to respond to the US with a "hail of fire, not words".