The two-week murder trial of a dad accused of killing his ex-cheerleader daughter got underway in Oklahoma this week. The man claims his daughter accidentally shot herself. A court source informs PEOPLE that Ronald Lee McMullen Jr., 45, of Norman, was in Cleveland County Court on Monday for the start of his trial on first-degree murder charges. Jury selection occurred […]

The White House on Wednesday sent out talking points on how to spin the release of a summary of President Trump’s phone call to his counterpart in Ukraine — but emailed them to House Democrats, apparently by mistake. “Let’s be clear, there was no quid pro quo for Ukraine to get US aid in exchange for looking into Biden and […]

A brave Oklahoma grandpa gave his life to save his 3-year-old granddaughter from the family’s exploded home, according to a new report. Don Osteen, an Army veteran and Purple Heart recipient, was a hero on the homefront Thursday, when the explosion broke out as he ate lunch with his granddaughter, Paetyn, local outlet KFOR reported. He was lighting a candle […]

A TRANSGENDER man who gave birth has today lost a High Court fight to be named as the dad on the birth certificate. Freddy McConnell, who was born a woman but gave birth while legally registered as a man following surgery, wanted to be registered as father or parent. But a judge on Wednesday ruled against the multimedia Guardian journalist after analysing […]

Contents of Tudor mansion with links to Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith and Thomas Hardy are set to fetch over £1MILLION at auction Hundreds of treasures inside Athelhampton House in Dorset will go under the hammer next month The outgoing owners have recently sold the £7million mansion and can’t take the heirlooms with them  Around 500 items remain at […]

Lady Hale brooch-inspired T-shirts fly off the shelves with one eBay seller flogging seven THOUSAND in less than 24 hours as Twitter users hail ‘Spider woman’ after Supreme Court ruling Lady Hale inspired the sale of a T-shirt with a spider on – similar to her brooch  Balcony Shirts created the design and have sold nearly 7,000 since yesterday Twitter […]

THE CIA has lifted the lid on the opening days of the Afghanistan war when a team was dropped in to hunt down Al Qaeda in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In a series of images, the agency lays bare the intense operation by its operatives in 2001, involving hideouts, cavalry charges on commandeered horses and winning over […]

Businesswoman, 36, is banned and fined after drinking a bottle of wine and smashing her Honda Accord into two parked cars while making a 400-yard trip to buy cigarettes after a girls night out Nicola Cockayne had consumed a bottle of white wine and Baileys on a night out The hair salon boss thought it was fine to drive to […]

ARCHIE has stolen the limelight as he met Desmond Tutu today – with the Archbishop's daughter joking the baby boy will "be a ladies man". Prince Harry and Meghan Markle beamed as they showed off their adorable four-month-old son, with the duchess saying her little boy was an "old soul". Meghan, 38, cuddled her little boy while doting dad Harry, […]

HUNDREDS of ex Thomas Cook staff could be in line for thousands of pounds of extra pay on top of their redundancy due to a little known labour law, according to a leading employment lawyer. Aneil Balgobin of Simpson Millar solicitors says staff who were not told to come into work on Monday are likely to be able to make […]