New York City building collapse leaves people trapped in rubble

Firefighters say people are trapped under rubble after a three-storey building in Brooklyn collapsed.

The proposed radical overhaul of the welfare system would move under-25s off the main sickness benefits.

On election night, Hyde-Smith nearly declared victory to a crowd of supporters at a watch party. But Colom proved her wrong.

Democrat chatted up people at hair salons, colleges and at Trump rallies to become Mississippi’s first Black senator since Reconstruction The ad is simple, less than half a minute long, but many say it was the moment the nation took notice of Mississippi’s US Senate race. In it, the incumbent Republican senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, a cattle farmer, answers a reporter’s question about the rising price of beef: “You know, you have so many proteins to choose from,” she says. Continue reading...