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Watch live as the defence delivers closing arguments in Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial.

A man has taken to Reddit to share how his fiancée bought him an engagement gun to symbolise her love and commitment to him - and says he thinks of her every time he uses it

Authorities say a Chicago police officer has died after being wounded during a shootout while responding to a call of a man chasing a woman with a gun

Lettie Pattison was found dead at Epsom College alongside her mother and father

Surrey Coroner's Court has revealed details of their deaths

Coroner Simon Wickens expressed his condolences to those who loved or knew Mrs Pattison and Lettie, whose full name was Ellette Francesca

I was in South Carolina last week: scene of the trial and home of the Murdaugh dynasty. Both tell us a lot about race and power today, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

I still remember the raspy voice of the wizened cancer patient with the hole in her throat. So addicted to the poison that was killing her ‌— cigarettes ‌‌— she interspersed her words of warning about the dangers of smoking with taking puffs of a cigarette through her tracheostomy hole‌‌.

The teenager was attacked after a fight broke out