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Michelle Del Rey

Michelle Del Rey is a US reporter for The Independent, where she covers breaking news. She started her career freelancing for local and national outlets before going to work for newspapers in New York and Texas, where she reported on crime and politics. She speaks Spanish and is interested in reporting stories on underrepresented communities. You can reach her at michelle.delrey@independent.co.uk

<p>A puppy that was abandoned at a mobile home park in California chased after its owners once it was left behind</p>
Americas

Heartbreaking video shows abandoned puppy chasing owners’ car

<p>Former film producer Harvey Weinstein looks on during a preliminary hearing after his rape conviction was overturned inside the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on May 1 2024</p>
Americas

Harvey Weinstein facing September retrial

<p>Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley apologises for berating a police officer who pulled her over</p>
US Crime News

Email shows DA trashing colleagues days before she berated a cop

<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during live interview with Ben Shapiro at the symposium on fighting antisemitism on 22 January 2024 in Krakow, Poland</p>
Americas

Tesla’s HR chief leaves company after swathe of job cuts

<p>Students with the Gaza Solidarity Encampment take over Hamilton Hall at Columbia University naming it Hind's Hall, on Tuesday 30 April 2024 in New York </p>
Americas

Columbia Jewish pupil’s attorney says some protesters want ‘genocide’

<p>A British national has been ordered to pay more than $20,000 in restitution to United Airlines </p>
News & Advice

UK passenger to pay United Airlines $20,000 after forced diversion

<p>Elon Musk announced on Monday that he would be laying off the Tesla team responsible for constructing electric vehicle charging stations </p>
Americas

Tesla fires hundreds of employees a week after major profit slump

<p>Marshella Chidester, 66, appears in court. Her preliminary examination is set to begin on 27 and 28 June</p>
US Crime News

Driver ‘who killed two children in birthday crash’ appears in court

<p>Pro-Palestinian supporters continue to demonstrate with a protest encampment on the campus of Columbia University on April 29, 2024 in New York City. Columbia University issued a notice to the protesters asking them to disband their encampment after negotiations failed to come to a resolution</p>
Americas

Jewish student brings lawsuit against Columbia University over safety

<p>Malcolm Craig and Donna Conneely are thought to have been murdered on 27 February </p>
US Crime News

Charges over murder of couple whose body parts were found scattered

<p>Brittney Griner, pictured at the Met Gala in May 2023 with wife Cherelle, reflected on her time in a Russian prison in new interview </p>
Americas

Brittney Griner reflects on ‘lapse’ over vape that led Russian jail

<p>New York Monroe County DA Sandra Doorley got hostile with an officer last week, calling him an ‘a**hole’ after she evaded him in a traffic stop</p>
US Crime News

Video shows DA calling cop an “a**hole” in traffic stop violation

<p>Sam Obrovich, 71, was saved from a burning vehicle after his car crashed into a lamppost in St Paul, Minnesota</p>
Americas

Dramatic video shows strangers rescuing driver from burning car

Americas

Dramatic video shows strangers rescuing driver from burning car

<p>Sam Obrovich, 71, was saved from a burning vehicle after his car crashed into a lamppost in St Paul, Minnesota</p>
<p>Photo released by the National Transportation Safety Board shows a gaping hole where the paneled-over door fell off Boeing plane mid-flight in January </p>
News & Advice

Families of Max8 crash victims say Boeing is playing safety ‘roulette’

<p>USC public safety officers detain a pro-Palestine demonstrator during clashes after officers attempted to take down an encampment in support of Gaza at the University of Southern California on 24 April 2024 in Los Angeles, California.</p>
Americas

Riot police arrest students as Palestine protests spread

<p>Adam Montgomery and his lawyers Caroline Smith and James Brooks watch as potential jurors enter the courtroom for jury selection ahead of his murder trial at Hillsborough County Superior Court in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Tuesday 6 February 2024</p>
US Crime News

Adam Montgomery ordered to appear for sentencing after missing trial

<p>Mitt Romney, R-Utah, is surrounded by reporters as he arrives at the historic Old Senate Chamber at the Capitol in Washington 16 November 2022 </p>
US politics

Mitt Romney doesn’t hold back when asked about Stormy Daniels

<p>Mitt Romney, R-Utah, is surrounded by reporters as he arrives at the historic Old Senate Chamber at the Capitol in Washington 16 November 2022 </p>
US politics

Mitt Romney doesn’t hold back when asked about Stormy Daniels

<p>A woman ran up to a doorbell camera and screamed “please help me” before she was kidnapped by an unidentified bearded man on Sunday in Hillsboro, Oregon</p>
US Crime News

Man charged with kidnap after woman on doorbell cam screams ‘help me’

<p>Salvage work continues on the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore</p>
Americas

Baltimore officials sue ship owner and manager over bridge collapse

<p>Jon Ventura, 63, lost his wife Donna, 64, after she became ill from allegedly eating uncooked morel mushrooms at a sushi restaurant</p>
Americas

Final words of mom before death from eating mushrooms at sushi joint

<p>Executive chairman of Amazon Jeff Bezos and actress Lauren Sanchez arrive for a State Dinner in honor of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, at the Booksellers Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on 10 April 2024</p>
Americas

Lauren Sanchez asked Kellyanne Conway for advice on her public image

<p>John Oliver, pictured earlier this month, joked that he was close to proving that Hugh Jackman came from a UFO in his latest episode of <em>Last Week Tonight</em></p>
News

John Oliver jokes that he’s close to proving major UFO discovery

<p>Salvage work continues on the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge on Monday, 15 April 2024, in Baltimore. The FBI confirmed that agents were aboard the Dali conducting court-authorised law enforcement activity. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)</p>
News

Baltimore officials open third temporary channel around Key Bridge

<p>Part of a homeless encampment in Los Angeles includes a home with a front door and electricity. Officials say it poses safety concerns given its close proximity to the Arroyo Seco river</p>
Americas

Man builds entire home next to LA freeway

<p>Alex Ye, a high school student, has been charged after police discovered his plans to commit a school shooting</p>
US Crime News

Teen arrested for plotting mass shooting at elementary school

<p>Salvage work continues on the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge on Monday, 15 April 2024, in Baltimore. The FBI confirmed that agents were aboard the Dali conducting court-authorised law enforcement activity. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)</p>
News

Baltimore officials open third temporary channel around Key Bridge

<p>Part of a homeless encampment in Los Angeles includes a home with a front door and electricity. Officials say it poses safety concerns given its close proximity to the Arroyo Seco river</p>
Americas

Man builds entire home next to LA freeway

<p>Alex Ye, a high school student, has been charged after police discovered his plans to commit a school shooting</p>
US Crime News

Teen arrested for plotting mass shooting at elementary school

<p>Mandisa arrives at the 54th annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on February 12, 2012</p>
Music

Police open probe into American Idol star Mandisa’s death aged 47

Music

Police open probe into American Idol star Mandisa’s death aged 47

<p>Mandisa arrives at the 54th annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on February 12, 2012</p>
<p>Rats swarm around a bag of garbage near a dumpster in New York in July 2000</p>
Americas

New York City seeing uptick in rat urine illness

<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks on 7 March 2023, at the state Capitol in Tallahassee, Florida. On Wednesday, the governor signed a bill requiring communism be taught to grade school students starting in the 2026-2027 school year</p>
US politics

DeSantis signs bill to roll out communism lessons in Florida schools

<p>This photo of Captain Everett Leland Yager appeared in the Palmyra Spectator newspaper 20 December 1944</p>
Americas

Jawbone of US Marine killed in 1951 ‘found in boy’s rock collection’

<p>Authorities arrested five individuals involved in Canada’s largest gold heist. This picture shows one of the suspects and a truck that was used to steal about $20m CAD in gold, authorities said. </p>
Americas

Six arrested over Canada’s ‘largest’ ever gold heist worth $20m

<p>Authorities arrested five individuals involved in Canada’s largest gold heist. This picture shows one of the suspects and a truck that was used to steal about $20m CAD in gold, authorities said. </p>
Americas

Six arrested over Canada’s ‘largest’ ever gold heist worth $20m

<p>In this image taken from Uber dashcam video released by the Clark County, Ohio, Sheriff's Office, William Brock, right, holds a weapon to Uber driver Loletha Hall outside his home in South Charleston, Ohio, on 25 March 25 2024</p>
US Crime News

Horrifying moment phone scam victim, 81, kills innocent Uber driver

<p>American Airlines Airbus A320 aircraft taking off from the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Arizona</p>
News & Advice

Airline pilots union warn of ‘significant spike’ in safety issues

<p>The container ship Dali is stuck under part of the Francis Scott Key Bridge after the ship hit the bridge, March 26, 2024, in Baltimore, Maryland </p>
Americas

Baltimore suing cargo ship owner and operator over bridge collapse

<p>Rust movie armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed stands by her defense team during her involuntary manslaughter trial, Tuesday, 5 March, 2024</p>
US Crime News

Rust armourer called jury ‘idiots’ ahead of manslaughter sentencing

<p>Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39, were on their way to pick up children when they disappeared </p>
US Crime News

Four arrested on murder charges in case of two missing Oklahoma women

<p>Chicago police looking for suspects after Saturday shooting left one child dead. </p>
US Crime News

A shooting at a family party killed a child and injured 10 people

<p>OJ Simpson 2006 book If I Did It</p><p>Book cover</p>
Americas

How OJ Simpson’s book was seized and turned against him by Goldmans

<p>Alabama murderer gives up appeals and asks to be executed so that victims’ families have ‘justice’ said Derrick Dearman</p>
US Crime News

Alabama death row inmate says he wants to be executed

<p>A Houston mother has been arrested for allegedly abandoning her two children to go on a cruise. </p>
US Crime News

Texas mom charged with abandoning her young children to go on a cruise

<p>In clip, OJ Simpson denies reports he is in a hospice and quotes Donald Trump to say ‘you can’t trust the media’</p>
Americas

OJ Simpson told fans about good health before prostate cancer death

<p>The bodies of three of the six victims still remain missing from the Baltimore Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse last month. So far, authorities have been able to recover the remains of Maynor Yasir Suazo-Sandoval, 38, Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes, 35, and 26-year old Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera. A memorial for the victims has been built close to the site of the incident. </p>
Americas

Location of remaining Baltimore bridge victims’ bodies unknown

Americas

Location of remaining Baltimore bridge victims’ bodies unknown

<p>The bodies of three of the six victims still remain missing from the Baltimore Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse last month. So far, authorities have been able to recover the remains of Maynor Yasir Suazo-Sandoval, 38, Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes, 35, and 26-year old Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera. A memorial for the victims has been built close to the site of the incident. </p>
<p>The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was struck by a cargo ship called “Dali” on 26 March. Authorities, including the US Coast Guard and Maryland State Police continue working to reopen the bridge.</p>
Americas

Baltimore’s Latino community grieves Key Bridge victims

<p>Grace Jabbari and Jonathan Majors seen in surveillance footage from March 25 2023, when the incident at the centre of the actor’s assault trial occurred</p>
US Crime News

Jonathan Majors trial: Revelations from the Marvel star’s case

<p>Latino construction workers say they are scared about working on a project to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge, citing dangerous conditions. Miguel Velasquez, 41, speaks about the dangerous conditions in the industry and his relationship with one of the victims</p>
Americas

Baltimore bridge rebuilding ‘too dangerous’ after deaths, workers say

<p>Entrance Gate and Guard Station at Oklahoma State Penitentiary</p>
US Crime News

Oklahoma judge tells execution workers to ‘suck it up’

<p>Entrance Gate and Guard Station at Oklahoma State Penitentiary</p>
US Crime News

Oklahoma judge tells execution workers to ‘suck it up’

<p>This February 2021 photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Michael Dewayne Smith</p>
US Crime News

Oklahoma executes Michael Smith for 2002 murders

<p>Barge cranes are shown near the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge on the Patapsco River, in Baltimore, Maryland, 30 March 30 2024</p>
Americas

Baltimore officials open second channel as trade hub struggles

<p>The ship is thought to have ‘lost propulsion’ after it left the port </p>
Americas

What we know about Baltimore Key Bridge collapse

<p>This imagery, supplied by the @USNavy Naval Sea System Command (NAVSEA), shows the Francis Scott Key Bridge at the bottom of the Patapsco River </p>
Americas

New images show Baltimore bridge wreckage at bottom of river

<p>The fallen Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore is pictured Sunday, March 31, 2024</p>
Americas

Could ‘Titanic law’ protect owner of ship in Baltimore bridge crash?

<p>The fallen Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore is pictured Sunday, March 31, 2024</p>
Americas

Temporary channels to open around collapsed Baltimore bridge wreckage

<p>A power pole dangles in the air after the base was burned away when the Smokehouse Creek fire passed through the area on 2 March 2024 near Stinnett, Texas</p>
News

Texas faces threat of new wildfires

<p>Hospital Shooting-Inmate</p>
US Crime News

Murder victims tied to Idaho prison break ID’d as men aged 83 and 72

<p>This photo combo provided by Twin Falls County Sheriff's Office in Idaho shows from left, Nicholas Umphenour and Skylar Meade. (Twin Falls County Sheriff's Office via AP)</p>
LiveUS Crime News

Murder victims tied to Idaho prison break ID’d as men aged 83 and 72

<p>The singer, centre, collected the award together with his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin, left </p>
Features

Elton John, Bernie Taupin receive Gershwin Prize in DC

<p>In this Oct. 20, 2011 photo, the execution chamber at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution is shown in Boise, Idaho.</p>
US Crime News

Why states are moving away from lethal injection executions

US Crime News

Why states are moving away from lethal injection executions

<p>In this Oct. 20, 2011 photo, the execution chamber at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution is shown in Boise, Idaho.</p>
<p>Skylar Meade escaped after an accomplice broke him out of a hospital in Idaho at dead of night. Three correctional officers were shot and wounded, one by a police officer responding to the emergency call </p>
US Crime News

Prisoner escape from Idaho custody – here’s what we know

<p>A helicopter lands to evacuate personnel at the Dominican embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, March 21, 2024.</p>
Americas

US begins evacuation flights from Haiti as Americans ask for help

<p>Annie Lennox performs at the 2024 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song tribute concert honoring Elton John and Bernie Taupin on Wednesday, March 20, 2024 in Washington</p>
News

Annie Lennox calls Gaza crisis ‘heartbreaking’ at Elton John event

<p>Willie James Pye </p>
US Crime News

Georgia death row inmate to be executed after last-ditch appeal

<p>Willie James Pye </p>
US Crime News

Georgia death row inmate to be executed after last-ditch appeal

<p>This photo provided by Boise Police Department, shows Skylar Meade. Police in Idaho say officers were involved in a shooting at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho</p>
US Crime News

Prison officers shot as inmate breaks out of Idaho hospital

<p>Kaylee Gain was assaulted outside a high school on 8 March</p>
US Crime News

Kaylee Gain family gives update on her condition after Missouri attack

<p>NYPD Chief of Police gives a press conference on 15 March over subway shooting</p>
US Crime News

Armed man shot dead by NYPD after chasing man and woman

<p>Jonathan Majors and guest Grace Jabbari attend the “Devotion” Premiere at Cinesphere on 12 September 2022 in Toronto, Ontario</p>
Americas

Grace Jabbari sues ex Jonathan Majors for defamation and assault

<p>This handout picture courtesy of the Flower Mound Fire Department taken on February 28, 2024, shows a firefighter battling the Smokehouse Creek Fire, near Amarillo, in the Texas Panhandle. </p>
Americas

Smokehouse Creek fire, largest in Texas history, contained

<p>Officials arrested 26-year-old Andre Gordon after a series of shootings that took place in Pennsylvania on Saturday morning</p>
US Crime News

Gunman in custody after three shot dead in Philadelphia suburb

<p>Members of the General Security Unit of the National Palace, USGPN, set up a security perimeter around one of the three downtown stations after police fought off an attack by gangs the day before, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, March 9, 2024</p>
News & Advice

Is it safe to travel to Haiti now amid gang takeover?

<p>A woman walks past the smoking, empty National Penitentiary after a small fire broke out inside the jail in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Haiti, on 14 March 2024</p>
Americas

Elon Musk and others post unverified claims about Haiti cannibalism

<p>National Police patrol the area near the empty National Penitentiary after a small fire inside the jail in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Haiti, Thursday, March 14, 2024. </p>
Americas

Florida deploys extra security to state’s southern border over Haiti

<p>Haiti’s national prison is on fire after a blaze broke out in the facility on Thursday morning. </p>
Americas

Haiti’s national prison on fire as chaos continues in Caribbean nation

<p>The violence, which began on 29 February, has seen gang members burn down police stations and raid the country’s two biggest prisons, releasing more than 4,000 inmates</p>
LiveAmericas

Haiti in further turmoil as PM must appoint leadership council

<p>Off-duty police officer charged with punching driver for honking horn at him</p>
US Crime News

Off-duty police officer allegedly punched driver for honking horn

<p>Rescue personnel work at the remains of the Champlain Towers South condo building, June 25, 2021, in Surfside, Florida </p>
Americas

Surfside condo investigators reveal likely cause of collapse

<p>An aerial view shows cattle grazing on a small island of grass surrounded by a burned landscape in the aftermath of the Smokehouse Creek fire on 3 March 2024 near Pampa, Texas</p>
Americas

Faulty power line to blame for Texas wildfire, lawsuit claims

<p>Migrants wait to be processed by the US Customs and Border Patrol after they crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico, 19 October 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas</p>
Americas

Supreme Court blocks controversial Texas immigration law

<p>Residents clear out snow in front of their home on Donner Pass Road during a powerful multiple day winter storm in the Sierra Nevada mountains</p>
Americas

The Donner pass, California route notorious for cannibal incident

<p>An aerial view shows cattle grazing on a small island of grass surrounded by a burned landscape in the aftermath of the Smokehouse Creek fire on 3 March 2024 near Pampa, Texas</p>
Americas

Faulty power line to blame for Texas wildfire, lawsuit claims

<p>Migrants wait to be processed by the US Customs and Border Patrol after they crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico, 19 October 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas</p>
Americas

Supreme Court blocks controversial Texas immigration law

<p>Residents clear out snow in front of their home on Donner Pass Road during a powerful multiple day winter storm in the Sierra Nevada mountains</p>
Americas

The Donner pass, California route notorious for cannibal incident

<p>Skiers enjoy a day of skiing and snow fall at North Star California Resort on 29 February 2024 inTruckee, California </p>
Weather

California braces for 10 feet of snow and blizzard conditions

<p>This image provided by the Idaho Department of Correction shows Thomas Eugene Creech on Jan. 9, 2009</p>
US Crime News

What is death row future of Thomas Creech after botched execution

<p>Texas Execution</p>
US Crime News

Texas executes death row inmate despite Kim K’s bid to spare him

<p>This photo released by the National Transportation Safety Board shows a gaping hole where the paneled-over door had been at the fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, Jan. 7, 2024, in Portland, Oregon </p>
Americas

Review of Boeing finds safety culture to be concerning

<p>This April 8, 2002, image obtained from the Idaho Department of Correction shows death row inmate Thomas Creech</p>
US Crime News

Idaho halts Thomas Creech execution after botching lethal injection

<p>Elijah Vue, 3, was last seen in Two Rivers Wisconsin on 20 February 2024</p>
US Crime News

FBI offers new reward for news of missing Wisconsin boy Elijah Vue, 3

<p>Hasson Bacote, 37, is appealing his death penalty sentence under North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act</p>
US Crime News

North Carolina death penalty case could set statewide precedent

<p>Dollar Tree owner fined more than $41m over rat-infested warehouse</p>
Americas

Dollar Tree owner fined more than $41m over rat-infested warehouse

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