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America's top internet sleuths have refused to help law enforcement officials track down the assassin of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The 50-year-old father-of-two was gunned down earlier this week, with the footage of his assassination circulating on social media amidst an ongoing manhunt for his killer. Typically this type of high-profile violent crime sets platforms including TikTok and X alight with buzz, with amateur internet sleuths hunting to root out the perpetrator. But many armchair detectives have decided to keep schtum, even as eerie details filtered out earlier this week including a hidden message being left on shell casings at...

Teresa Kerry, the wife of the presidential candidate, has proved herself a key electoral asset ahead of the Democratic convention later this month, writes Nicholas Wapshott Teresa Kerry is perched on a child's chair in the Fort George Community Enrichment Centre in Washington Heights, New York, with her knees uncomfortably close to her chest. Around her in a circle sit a dozen three and four-year-olds, mostly of Puerto Rican-born parents, reading in a Spanish sing-song the nursery rhyme Incey-Wincey Spider. Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry is a shy woman who has been hurled into the limelight somewhat against her...