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The US Defence Department issued an official warning to troops last week: if you don't want to test positive on a drug test, you should avoid poppy seeds. A memo distributed on Friday from Gilbert Cisneros, the Undersecretary of Defence for Personnel and Readiness, directed military service leaders to "notify service members to avoid consumption of all poppy seeds to include food products and baked goods containing poppy seeds". "Out of an abundance of caution, I find protecting service members and the integrity of the drug testing program requires a warning to avoid poppy seeds," Cisneros wrote in the memo, released on Tuesday. READ MORE: The NSW pocket where thousands have been left homeless "As more information becomes available, we will revise this policy acco...

The man convicted in the shooting death of rapper Nipsey Hussle was sentenced to 60 years to life in prison during a court hearing in the US. A jury determined that Eric Ronald Holder Jr shot Hussle outside the hip-hop artist's clothing store in March 2019. Prosecutors alleged that Holder approached Hussle over allegations he had called him a snitch. Holder was sentenced to up to 25 years for shooting Hussle and an extra 25 years for firearm enhancements added to the charge. He was also convicted of two counts of attempted voluntary manslaughter for injuring two other men in the incident, for which he was sentenced to an additional 10 years. READ MORE: The NSW pocket where thousands have been left homeless Holder's father submitted a letter to the court apologisin...

Human bones found inside a submerged car near two US state lines in 2021 have been matched to a college student who had been missing for 47 years, according to a Georgia sheriff. Kyle Clinkscales, 22, of LaGrange, in Georgia, vanished in January 1976 after leaving the Georgia club where he worked as a bartender to return to school at Auburn University in neighboring Alabama. Investigators got a break in the cold case in December 2021, when someone spotted a car in a murky Alabama creek. READ MORE: The NSW pocket where thousands have been left homeless Kyle Clinkscales vanished in January 1976 after leaving the Georgia club where he worked as a bartender. (Supplied) The 1974 Ford Pinto pulled from the water belonged to Clinkscales, and some of his belongings were ...

A US television news employee was shot dead and another wounded while covering an earlier fatal shooting incident in Orlando, Florida. Orange County Sheriff John Mina told a news conference that the employees worked for broadcaster Spectrum News 13. The Orange County Sheriff's Office said earlier on Twitter that one person was in custody. READ MORE: The NSW pocket where thousands have been left homeless A man has been arrested after three people were killed in multiple shootings in Florida. (CNN) Keith Melvin Moses, 19, has been arrested and charged with murder in connection to a shooting on Wednesday morning, Mina said. Moses is expected to be charged in four other shootings that occurred later in the day, including the killing of the Spectrum News 13 journal...

A baby girl who was born under the rubble of her family’s earthquake-shattered home has left the hospital and gone to her new home, where she will live with her paternal aunt’s family. The girl had been at the hospital since hours after the February 6 earthquake. She was discharged Saturday and her aunt and uncle adopted her and gave her a new name, Afraa, after her late mother. Afraa's mother died in the quake along with her father and four siblings. A day after the infant arrived at the hospital, officials there named her Aya — Arabic for “a sign from God.” READ MORE: 'I think this is the last video I will ever shoot for you': Turkish teen filmed 'last moments' from apartment Khalil al-Sawadi holds Afraa, a baby girl who was born under the rubble caused by an earthq...

More than two weeks after a toxic train wreck unleashed plumes of black smoke, contaminated the soil and fuelled anxiety in East Palestine, Ohio, residents have reported a growing number of ailments – from rashes to nausea to trouble breathing. Now, the state will open a health clinic on Tuesday for residents who worry their symptoms might be linked to the February 3 derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train and the subsequent release of the toxic chemical vinyl chloride. And medical teams from the US Centres for Diseases Control and Prevention and the US Department of Health will be on the ground in Ohio this week, at the request of Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine. The teams will help assess what dangers might remain in the community of about 5000 people. READ MORE: Police i...