<p>A pilot was saved by police officers moments before their plane was destroyed by an incoming train. On Sunday, January 9, a Cessna crash-landed into a railway in Los Angeles, California, but just seconds before a train was set to hit the plane, several police officers managed to free its pilot and drag them to <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/heroic-police-rescue-pilot-seconds-before-train-smashes-into-crash-landed-plane/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>The leader of an anti-vaccination organisation has urged people to drink their own urine to fight against coronavirus. Christopher Key is the leader of the so-called ‘Vaccine Police’; an organisation that condemns the Covid-19 vaccine and has repeatedly lashed out at the jabs and those supporting them over the last few months. Key threatened those <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/anti-vax-leader-urges-people-to-drink-their-own-urine-to-fight-against-the-virus/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>At least 19 people, including nine children, have died in a Bronx apartment building blaze believed to be the one of the worst fires in New York for decades. New York Mayor Eric Adams confirmed that a further 32 people had been hospitalised, many of whom remain in critical condition. The fire is understood to <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/bronx-high-rise-19-dead-in-new-yorks-deadliest-fire-in-decades/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>A man has been arrested after he made a bomb threat to try and jump the queue at a Doja Cat concert. On Saturday, January 8, a queue waited outside of Monument Circle in Indianapolis for 12 hours to attend a free concert by Doja Cat, which was hosted in the run-up to the College <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/man-who-made-bomb-threat-to-jump-doja-cat-concert-queue-arrested/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>Janitors will be replaced by students at a Minnesota high school following a shortage of custodians in the district. The Anoka-Hennepin School District – the largest in the state – is 18 short of its usual 220 employees, meaning some buildings are not being cleaned as efficiently as possible. After brainstorming a fix, the district <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/high-school-students-replace-janitors-to-clean-classrooms/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>The US government has come to the defence of birds after a fake conspiracy theory claiming they were actually drones went viral. In a truly bizarre thread, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission told the story of a pair of birds having a heart-to-heart about a potluck, telling its followers ‘birds are real.’ The statement <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/birds-are-real-us-government-confirms-after-drone-meme-confusion/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers have claimed a third juror in her trial lied about being abused. The news comes as Maxwell has been given hope of a retrial after it was alleged two jurors’ experience of sexual abuse may have swayed other jurors. Now, a source has said Maxwell’s team feel ‘confident’ that a third juror <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/ghislaine-maxwell-lawyers-claim-third-juror-lied-about-being-abused/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>Shocking footage has been released showing a man burst into flames after a police officer’s taser ignited with the hand sanitiser the man had rubbed over his body. Jason Jones, 29, died last month – six weeks after the incident took place in a police station in the town of Catskill. Now, Attorney General Letitia <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/man-covered-in-hand-santiser-bursts-into-flames-after-police-use-stun-gun-on-him/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>The Millennium Tower in San Francisco’s financial district is now tilting 26 inches. According to structural engineer Ronald O. Hamburger, who is attempting to stabilise the tower, the luxury residential building is now tilting three inches per year. Opening to residents in 2009, the 58-story, 645-foot tall skyscraper is settling unevenly. Efforts to stabilise the <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/skyscraper-leaning-3-inches-per-year-as-architects-scramble-to-prevent-disaster/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>The UK’s COVID-19 death toll has officially passed 150,000. The total number of deaths reported within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test now sits at 150,057, making it the fourth-highest death toll in the world behind Brazil, India and the US. It comes after the latest daily figures showed a further 313 coronavirus-related fatalities. <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/uks-covid-death-toll-has-passed-150000-as-cases-soar/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>The three men convicted of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery have been sentenced to life in prison. Greg and Travis McMichael and their neighbour, William ‘Roddie’ Bryan were found guilty of Arbery’s murder in November, after a jury heard that they chased him in pickup trucks while shouting racial slurs, before he was fatally shot <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/three-men-convicted-of-killing-ahmaud-arbery-sentenced-to-life/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>A ‘dangerous’ murder suspect managed to jog out of a Georgia prison after a storm caused the cell door to malfunction. Kevin David Lenix Wilson, 32, is currently being held in Effingham County jail on a numerous charges dating back to October 2020. Earlier this week, on Monday, January 3, local weather caused a ‘glitch’ <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/dangerous-murder-suspect-escapes-prison-after-storm-causes-door-malfunction/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>Three former Minneapolis police officers charged over the death of George Floyd are set to stand trial this month. Tou Thao, J. Kueng and Thomas Lane are set to appear in St. Paul courthouse for the federal trial after fellow former officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty last year of murder and manslaughter in Floyd’s <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/three-remaining-officers-charged-over-george-floyds-death-to-stand-trial-this-month/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>The St. Louis couple who made headlines after pointing guns at Black Lives Matter protesters are requesting that they get their weapons back from the city. Images of Mark and Patricia McCloskey quickly went viral after they stood guard outside their home in June 2020, when BLM protesters made their way past their home on <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/couple-who-pointed-guns-at-black-lives-matter-protesters-want-weapons-back/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>A Tennessee Republican has apologised after being filmed losing his temper at a school basketball match and attempting to ‘pants’ a referee. 45 year-old Jeremy Faison is a Tennessee House Republican, making him one of the top lawmakers in the country. He’s also got a short temper though – as bizarre footage taken from a <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/republican-lawmaker-apologises-for-trying-to-pants-referee-at-high-school-basketball-game/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>In a speech marking the one-year anniversary of the deadly Capitol riots, President Joe Biden has blamed Donald Trump for the January 6 Capitol riot – but refused to mention his predecessor by name. Refusing to mention the former president by name a single time during his nearly 30-minute speech, Biden said that Trump had <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/capitol-riots-joe-biden-refuses-to-mention-donald-trumps-name-in-insurrection-speech/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>The stepmother of missing girl Harmony Montgomery has been arrested and charged in an incident related to the seven-year-old’s disappearance. Harmony was last seen in Manchester, New Hampshire, in October 2019 when she was five-years-old and was first declared missing on December 31, 2021, when authorities realised nobody had seen her for more than two <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/harmony-montgomery-step-mother-now-arrested-in-case-of-missing-7-year-old/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>One of the rioters currently jailed for his part in the January 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill last year has hit out at former president Donald Trump for not doing more to help him and others who have wound up in prison. 25-year-old Edward Jacob Lang was arrested on 13 different counts relating to his <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/capitol-riots-rioter-hits-out-at-trump-as-he-claims-he-is-rotting-in-jail/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>A judge who sentenced a truck driver to 110 years in prison has criticised a governor for reducing the sentence without telling him. Jefferson County District Court Judge Bruce Jones handed down the lifelong sentence to Rogel Aguilera-Mederos after he lost his brakes and drove his truck into stationary traffic in Colorado, killing four people. <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/judge-who-sentenced-killer-trucker-to-110-years-hits-out-at-governor-who-reduced-sentence-without-telling-him/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>A woman has opened up about her experience trying to smuggle 5kg worth of cocaine out of South America. At the age of 19, Natalie was manipulated by her drug dealer into attempting to fly 5kg worth of cocaine out of Venezuela. Detailing how she felt when she got caught, as well as the circumstances <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/woman-explains-how-she-tried-to-smuggle-5kg-of-cocaine-out-of-south-america/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>The infamous QAnon Shaman who became the face of the January 6 Capitol riots last year has blamed the media for being the poster boy of the event, and has insisted he was actually trying to calm the crowd. With his red, white and blue face paint, Viking hat and six-foot spear that he brought <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/qanon-shaman-insists-he-tried-to-calm-the-crowd-during-capitol-riots/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>Today, January 6, marks one year since the shocking insurrection at the US Capitol in Washington DC, where Donald Trump supporters stormed the building in protest of Joe Biden’s presidential win. News of a protest in the city on January 6 was not unexpected, with Trump himself having rallied his supporters with a tweet just <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/capitol-riots-heres-what-happened-on-the-day/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>Joe Biden is set to give a speech on Capitol Hill today, a year on from the deadly insurrection that took place on January 6 last year in an attempt to stop the current president from being certified. The speech was at one point looking like it might coincide with a news conference by Donald <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/capitol-riots-biden-to-give-speech-as-trump-cancels-conference-on-insurrection-anniversary/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>