Tom Leonard

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Tom Leonard

It may seem hard to credit now but, back in October 2022, Ukrainian forces were steadily liberating territory from the Russian invaders. That is until, suddenly, they weren’t. The pushbacks on two fronts, the east and the south, ground to a simultaneous standstill as the troops reported a ‘catastrophic’ breakdown in communications.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Tom Leonard

With a combative new US health secretary declaring war on junk food, additives and such sugary staples of American life as corn syrup, you might forgive the corporate food giants if they've lost a little appetite. Expensive processed meals and fatty, chemical-laden treats are highly profitable, as a trip to any supermarket, where they dominate aisle after aisle, makes clear. Yet Big Food was already feeling queasy well before Robert F. Kennedy Jr took up his post last month.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Tom Leonard

Is flying still the safest way to travel? Americans might be forgiven for thinking otherwise given the alarming string of recent disasters. On Sunday, a small plane crashed in the parking lot of a retirement community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, injuring all five people on board and destroying half a dozen cars. That incident followed a devastating midair collision in Washington DC in late January, when all 67 people aboard an American Airlines flight and an army helicopter died.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Tom Leonard

As he sat strapped tight to a chair with a black hood placed over his head, it was difficult to tell whether Ronnie Lee Gardner was alive or dead when four bullets ripped into his chest though a white cloth target pinned over his heart. But precisely two minutes later, with blood seeping through his navy blue prison jumpsuit, he was indeed declared dead.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Tom Leonard

On the afternoon of January 20, US Border Patrol agents in a remote corner of Vermont turned on the blue and red flashing lights of their unmarked pickup truck and forced a Toyota Prius to pull over. It was a routine stop to check the occupants weren’t illegal migrants. But there was nothing routine about what followed.