National: Breaking US News from the BBC

Here is the latest US News from the BBC.

Nintendo to sell Seattle Mariners stake
Japanese gaming company Nintendo says it plans to sell its majority stake in US baseball team Seattle Mariners.

Valeant boss ‘regrets’ raising prices
Valeant’s outgoing boss ‘regrets’ raising drug prices

Facebook triples quarterly profits
Facebook reported a 195% jump in its first quarter net income as advertising continued to grow.

China’s push for driverless cars accelerates
China’s push for driverless cars accelerates

The rise of the middle-aged intern
The growing number of people switching careers in later life

VIDEO: Fire rips through Canada rail bridge
Fire engulfs a rail trestle bridge in Mayerthorpe in the Canadian province of Alberta.

VIDEO: Bobbi Kristina Brown’s drug use ‘got bad’
Bobbi Kristina Brown’s drug use “got really bad” before she died, her boyfriend Nick Gordon says.

VIDEO: Trump’s ‘shift towards the mainstream’
The former US ambassador to the United Nations says Donald Trump’s foreign policy speech in Washington signalled a ‘shift towards the mainstream’.

Sanders ‘begins campaign lay-offs’
The campaign of US Democrat Bernie Sanders starts laying off staff members, a day after a series of losses to Hillary Clinton in key states.

Playing ‘the woman card’: How would a female Trump do?
How would a female Donald Trump do?

Cruz ‘picks Fiorina as running mate’
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is set to announce former contender Carly Fiorina as his running mate, US media reports.

Ex-House Speaker ‘serial child molester’
A federal judge has sentenced Dennis Hastert to 15 months in prison, calling the former House Speaker “a serial child molester”.

DreamWorks shares soar on bid reports
DreamWorks Animation’s shares surge almost 18% on reports that US cable giant Comcast is in talks to buy the Hollywood studio for $3bn (£2.1bn).

Trump lists ‘America First’ foreign plan
Donald Trump gives details of his foreign policy in a speech, a day after sweeping to a win in five US Republican primaries.

Trump sweeps five US state primaries
Donald Trump wins Republican presidential primaries in all five US states that voted, while Democrat Hillary Clinton notches four from five.

VIDEO: Decoding Trump and Clinton’s speeches
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton won decisive victories in the race for their parties’ presidential nomination – what did we learn from the speeches by the winners and losers?

VIDEO: Clinton: We can be dreamers and doers
Hillary Clinton has told her supporters in Philadelphia that the “dreamers and doers” of the Democratic Party can make America better.

VIDEO: Trump pledges to ‘beat the system’
Donald Trump says he will “beat the system” to win the Republican presidential nomination.

Prince ‘did not leave will’, court told
Pop star Prince did not leave a will, his sister reveals in court documents.

Apple reports falling sales
Apple reports its first decline in quarterly sales since 2003, as sales of iPhones fall.

Canada and UK to press allies on ransoms
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he and UK counterpart David Cameron will press allies over making ransom payments after the death of a Canadian hostage.

US firefighters backtrack on meteorite
Firefighters in the US state of Maryland backtrack after blaming a meteorite for a brush fire.

VIDEO: Dolezal on life since race identity row
Rachel Dolezal looks back on her life since the media storm over her racial identity

NFL star charged with domestic violence
Former Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel is charged with assaulting his ex-girlfriend, with the American Football star expected to plead not guilty.

Gay couple win Thai custody battle
A same-sex foreign couple win custody over a baby born to a Thai surrogate mother who tried to keep the child after discovering they were gay.

VIDEO: ‘System is rigged and broken’
Donald Trump has attacked a deal between his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination.

Trudeau outrage at Philippines murder
The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemns the killing of a Canadian hostage kidnapped by Islamist militants in the Philippines.

Trump and Clinton vie for north-east US
Voters in five north-eastern US states will cast ballots in primaries that could cement the leads of front-runners Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

Sixx AM: How Donald Trump inspired our new album
Rock band Sixx AM say Donald Trump inspired an album of protest songs

Five key talking points in Beyonce’s Lemonade
Beyonce’s surprise album packs a political punch

VIDEO: US troop increase in Syria ‘marginal’
Former NATO Commander Admiral James Stavridis tells the BBC the US troop increase in Syria will have a ‘marginal affect’.

North Carolina LGBT law fuels protests
Thousands of activists rally outside the North Carolina legislature as it reconvenes for the first time since enacting a law criticised as anti-gay.

VIDEO: Obama urges EU for ‘unity’ on security
President Obama has urged European leaders to pay more towards international security, to tackle threats, like those posed by the self-declared Islamic State group.

NFL’s Manziel ‘faces assault charge’
Troubled NFL quarterback Johnny Manziel is expected to be indicted over an alleged assault on his ex-girlfriend, his lawyer says.

Cleveland to pay $6m over Rice shooting
The US city of Cleveland agrees to pay $6m (£4.14m) to the family of 12-year-old black boy Tamir Rice, shot and killed by a white policeman in 2014.

Canadian hostage killed in Philippines
A Canadian man held captive by Islamist militants for months in the Philippines is killed, in an act Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calls “coldblooded murder”.

LA Times owner reviews uninvited bid
LA Times owner, Tribune Publishing, says it is reviewing an uninvited offer from media firm Gannett to buy the company.

Brady ‘deflate-gate’ ban restored
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has his four game ‘deflate-gate’ ban restored by a US appeals court.

Republican pact ‘desperate’ says Trump
Donald Trump says a pact formed by his two rivals for the Republican presidential crown is a desperate act, a day before five states cast votes.

Billy Paul of Me and Mrs Jones dies
The American soul singer Billy Paul, best known for his 1972 Me and Mrs Jones hit, dies at the age of 80.

Republican rivals team up to slow Trump
Republican rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich announce they will co-ordinate strategies to tackle frontrunner Donald Trump in forthcoming US primaries.

Viewpoint: How would Trump remove 11 million people from the US?
How would Trump remove 11 million people from the US?

US ex-senator, 90, to marry a man
Former US Senator Harris Wofford, 90, prepares to marry a man, 20 years after the death of his wife.

The man who bet his house on his invention
The man who bet his house on his invention being a success

Obama dismisses N Korea nuclear ‘offer’
US President Barack Obama dismisses a proposal by North Korea to suspend nuclear tests if the US stops its annual military exercises with South Korea.