A judge says the man who attempted to assassinate president Ronald Reagan will be allowed to leave a Washington mental hospital and live full time in Virginia.

A FORMER US government space scientist pleaded guilty yesterday to attempted espionage for trying to sell classified information to an undercover FBI agent posing as an Israeli spy.

A judge has relaxed restrictions on John Hinckley, the man who shot former US president Ronald Reagan, to allow him his first overnight visits outside the Washington area in almost 25 years.

THE man who shot President Reagan no longer poses a danger to himself or others, a hospital psychiatrist testified yesterday.

American Airlines has released the names of some of the people who died on its flights in the terror attacks on New York and Washington.