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The world’s largest cruise ship is set to begin its maiden voyage on Saturday. Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas will set sail from Miami in Florida with a capacity for up to 7,600 passengers and 2,350 crew members. The ship runs nearly 1,200ft (365m) from bow to stern and is divided into eight neighbourhoods

Donald Trump has been ordered to pay $83.3m in a defamation case to a woman who accused him of sexual assault – with the former US president saying her allegation was a lie. The court said Trump should pay $18.3m (£14.4m) in compensation and $65m (£51m) in punitive damages to E Jean Carroll. Trump posted

Donald Trump stormed out of a courtroom on Friday as closing arguments began in a damages trial in New York. A jury found Trump liable last year for sexually abusing E Jean Carroll in a New York department store in the 1990s and defaming her after she wrote about the incident. The current trial focuses

Donald Trump gave evidence for just three minutes on Thursday in a defamation trial to determine how much he may owe a writer for calling her a liar after she accused him in 2019 of rape. E Jean Carroll, 80, is seeking more than $10m (£7.87m) in damages over his denials when he was US

It was Trump’s night, no question. New Hampshire delivered numbers that cement his position as the Republican nominee in waiting and tighten his grip on the party. This primary race has been coloured all shades of anti-Trump, strategies from attack to appeasement, but he remains seemingly untouchable. He has consolidated and grown support in a

Donald Trump has won the Republican presidential primary in New Hampshire. The result is a setback for former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley who invested significant time and financial resources into winning the state. She is the last major challenger in the race after Florida governor Ron DeSantis ended his presidential bid over the weekend. Ms

Home Alone actor Devin Ratray has been treated in hospital – delaying a domestic assault trial, according to US media. The 47-year-old child star, who played older brother Buzz alongside Macaulay Culkin’s Kevin McCallister in the hit 1990s films, had been due to stand trial on Monday. Ahead of the planned start date in Oklahoma,

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis – once tipped as Donald Trump’s biggest challenger for the Republican presidential nomination – has suspended his campaign. It comes after Trump won a resounding victory in the Republican Party’s Iowa caucuses, with DeSantis only narrowly beating his nearest rival, Nikki Haley. He said following the result and “deliberation” with his

A teacher in the US has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly being caught on hidden camera poisoning her husband’s smoothie. Sarah Scheffer’s husband installed the surveillance equipment after suspecting his wife had been contaminating his food and drink over a number of weeks, causing him to feel unwell. When questioned by police in

Donald Trump was threatened with expulsion from his Manhattan civil trial yesterday after he repeatedly ignored a warning to keep quiet. Trump was repeatedly heard making remarks while writer E Jean Carroll testified that he destroyed her reputation after she accused him of sexual abuse. In an initial warning, Judge Lewis A Kaplan told the

Apple has said it will remove a central feature from two of its flagship watch models in the US, while the iPhone maker fights a legal battle over a patent dispute on the technology behind it. The company said Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 models would go on sale on its website and

A mother has claimed police raided the “wrong house” and deployed diversionary flash-bang devices that injured her 17-month-old son – leaving the infant in hospital with burns. Police have offered a different account of what happened – saying they executed a search warrant at the correct address and the child was not harmed during the

Temperatures in parts of the US could drop to about -30C as Donald Trump urged voters in one state to brave the blizzard conditions. At least four people have died in a dangerous Arctic blast, which has knocked out electricity for hundreds of thousands of people, brought snow even to southern states and postponed a

The former head of the UK’s secret intelligence service has warned the return of Donald Trump to the White House could pose a “political threat” to Britain. Speaking to Sky News’ Sunday Morning with Trevor Philips, Sir Richard Dearlove said the re-election of the former US president would be “problematic” for the UK’s national security

Extreme winter weather is causing major disruption in the US as a continuing wave of Arctic storms hit flights, NFL playoff games and election campaigns. Dangerously cold wind, freezing rain and heavy snow are predicted for much of the country this weekend with temperatures threatening to drop to record lows in the midwest. Governors from

Donald Trump defied a judge and launched into a six-minute speech on being an “innocent man” as his civil fraud trial in New York came to an end today. Mr Trump had been barred from giving a formal closing argument at the trial but after two of his lawyers delivered the traditional speeches, one asked

Online retailer eBay has agreed to pay a $3m (£2.4m) fine to resolve criminal charges over employees who harassed a couple by sending live spiders, cockroaches to their home. David and Ina Steiner also had a funeral wreath, a bloody pig mask, and a book about surviving the loss of a spouse, show up at

The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s civil fraud case has been subject to a bomb threat, Sky News’s US partner network NBC News reports. Nassau County police responded to the threat at Arthur Engoron’s home on Thursday, according to a source with direct knowledge of the situation. Closing arguments in the trial are scheduled today,

Any stage will do. Donald Trump didn’t have to attend the appeal hearing in Washington DC but in this, an election year, he insisted.  No wonder. It’s a no-brainer. Trump’s legal troubles continue to propel his popularity and his fundraising. So with a federal courthouse swamped by media for the latest legal twist, there is

Donald Trump has appeared in court as he tries to dismiss a federal criminal case where he faces charges he plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Mr Trump‘s lawyers argued in front of appeal judges in Washington DC that he was immune from prosecution because he was president at the time of