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Joe Biden says he visited the island of Ireland last month to make sure the “Brits didn’t screw around”. The US president – who is vocal about his Irish ancestry – made the comments at an event for the Democratic Party in New York on Wednesday. He visited Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland

Donald Trump called the woman he sexually abused a lying “wack job” and refused to say who he wants to win the Ukraine war in a wide-ranging interview on US television. A jury in a civil case ruled this week that he assaulted – but didn’t rape – E Jean Carroll in a department store

Donald Trump has promised to appeal and called it a “disgrace” after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing a writer in the 1990s.  The former US president was also found to have defamed E Jean Carroll, but the civil trial rejected her claim she was raped during the encounter. Trump must pay the

Donald Trump did not show up at a civil rape trial against him because “he knows what he did” to the woman accusing him of allegedly raping her, a jury heard in closing remarks. Lawyers for writer E Jean Carroll, who is suing the former president, said Mr Trump “didn’t even bother to show up

A gunman who killed at least eight people and injured several others at a Texas shopping centre was a 33-year-old suspected neo-Nazi sympathiser, police have said. Police have named Mauricio Garcia as the gunman who opened fire on shoppers at the Allen Premium Outlets mall, in a suburb north of Dallas, on Saturday. Garcia, who

President Joe Biden called on Republican members of Congress to pass gun control bills in the wake of yet another mass shooting that left nine people dead, including the gunman, at a Texas mall on Saturday. The shooter was named on Sunday as 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia, according to two senior law enforcement officials who spoke

The US has experienced more mass shootings than days so far in 2023, with thousands dead as a result. There were at least 191 in the first 127 days of the year, with the latest in a busy Texas shopping mall leaving nine people dead, including the suspected gunman. On average, the US has seen

Apple has beat Wall Street expectations and market trends in reporting increased iPhone sales in its second quarter results. Both revenues and profits were above investor predictions as a record number of iPhones were sold for the second three month period in its financial year. Sales for the year ending 1 April dropped overall –

Police are searching for a suspected gunman after one person was killed and at least four others were injured in a shooting at a medical facility in Atlanta. Authorities have named the suspected shooter as 24-year-old Deion Patterson, and say he is considered armed and dangerous. Police said there had been no additional shots fired

Bodies are strewn on the doorstep of San Francisco’s main government building, contorted by the effects of fentanyl, a painkiller 100 times more potent than morphine. We’re two streets away from the headquarters of Twitter, in a city district with more billionaires than anywhere on Earth, but this has become an open-air drug market. Trevor

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has said it is unlikely Joe Biden would “make it” to the end of a second term were he to be re-elected to the White House. Mr Biden, 80, announced he was running for re-election in 2024 on Tuesday. He is already the oldest president in history. By the end

Elon Musk has been ordered to be interviewed under oath to determine if he made specific statements about Tesla’s Autopilot feature after the carmaker threw their authenticity into doubt, saying the billionaire was often a target of online “deepfakes”. A judge in California made the tentative ruling after raising concerns that such arguments could be

It seems I have lost a bet. In the Rose Garden yesterday afternoon President Joe Biden replied with just one word – “yes” – when I asked him if he would run again. Many months ago my colleague and I bet on whether or not he’d go for a second term. My (flawed) logic –

Twitter has mistakenly verified an explicit, fake account claiming to be linked to Disney. The account, which has the handle @DisneyJuniorUK, was spotted with a gold verification tick on Monday, before it was later suspended by Twitter. “No f****** way,” the account tweeted after realising it had been assigned a gold tick. Twitter’s press office

Joe Biden is set to announce he will run for a second term as US president next week, according to US media. Mr Biden’s advisers are planning to launch his re-election campaign as soon as next Tuesday, three sources familiar with the plans have told Sky News’ US partner network NBC News. The 80-year-old president’s

Donald Trump has released a second collection of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as the 2024 presidential race heats up. The surreal pieces of digital art depict the former president as George Washington, a chess piece and a lion wrangler… but not at the same time. A total of 47,000 NFTs were made available and cost $99

Elon Musk has said he plans to create a “TruthGPT” to counter what he claims is liberal bias shown by a popular chatbot. The billionaire Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX owner told Fox News his alternative to OpenAI’s ChatGPT would be a “maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe”. Musk also

SpaceX will launch its Starship rocket system for the first time today. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued Elon Musk‘s company with a licence to put its most powerful rocket system through its paces, saying it met all safety and environmental requirements. The Starship rocket is due to blast off for its debut orbital

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The tech consultant charged with the killing of Cash App founder Bob Lee planned the attack, prosecutors have claimed. Nima Momeni allegedly drove the 43-year-old victim to a secluded spot in San Francisco and stabbed him over a dispute apparently related to the suspect’s sister. The motion to detain the 38-year-old without bail is the