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It’s been a mad few months, even by American political standards. After Trump’s criminal conviction in New York came Biden’s blunders at that debate, then Trump’s brush with an assassin’s bullet and then that dramatic switch for the Democrats from Biden to Harris. Events have jolted politics here and the Democratic Party’s remarkably smooth ‘switcheroo’

The Butler farm showground doesn’t necessarily feel like a place where history was made.  When I visited, dog walkers and morning exercisers shuffled through the morning dew, making use of the silence and emptiness of their community space, no longer a crime scene. It’s currently between marquee events, having just de-rigged the 76th Farm Show

One of the doctors accused over the ketamine-related death of troubled Friends star Matthew Perry wrote in a text: “I wonder how much this moron will pay”. The text was written by Salvador Plasencia, a medical doctor known as “Dr. P”, who is one of five defendants charged in relation to the actor’s death. Others

“That’s the ‘Roach’s Inn’,” Richie said, as we drove past a dilapidated motel. The Coaches’ Inn – it was the kind you see in the movies. “Dead bodies found in that place,” he said. I was in the car with Richie Armstrong and he was giving me a tour of his town. A boarded-up business

The world’s only self-driving taxi company has been forced to fix a fleet of cars after residents complained about their constant honking. Waymo’s autonomous cars arrived in a car park in San Francisco, California, a few weeks ago, where they wait between jobs. However, the cars were installed with an update that made them beep

A police officer in Ohio accused of fatally shooting a pregnant black woman has been charged with murder. Ta’Kiya Young, 21, was shot in the chest after being suspected of stealing bottles of alcohol from a supermarket last August. Her unborn daughter, who was due three months later, also died. On Tuesday, a grand jury

General Motors is being accused of collecting data about the “bad” habits of drivers and selling it on to insurers.  The state of Texas is suing the car company over the allegations, claiming it installed technology on more than 14 million vehicles to collect data about drivers. The lawsuit alleges GM – which manufactures brands

The FBI has told Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign it was the target of a “foreign actor influence operation”. In a statement, shared with Sky News’s US partner network NBC News, Ms Harris’s campaign said: “In July, the campaign legal and security teams were notified by the FBI that we were targeted by a foreign actor

“This interview will go down in history,” Donald Trump had written hours before his scheduled conversation with Elon Musk. Well, maybe, if anyone was able to actually listen to it. For the best part of an hour, millions of people tried to log on to Spaces, the part of X designed for live audio discussions.

Kamala Harris’s election campaign has said it raised $200m (£156m) in the week since she became a presidential candidate. The US vice president‘s deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty said 66% of the funds were raised from new donors, while the campaign has signed up 170,000 new volunteers. US President Joe Biden, 81, withdrew from the

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has told a crowd of Christians they won’t have to vote again if they vote for him in November, saying “we’ll have it fixed so good”. The former president, who faces federal and state prosecution for his alleged attempts to overturn the US election result in 2020, was attending an

A bullet hit Donald Trump’s ear in an assassination attempt, the FBI has confirmed, after its own director cast doubt on what caused the injury – fuelling anger and conspiracy theories. The statement follows ambiguous comments earlier in the week by Christopher Wray, which fuelled fresh tensions between the Republican presidential candidate and the law

Donald Trump’s running mate has defended comments in which he said the Democratic Party was run “by a bunch of childless cat ladies”. JD Vance’s remarks, from a 2021 Fox News interview, were reposted earlier this week by Friends star Jennifer Aniston. The actress used the clip to criticise his opposition to a law making

Audiences for Veep, the TV series broadcast on Sky, have shot up since Kamala Harris became the Democratic candidate for the White House. Like Selina Meyer, the fictional vice president in the show, she is closer than ever to becoming the first woman president. The prospect is tantalising for Harris but the omens are not

Donald Trump hosted Benjamin Netanyahu at his Florida resort as he dismissed reports of tensions between the pair and attacked Kamala Harris’s “disrespectful” comments about the Gaza war. The former US president welcomed the Israeli prime minister to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach for their first meeting since September 2020. The Republican presidential nominee

This is a truly extraordinary moment. It is shocking to watch. It’s hard to judge right now how it will reverberate and what the consequences for America and its fractious politics will be. But these are deeply anxious times. The cable news networks were carrying Donald Trump‘s speech live. It had just gone 6.15pm on

Joe Biden has mistakenly referred to Volodymyr Zelenskyy as “President Putin” at the NATO summit – just hours after his allies warned his chances of winning the US election are zero. The US president was speaking in Washington at the end of the three-day summit and made the error while he was introducing the Ukrainian

Joe Biden has pledged more support for Ukraine – including air defence systems – as he welcomed NATO member states to a Washington summit marking the organisation’s 75th anniversary. Dogged by rumours over his health, the US president delivered a forceful and determined speech in which he insisted the bloc was “more powerful than ever”.

Joe Biden’s has shown no symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, his doctor has explained in a letter released after reports claimed a specialist had visited the president several times in the past year. Concerns around the president’s health have risen since Mr Biden’s poor showing in his debate with Donald Trump. Democrats described his performance as

The cow flu virus that has spread through US dairy herds may have taken a “dangerous” step towards being able to infect humans through respiratory infections, scientists have warned. The H5N1 virus, more commonly found in birds, has so far been confirmed in cattle on more than 100 farms in 12 states, with inactivated fragments