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Kamala Harris has accused Donald Trump of thinking only of “service to himself” after the former president’s campaign filmed at a military cemetery. Mr Trump has already hit back with videos from relatives of fallen soldiers he honoured in a wreath-laying ceremony on Monday, the third anniversary of the Afghanistan withdrawal. The row began when

Police searching for a couple who went missing from a nudist resort in California have discovered human remains under a home. The human remains were found in bags under a concrete bunker and were not immediately identified, officials said on Friday. Earlier on Friday the next-door neighbour of Stephanie Menard, 73, and her husband, Daniel,

One of the doctors charged in connection with the death of Friends star Matthew Perry is set to plead guilty. Perry was found dead at his home in Los Angeles, aged 54, on 28 October last year. The actor had been taking ketamine six to eight times a day before he died, according to court

Donald Trump has threatened to imprison Mark Zuckerberg if the Facebook founder does “anything illegal” to influence the upcoming presidential election. The former president made the claim in a new book, titled Save America, which is a collection of pictures and anecdotes from his presidential campaigns and term in office. Next to a photograph of

Donald Trump is selling a new collection of digital trading cards, and offering supporters a physical version with a piece of the suit he wore for the debate against Joe Biden that led to the US president quitting the White House race. Mr Trump announced the America First collection in a video posted to his

Police hunting for a murder suspect found him after he fell through the ceiling. Around a month after the shooting of Troy Cunningham, in April, in Memphis, Tennessee, federal officers in the US issued an arrest warrant for Deario Wilkerson. On 26 August, officers travelled to a home, also in Memphis, where they suspected the

Donald Trump has confirmed he will debate Kamala Harris on 10 September, while the vice president has agreed to her first joint interview since Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 election. The former president has been flip-flopping on whether he will debate the Democrat nominee after initially confirming he would, asking “why am I doing

Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Donald Trump has signalled his support for a free Ukraine and said he wants to stop the war with Russia. Presidential candidate Mr Trump previously said he would let Russia “do whatever the hell they want” to members of NATO that don’t pay enough for defence and has threatened to withdraw the

Donald Trump has promised to release thousands of documents linked to the assassination of John F Kennedy, after his presidential campaign was endorsed by JFK’s nephew. Robert F Kennedy Jr, also known as RFK Jr, was his rival in the race for the White House. But he suspended his campaign on Friday and joined Mr

An emotional Joe Biden wiped away tears as he prepared to deliver a farewell speech to his party’s members. Ahead of what’s been billed as the outgoing president’s swansong, Mr Biden was introduced to the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago by his daughter Ashley. A visibly moved Mr Biden was greeted by

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

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

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

Google’s freshly updated Pixel range has been revealed at Made by Google 2024 – the tech giant’s annual hardware launch. The phones, artificial intelligence, and earbuds have all had makeovers, but one smartwatch update is groundbreaking. Loss of Pulse Detection The Pixel Watch, Google’s smartwatch, has a new Loss of Pulse Detection feature that uses

“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.

Elon Musk is set to interview Donald Trump on the social media platform X. Mr Musk teased the “live conversation” with Mr Trump, saying it would be “unscripted” and therefore “highly entertaining”. The former US president – whose account on X (when it was known as Twitter) was suspended in 2021 after his supporters stormed

US President Joe Biden has revealed he dropped out of the race for the White House because Democrats felt his candidacy was “going to hurt” their chances of being re-elected. The 81-year-old abandoned his campaign in July after months of speculation about his age and his fitness to serve another four years. Concerns increased among