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Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has claimed it was hacked by Iran in June. This was close to the time when the Republican presidential candidate was selecting his vice president pick for the upcoming US election. News website Politico said it had received emails in July from an anonymous source offering authentic documents from inside Mr

Halfway through Donald Trump’s news conference, one of his aides posted on X a montage of TV screens broadcasting it live. “Wall to wall. Kamala Harris can’t do this,” he wrote. Once, it was a boast that Team Trump didn’t have to make, but the visibility contest has changed. As the new Democratic ticket enjoys

Legendary Hollywood producer and agent Jay Kanter has died at the age of 97. Kanter represented some of the biggest names ever to appear on the silver screen, including Marilyn Monroe and Marlon Brando, who became a life-long friend. A spokesperson for Independent Artist Group said Kanter died peacefully of natural causes at his home

Google illegally maintained an online search monopoly, a US court has said, in one of the biggest rulings against the company’s market dominance. The tech giant has been successfully sued in federal court by the US Justice Department and states which argued it remained the most used internet search engine by paying smartphone makers billions

The family of a teacher not included in a landmark prisoner swap between Russia and the West have demanded “immediate action” from US President Joe Biden. Some two dozen people from countries including Russia, the US, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway and Belarus were involved in the biggest exchange between the West and Moscow since the

YouTube star MrBeast has acknowledged that he used inappropriate language early in his online career. MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, has been accused of making racist comments, while his long-time collaborator was alleged to have made inappropriate comments to minors. The 26-year-old’s YouTube career is reportedly worth $700m (£545m), with his content mainly

Donald Trump has questioned the racial identity of vice president Kamala Harris, asking “is she Indian or is she black?” – while in an interview with a black journalist. The Republican nominee’s remarks drew gasps from the audience at a convention hosted by the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago. He said: “I’ve known

US vice president Kamala Harris is now the only candidate seeking the presidential nomination, after a deadline passed with no one else qualifying. Some 99% of delegates signed Ms Harris’s nominating petition, according to the Democratic National Committee. It cements her position as the Democratic frontrunner for the 5 November election after President Joe Biden

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

Former president Barack Obama told Kamala Harris he “couldn’t be prouder” as he endorsed her to replace Joe Biden as the Democratic candidate for the US election. Mr Obama had so far remained quiet after other top Democrats gave the US vice president their backing in the days after Mr Biden pulled out of the

Donald Trump could have been hit by shrapnel rather than a bullet during his attempted assassination, the director of the FBI has suggested. Thomas Crooks, 20, tried to assassinate the former president at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on 13 July. Mr Trump dropped to the floor after a bullet appeared to narrowly miss his

This was a president with six months left in office, and yet, it was a farewell address in all but name. It felt odd, entirely in keeping with the denouement of Joe Biden‘s demise – a president dragged kicking and screaming to the exit. The set-piece address was given the Oval Office treatment, normally reserved

The director of the Secret Service says the assassination attempt on Donald Trump was the “most significant operational failure” in decades. Ms Cheatle told the House of Representatives Oversight and Accountability Committee she took “full responsibility for any security lapse”. The shooting at an outdoor campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, wounded Trump’s right ear, killed

It was 1.46pm in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, when President Joe Biden posted a letter on his personal account on the social media site X announcing he would be withdrawing from the presidential race. By 2.13pm he had sent another post, this time endorsing Kamala Harris to replace him as the Democratic Party’s nominee. It took

One week on, almost to the hour, Donald Trump received a hero’s welcome back to the campaign trail in Michigan. His security detail reinforced, the first rally since the attempted assassination taking place indoors. “I stand before you only by the grace of Almighty God. That’s true. I shouldn’t be here. I shouldn’t be here,”