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Barack Obama has warned the sequel is “usually worse” than the first movie as he and Michelle Obama tried to rally their party in the race against Donald Trump. Speaking on the second night of the Democratic National Convention, Mr Obama said the country does not need another four years of “bluster” and “chaos”. “We

The US government has confirmed Donald Trump’s claim that Iran tried to hack his presidential campaign and said Tehran has also targeted the Biden-Harris operation. In a joint statement issued on Monday, the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said it had seen “increasingly aggressive

It feels like a very long time ago that Joe Biden was the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee. In fact, it’s only four weeks since he stepped aside, paving the way for his running mate, Kamala Harris, to take centre stage. Instead of closing out the Democratic National Convention (DNC), a four-day gathering of thousands of

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’

Singer Bebe Rexha has said she was threatened and “mentally abused” by an airport worker for being Albanian. The 34-year-old posted a tearful video on Instagram, with the caption: “I’ve been threatened because I thought the security agent was Albanian. “I spoke to him in Albanian asking where to get my ticket and now he

The first UK military satellite which can capture daytime images and videos of the Earth’s surface has successfully launched into space. The “cutting-edge” satellite – named Tyche – is part of a Ministry of Defence (MoD) programme that aims to support military operations as well as natural disaster and environmental monitoring, mapping information development, and

Next week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago will be characterised by a mood of relief among delegates. The switch of candidate from the aged Joe Biden to his vice president Kamala Harris has put the party back in contention in this year’s general election, when it seemed set to be flattened by Donald Trump’s re-election

The tragic last hours before Friends actor Matthew Perry died from a drug overdose have been laid bare in new court documents. Perry was found dead at his home in Los Angeles, aged 54, on 28 October last year. The actor was taking ketamine six to eight times a day before he died, according to

A woman has been accused of trying to auction off Elvis Presley’s former home Graceland and defraud the singer’s family out of millions of dollars. Lisa Jeanine Findley, 53, was arrested and charged with mail fraud and aggravated identity theft, according to a criminal complaint. If convicted of the mail fraud charge, she could face

Kim Dotcom, who founded the globally popular file-sharing site Megaupload, will be extradited to the US from New Zealand. German-born Dotcom, who has New Zealand residency, has been fighting extradition since 2012 following an FBI-ordered raid on his Auckland mansion. He is charged with copyright infringement, money laundering and racketeering. US authorities say Dotcom –

Jordan Chiles has revealed her “devastation” at being stripped of her 2024 Paris Olympics bronze medal. The US gymnast was initially awarded fifth place after her floor routine on 5 August at the 2024 Paris Olympics, but was bumped up to third after an appeal. But in a dramatic twist, she was downgraded again after

Donald Trump is asking the judge in his New York hush money criminal case to delay his sentencing until after the November presidential election. Trump was found guilty on 30 May of falsifying business records to cover up his former lawyer Michael Cohen’s $130,000 payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. The offer was made

“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 US Department of Justice is considering breaking up Google, according to reports from Bloomberg, the New York Times and others. Last week, a federal court in the US ruled the tech giant had broken antitrust law by spending billions on creating an illegal monopoly and becoming the world’s default search engine. Read more: Google

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

“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.

Donald Trump’s interview with Elon Musk on the billionaire entrepreneur’s social media platform X was delayed by technical issues. The site showed that the page was “not available” shortly after the scheduled start time of 8pm Eastern Time (1am UK time) for some users, though more than 115,000 people appeared to have joined successfully. Musk

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

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has begun military drills amid the expectation it will retaliate against Israel over the killing of a senior Hamas member. The drills, which started on Friday, are ongoing in the western province of Kermanshah close to the border with Iraq to“enhance combat readiness and vigilance,” an armed forces official told Iran’s official

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