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An army veteran who received the world’s first whole-eye transplant has said he has been given “the gift of a second chance”. Aaron James, 47, from Arkansas in the US, lost his left eye and most of his face after an electrical cable touched the left side three years ago. He also lost his left

The mother of the Georgia shooting suspect called the school 30 minutes warning of an “extreme emergency” before he allegedly opened fire there, his aunt has claimed.  Colt Gray, 14, is accused of shooting dead two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in Winder, near Atlanta, on Wednesday. Another teacher and a further

Elon Musk is on track to become the world’s first trillionaire by 2027, according to a new global wealth report. Musk, 53, is currently the richest person in the world, with a net worth of $251bn (£191bn), according to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index. However, according to Informa Connect Academy’s findings, his wealth has been growing at

Former vice president and longtime Republican Dick Cheney has said he will vote for Kamala Harris in this year’s US election. The 83-year-old issued a statement announcing he will be backing the Democratic candidate because her Republican rival Donald Trump can “never be trusted with power again”. Mr Cheney has been an outspoken critic of

A judge has postponed the sentencing of Donald Trump in his hush money case until after the 5 November presidential election. Trump, the Republican nominee for president, had been due to be sentenced in the criminal case on 18 September. However, Manhattan Judge Juan M Merchan has now postponed that date to 26 November, writing

Hunter Biden, the son of US President Joe Biden, has pleaded guilty to federal tax charges. In a surprise move, the plea avoids a potentially embarrassing trial weeks before the presidential election. Hunter Biden, 54, had been set to stand trial on criminal charges of failing to pay $1.4m in taxes while allegedly spending lavishly

Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to a revised set of criminal charges over his alleged attempts to overturn the result of the 2020 election. The former president, who is the Republican candidate for this year’s presidential contest in November, faces four charges of using false claims of voter fraud to undermine the election results

Venezuela’s equivalent to Air Force One has been seized by US officials, who claim the luxury presidential jet was bought illegally and smuggled out of the country to get around US export control laws. The white Dassault Falcon 900EX, used by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores during state visits, was seized

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,

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

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

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

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