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Donald Trump’s decision to hold a rally at Madison Square Garden, in the heart of Manhattan, nine days before US voters go to the polls has been compared to the 1939 pro-Nazi German American Bund. Is this a fair comparison? 👉 Listen to Sky News Daily on your podcast app 👈 On this episode of

With just 11 days to go until the US election, Sky’s dedicated team of correspondents goes on the road to gauge what voters in key swing states make of the presidential candidates. 👉 Listen to Sky News Daily on your podcast app 👈 Mark Stone is in Michigan, where Arab-American voters are a key demographic

Rock icon Bruce Springsteen has warned Donald Trump wants to be an “American tyrant” as he backed Kamala Harris in the race to the White House. Performing at a rally for the Democratic candidate, Springsteen used time between his numbers to argue Ms Harris will protect democracy and fight for women’s reproductive rights. He said

Israel will be sending a delegation to Doha to discuss a ceasefire deal for Gaza, as the US secretary of state was greeted by Qatar’s Emir today. Israel’s delegation will be arriving in Doha on Sunday, a spokesperson for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said. It will join Qatari officials – who have been key

If there is a ground zero for US election trauma, it’s probably Georgia. It’s the state that gave us the election interference case, the Donald Trump mugshot, and his telephone call to the secretary of state asking for more votes. The Republican nominee is still among those facing prosecution – although the case has been

Kuwait has withdrawn approval for the popular video game Call of Duty, which features the appearance of the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. The Middle East nation has not acknowledged the effective banning of the game – which is a key offering of Microsoft-owned developer Activision and is due to be released on Friday. Call

With just two weeks remaining before the US 2024 presidential election, the main players were out campaigning in key battleground states to sway the vote in their party’s favour. Kamala Harris said her team is prepared to challenge Donald Trump if he tried to prematurely declare victory in the race. In an interview with Sky

Donald Trump’s microphone cut out for almost 20 minutes during a campaign event in Detroit, Michigan, leaving the Republican presidential candidate visibly irritated. With just over two weeks to go before the US election on 5 November, the 78-year-old was addressing the crowd on Friday evening and saying how he “loves” the key battleground state

There were two planned executions in the US on Thursday – one was halted over questions of the suspect’s guilt and the other went ahead after the death row inmate asked to be killed. The Texas Supreme Court stopped the scheduled execution of Robert Roberson, who was convicted of killing his two-year-old daughter in 2002.

Donald Trump has outdone himself.  His rhetoric has long been extreme but, in campaign remarks as it heads towards a close, it’s more so. Consider the direct quotes from his “enemy within” interview on Fox News on 13 October. Asked about “bureaucrats undermining you” in a second term, he replied: “We have two enemies: we

Elon Musk has donated $75m (£58m) to a campaign group he set up to support Donald Trump’s presidential bid. The donation to America PAC, which was made in several payments over the summer, has been revealed in new campaign finance disclosures. Around $72m (£56m) of the $75m (£58m) has already been spent by the group

Barack Obama’s message to “the brothers” late last week was blunt. “I’m here to speak some truths, if you don’t mind,” the former president told a group of black voters. “My understanding based on reports I’m getting from campaigns and communities is that we have not yet seen the same kind of energy and turnout

Actor Jeremy Strong has said Donald Trump calling those involved with his new film The Apprentice “human scum” is “all the more reason” cinemagoers should go and see it. Ahead of the UK release of the biopic which depicts the presidential candidate’s rise as a New York property developer back in the 1970s, Strong told

Donald Trump has joked about being shot during a meeting with a couple whose serviceman son died in Afghanistan. With just three weeks to go until the US election, the Republican presidential nominee continued on the campaign trail at a “town hall” event in Oaks, Pennsylvania. On stage with South Dakota Republican governor Kristi Noem,

Footage has emerged of a Georgia sheriff calling police when a Burger King restaurant allegedly messed up his order. The incident was caught on bodycam and shows Craig Owens Sr summoning deputies to the outlet in Cobb County – located in the Atlanta metro area. It happened in March 2023, but the footage has just

President Biden has told people in Florida affected by two major hurricanes in recent weeks he knows “how devastating it is to lose your home”. He told reporters his home was struck by lightning “several years ago” and the things he missed most were “my daughter’s drawings… All the family photographs, all the albums, all

It’s less than a month to go until the US election, and Sky News’ team of US correspondents have been reporting on the campaign trail across the country. Martha Kelner is in the swing state of Arizona, where early voting is under way. Abortion is a key issue here, and as well as their presidential

Barack Obama has urged black men to back Kamala Harris in the US election, saying reports of low support for the vice president in the community are “not acceptable”. Ahead of a campaign speech in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the former US president told staff and volunteers at a field office about his concerns in the November

Here in the UK, politicians are fixated with the level of the national debt. They fret about the fact that it is now knocking on for 100% of UK gross domestic product (GDP). They incorporate it into their fiscal rules, compelling them to get it falling (even if they rarely succeed in practice). So you

Donald Trump has not played golf since an apparent attempt on his life and reportedly will not do so again until after November’s presidential election. The former president, 78, is an avid golfer but has been told that federal agents were not satisfied he could be well enough protected if he were to play, Sky