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US President Joe Biden will return to the campaign trail next week following his COVID diagnosis, the Democrat campaign chair has said. Mr Biden was forced to pull out of a speech after contracting COVID-19 this week, as pressure on him to step aside from the race to become president ramped up. Mr Biden has
Donald Trump supporters are wearing pretend ear bandages to the Republican convention in solidarity with him after an assassination attempt on the former president. Mr Trump has been wearing a patch over his ear since the shooting in Pennsylvania on Saturday. Several attendees at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee were seen with similar white
Donald Trump has announced Ohio senator, JD Vance, who once compared him to Hitler, as his running mate for November’s US election. But who really is the 39-year-old former venture capitalist and now potential future vice president? On this episode of the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson speaks to Sky’s US correspondent James Matthews, plus
Within minutes, what should have been a regular rally for Donald Trump quickly spiraled into a deadly assassination attempt in Pennsylvania. Using videos from the ground and aerial imagery, Sky News details what we know about the security efforts before and during the attack. Our analysis found police vehicles were parked as close as 20m/65ft
A judge in Florida has dismissed the criminal case relating to classified documents that were found at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Mr Trump had been accused of illegally holding onto classified documents. It represents another major legal victory as the Republican seeks a return to the White House. Florida-based US District Aileen Cannon, who was
They save the Oval Office address for serious times – conflict, typically. On both counts – serious and conflict – a president’s prime-time appearance seemed appropriate. This was a Joe Biden presentation on the gravity of the current situation, eyeballing an American audience on attritional politics. Phrases like “political battlefield” and “killing field” offered an