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Kanye West’s Twitter account has been reinstated after an almost eight-month ban over offensive tweets. The rapper’s account now shows his last post from 1 December, a day prior to when his account was suspended on platform X – the new name owner Elon Musk has given Twitter. West, who legally changed his name to

A federal judge has rejected a $475m (£369m) defamation lawsuit brought by Donald Trump against CNN. The US news network described the former US president’s claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him as a “big lie”. The same phrase was used by Adolf Hitler to justify prejudice against Jewish people, and is

Donald Trump has told supporters at an influential campaign event in Iowa he is the only Republican candidate who can beat President Joe Biden. The former president took to the stage at the Lincoln Day Dinner with his main rival Ron DeSantis and several other candidates in the race to become the party’s nominee in

A police officer in Ohio has been sacked after he released a dog to attack a surrendering unarmed truck driver. Officer Ryan Speakman was dismissed with immediate effect, after he “did not meet the standards and expectations” of the force during the incident, the Circleville Police department has said. It comes after 23-year-old truck driver

The Federal Reserve – the US central bank known as the Fed – has recommenced its programme of interest rate increases. The rate has been increased by 0.25 percentage points in an effort to further bring down inflation. The Fed had decided to hold interest rates last month, after 10 consecutive rises, as inflation fell

Joe Biden’s dog bit members of the US Secret Service at least 10 times in a four-month period, records show, forcing one to go to hospital for treatment. Records released by the Department of Homeland Security show the US president’s pet, a purebred German Shepherd named Commander, attacked officers at least 10 times between October

A long-time Twitter user has given up the @X username following Elon Musk’s controversial rebrand. “Alls well that ends well,” said the account, which now goes by @x12345678998765. It has been on the platform since March 2007, less than a year after Twitter‘s initial launch. The account is based in San Francisco, California, the same

US presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis has been involved in a car crash. The Florida governor, who is running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, was involved in an accident in Tennessee on Tuesday but is uninjured, his spokesperson said. “This morning, the governor was in a car accident while traveling to an event in Chattanooga,

Sea surface temperatures of more than 38C (100.4F) have been recorded off the coast of Florida – potentially setting a new world record. The recording was captured by a buoy in Manatee Bay in the Florida Keys. It means the sea there was as warm as a hot tub – the standard temperature setting of

Elon Musk has said the Twitter name “does not make sense” as he rebrands the platform into an “everything app” called X. The world’s richest man has not been shy of putting his own stamp on the site he bought for $44bn (£38bn) last October and has now embarked on the most dramatic change in

Elon Musk has unveiled a rebranding of Twitter with a large X logo. The company’s chief executive Linda Yaccarino “tweeted” an image of the apparent new logo beamed on the side of its headquarters in San Francisco, California. “Lights. Camera. X!” she wrote. Twitter This content is provided by Twitter, which may be using cookies

Elon Musk says he could replace Twitter’s blue bird logo by Monday – as he pushes ahead with plans to rebrand the social network as X. In a series of posts on his account, the billionaire said he planned to “bid adieu” to the Twitter brand and “gradually, all the birds”. The Tesla and SpaceX

Kamala Harris said “extremists” want to “replace history with lies” after Florida’s educational standards changed the way slavery will be taught in schools. The vice president travelled to Jacksonville on Friday to condemn new guidelines, approved by the state’s board of education this week, which she said include instructions for middle school students saying some

Joe Biden has nominated a female admiral to lead the US navy – and if confirmed, she would be the first woman to head a military service branch of the Pentagon. Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the current vice chief of operations for the navy, would also become the first female member of the Joint Chiefs of

An eight-year-old girl badly burned when a Chicken McNugget fell on her leg has been awarded $800,000 (£623,000) compensation. Warning: Pictures of the burn are below It happened in 2019 as her mother pulled away from a drive-thru McDonald’s near Ford Lauderdale in Florida. The snack caused second-degree burns to Olivia Caraballo, who was four

Google is testing whether artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to write news articles – but insists it won’t replace journalists. A spokesperson for the search giant said it was in the “earliest stages of exploring ideas” for how the technology could enhance “work and productivity” in a newsroom. They cited coming up with headlines

Tesla has shared a new look of its upcoming Cybertruck vehicle – almost four years after it was announced. The unusual looking electric pick-up truck, first unveiled back in 2019, is nearing full production – and company boss Elon Musk has said deliveries should begin by the end of the year. He provided the update

The owner of Facebook has announced plans to make its version of the artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT free for researchers and companies to use. The latest version of Meta’s large language model, called LLaMa 2, will rival OpenAI’s GPT-4, which powers the chatbot app. The technology came to the fore last November after the

The Los Angeles County sheriff has said an incident where a police officer punched a woman twice in the face while she held her three-week-old baby was “completely unacceptable”.  Sheriff Robert Luna said in a news conference that he has sent the case to the county district attorney’s office, which will decide whether to file

President Joe Biden has described the US-UK relationship as “rock solid”, despite reported disagreements over Ukraine. Mr Biden told Prime Minister Rishi Sunak he “couldn’t be meeting with a closer friend and greater ally” as the pair met this morning in Downing Street. He joined the prime minister in the Downing Street garden at the