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👉 Listen to Sky News Daily on your podcast app 👈 With just two days until election day, join our US correspondents on the road. Mark Stone and James Matthews discuss how the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, could influence the result. Stone attends one of Musk’s million-dollar-a-day giveaways, which have become embroiled

With three days until election day, both sides are throwing everything behind winning over those last few undecided voters in swing states. Pennsylvania is one of the bigger prizes – Kamala Harris is scheduled to do five events in the state on Monday alone. Sky News international affairs editor Dominic Waghorn is also there, speaking

There are two main differences between election coverage in the UK and the United States. Last July, at 10pm, Sky News’ exit poll graphic predicted a Labour landslide and a massive defeat for the Conservatives. Confirmation of this forecast was a long time coming since constituency results are only announced by local returning officers once

👉 Listen to Sky News Daily on your podcast app 👈 With just four days until polling day, join our US correspondents on the road as they examine the closing arguments from each campaign. James Matthews takes listeners inside Donald Trump’s Maddison Square Garden rally and finds out if controversial jokes by a support act

Elon Musk has been summoned to an emergency court hearing on Thursday over the $1m prizes he has been awarding registered voters in the swing state of Pennsylvania. The Tesla and X chief executive has been ordered by a judge in Philadelphia to address a civil case by the city’s top prosecutor to stop Mr

The cardinal rule surely is – say what you like about the candidate but don’t be seen to insult those who chose to vote for that candidate. Hillary Clinton learned that lesson in 2016 when she dismissed Donald Trump supporters as a “basket of deplorables”. She had sought, with remarkable clumsiness, to place Trump supporters

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,