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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

Google’s freshly updated Pixel range has been revealed at Made by Google 2024 – the tech giant’s annual hardware launch. The phones, artificial intelligence, and earbuds have all had makeovers, but one smartwatch update is groundbreaking. Loss of Pulse Detection The Pixel Watch, Google’s smartwatch, has a new Loss of Pulse Detection feature that uses

“This interview will go down in history,” Donald Trump had written hours before his scheduled conversation with Elon Musk. Well, maybe, if anyone was able to actually listen to it. For the best part of an hour, millions of people tried to log on to Spaces, the part of X designed for live audio discussions.

Donald Trump’s interview with Elon Musk on the billionaire entrepreneur’s social media platform X was delayed by technical issues. The site showed that the page was “not available” shortly after the scheduled start time of 8pm Eastern Time (1am UK time) for some users, though more than 115,000 people appeared to have joined successfully. Musk

Elon Musk is set to interview Donald Trump on the social media platform X. Mr Musk teased the “live conversation” with Mr Trump, saying it would be “unscripted” and therefore “highly entertaining”. The former US president – whose account on X (when it was known as Twitter) was suspended in 2021 after his supporters stormed

US President Joe Biden has revealed he dropped out of the race for the White House because Democrats felt his candidacy was “going to hurt” their chances of being re-elected. The 81-year-old abandoned his campaign in July after months of speculation about his age and his fitness to serve another four years. Concerns increased among

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has claimed it was hacked by Iran in June. This was close to the time when the Republican presidential candidate was selecting his vice president pick for the upcoming US election. News website Politico said it had received emails in July from an anonymous source offering authentic documents from inside Mr

Celine Dion’s team has urged Donald Trump to think twice before using her Titanic film classic My Heart Will Go On again. The Oscar-winning song from the 1997 film was played during a presidential campaign rally in Montana. Dion’s management team released a statement on behalf of her and her record label saying the use

Halfway through Donald Trump’s news conference, one of his aides posted on X a montage of TV screens broadcasting it live. “Wall to wall. Kamala Harris can’t do this,” he wrote. Once, it was a boast that Team Trump didn’t have to make, but the visibility contest has changed. As the new Democratic ticket enjoys

Legendary Hollywood producer and agent Jay Kanter has died at the age of 97. Kanter represented some of the biggest names ever to appear on the silver screen, including Marilyn Monroe and Marlon Brando, who became a life-long friend. A spokesperson for Independent Artist Group said Kanter died peacefully of natural causes at his home

Google illegally maintained an online search monopoly, a US court has said, in one of the biggest rulings against the company’s market dominance. The tech giant has been successfully sued in federal court by the US Justice Department and states which argued it remained the most used internet search engine by paying smartphone makers billions

The family of a teacher not included in a landmark prisoner swap between Russia and the West have demanded “immediate action” from US President Joe Biden. Some two dozen people from countries including Russia, the US, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway and Belarus were involved in the biggest exchange between the West and Moscow since the

Donald Trump has questioned the racial identity of vice president Kamala Harris, asking “is she Indian or is she black?” – while in an interview with a black journalist. The Republican nominee’s remarks drew gasps from the audience at a convention hosted by the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago. He said: “I’ve known

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has told a crowd of Christians they won’t have to vote again if they vote for him in November, saying “we’ll have it fixed so good”. The former president, who faces federal and state prosecution for his alleged attempts to overturn the US election result in 2020, was attending an

A bullet hit Donald Trump’s ear in an assassination attempt, the FBI has confirmed, after its own director cast doubt on what caused the injury – fuelling anger and conspiracy theories. The statement follows ambiguous comments earlier in the week by Christopher Wray, which fuelled fresh tensions between the Republican presidential candidate and the law

Donald Trump’s running mate has defended comments in which he said the Democratic Party was run “by a bunch of childless cat ladies”. JD Vance’s remarks, from a 2021 Fox News interview, were reposted earlier this week by Friends star Jennifer Aniston. The actress used the clip to criticise his opposition to a law making

Donald Trump could have been hit by shrapnel rather than a bullet during his attempted assassination, the director of the FBI has suggested. Thomas Crooks, 20, tried to assassinate the former president at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on 13 July. Mr Trump dropped to the floor after a bullet appeared to narrowly miss his

This was a president with six months left in office, and yet, it was a farewell address in all but name. It felt odd, entirely in keeping with the denouement of Joe Biden‘s demise – a president dragged kicking and screaming to the exit. The set-piece address was given the Oval Office treatment, normally reserved

The director of the Secret Service says the assassination attempt on Donald Trump was the “most significant operational failure” in decades. Ms Cheatle told the House of Representatives Oversight and Accountability Committee she took “full responsibility for any security lapse”. The shooting at an outdoor campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, wounded Trump’s right ear, killed

Kamala Harris is in pole position to become the Democrats’ election pick after Joe Biden withdrew – but where does she stand on some of America’s key issues? Ukraine Ms Harris has met President Zelenskyy multiple times in the last few years and strongly supports the ongoing fight against Russia. She has rejected the idea