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The man chosen by Donald Trump to be defence secretary has refused to answer Sky News questions about whether he has a problem with alcohol and women. Pete Hegseth has attracted fresh controversy over claims of excessive drinking, financial mismanagement and improper behaviour. An article in the New Yorker magazine reported the allegations led to

Donald Trump has filed a motion to dismiss the hush money case in which he was convicted due to his victory in the US presidential election. In May, a New York jury found Mr Trump guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records to commit election fraud. It was the first time a US president

Donald Trump has said there would be “hell to pay” unless the hostages held in Gaza were released ahead of his inauguration. Writing on his Truth Social platform, the president-elect said that if his demand was not met: “Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied history

US rugby star Ilona Maher is moving to the UK to join the Bristol Bears. The rugby sevens player, who boasts 3.3 million followers on TikTok and 4.6 million on Instagram, announced her move to the Premiership Women’s Rugby league on Monday in a video filmed in Ashton Gate Stadium, the home of the Bears.

US President-elect Donald Trump has nominated investment banker Warren Stephens to be his ambassador to the UK. Mr Trump made the announcement in a post on social media, calling him “one of the most successful businessmen in the country”. Mr Stephens is chairman, president, and CEO of Stephens Inc, a privately owned financial services company

Donald Trump’s pick for health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr once labelled the agency responsible for vaccine rollouts in the US a “fascist” enterprise and accused it of knowingly hurting children. Mr Kennedy, a vaccine sceptic, also compared what he saw as a widespread conspiracy to hide harms from the US’ child vaccination programme to

👉 Listen to Sky News Daily on your podcast app 👈 Elon Musk and Donald Trump have a plan for America… to get people making babies. The tech billionaire, Donald Trump’s soon-to-be government efficiency tsar, is a proponent of pronatalism, an emerging movement in US politics that says US citizens should be having more babies

The alliance between Donald Trump and Elon Musk framed the 2024 election and their bond has only deepened since. Musk has been a regular fixture at the president-elect’s Florida mansion and the pair have introduced their families. He has been privy to phone conversations with world leaders, consulted with Trump on his cabinet picks and

Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York and personal lawyer to Donald Trump, has pleaded poverty in a US court, telling a judge he has no car, credit card, or cash. Guiliani, 80, was appearing in federal court in the city before a January trial to decide which assets he must hand over to

In winning the White House, he avoids the so-called ‘big house’. Whether or not prison was a prospect awaiting Donald Trump is a moot point now, as he now enjoys the protection of the presidency. Politically, and legally, he has played a blinder. Image: Special Counsel Jack Smith has dropped his case against Donald Trump.

The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial has postponed the sentencing scheduled for next week and has granted permission for his lawyers to seek dismissal of the case. State Judge Juan Merchan ruled after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office said in a court filing earlier this week that it wouldn’t

Within hours of taking office, president-elect Donald Trump plans to begin rolling out policies including large-scale deportations, according to his transition team. Sky News partner network NBC News has spoken with more than half a dozen people familiar with the executive orders that his team plans to enact. One campaign official said changes are expected

Donald Trump ally Matt Gaetz has withdrawn his name from consideration to be the next US attorney general. “I had excellent meetings with Senators yesterday, I appreciate their thoughtful feedback – and the incredible support of so many. While the momentum was strong, it is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to

Google must sell its Chrome browser to restore competition in the online search market, US prosecutors have argued. The proposed breakup has been floated in a 23-page document filed by the US Justice Department. It also calls for lawmakers to impose restrictions designed to prevent its Android smartphone software from favouring its own search engine.

Donald Trump has chosen former WWE chief executive Linda McMahon to be his secretary of state for education – a department he has vowed to abolish. Mrs McMahon, 76, swapped her and her husband’s wrestling empire for a career in politics in the early 2000s – twice running for the Senate before focusing her efforts

Donald Trump has chosen TV host Dr Oz to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Celebrity heart surgeon Dr Mehmet Oz rose to prominence working on Oprah Winfrey’s leading daytime television show before getting his own long-running series. But how has he gone from TV personality to Donald Trump’s choice for overseeing

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has successfully performed another launch of its Starship rocket in front of President-elect Donald Trump, but the test flight did not go perfectly. The 400ft (122m) high rocket system, designed to land astronauts on the moon and ferry crews to Mars, lifted off from Boca Chica, Texas. The first stage, called Super

Google’s AI chatbot Gemini has told a user to “please die”. The user asked the bot a “true or false” question about the number of households in the US led by grandparents, but instead of getting a relevant response, it answered: “This is for you, human. You and only you. “You are not special, you

Police in the US have arrested two teenagers after a high-speed chase ended with a stolen vehicle crashing and catching fire. The car hit a kerb and struck a tree before bursting into flames in Colorado, after officers from Larimer County in the US state performed what is known as a precision immobilisation technique (PIT)

As the two most powerful countries in the world, the relationship between the United States and China is the most consequential of all bilateral ties. Any change in interactions and behaviour by either side does not just impact security, economic activity and trade in Washington and Beijing, but also affects the rest of the planet.