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Donald Trump has broken his silence on the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny – but avoided casting blame on President Vladimir Putin. Mr Trump, who drew criticism for praising the Russian ruler during his presidency, spoke out in a post on his social media platform Truth Social. The former US president wrote on

Today is Julian Assange’s last chance to stop UK officials extraditing him to the US. It has been almost 12 years since the WikiLeaks founder, now 52, stepped into the Ecuadorian embassy in London to evade arrest. Over the next two days, the High Court will hear his final appeal against being sent to the

Donald Trump is giving a “green light” to Republicans in Congress to block extra US funding for Ukraine, Nancy Pelosi has claimed. Describing Mr Trump as “grotesque”, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives also said he is “chummy” with Vladimir Putin, who she described as “just a very evil person”. A new US

Renowned US skier Catherine ‘Kasha’ Rigby has died in an avalanche in Kosovo, her fiancee has said. Rigby, 54, known as Kasha, died on Tuesday at Brezovica mountain resort in Kosovo, Magnis Wofe Murray said in a message response in Facebook. Mr Murray said on Saturday: “We were to be married in September. Now I’m

Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce has donated $100,000 (£79,000) to two surviving victims of a fatal mass shooting during his team’s Super Bowl victory parade. Representatives for the NFL star confirmed to Today on NBC – the US partner of Sky News – that his Eighty-Seven and Running foundation made two $50,000 (£40,000) donations

For the self-styled “King of New York”, the crown has slipped – and how. Donald Trump made his money and reputation in the New York real estate business, propelling him to celebrity and to the White House in 2016. As his property portfolio towered high, so did Donald Trump – the brand. It, and he,

Former US president Donald Trump has been fined $354.9m after a civil fraud trial in New York. The judge also banned Trump from running businesses in New York for three years. His sons, Eric and Donald Jr, received similar bans for two years. Trump and the Trump Organisation were also banned from applying for loans

US officials say they have disrupted a hacking network linked to Russian intelligence services. They say the hackers – believed to be from the secretive hacking arm of Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (better known as the GRU) – gained access to more than 1,000 personal and small business internet routers in the US and around

Parents of shooting victims are using AI technology to recreate the voices of their children in a bid to get US politicians to strengthen firearms laws. A website, where members of the public can hear six voices, states the victims “have a chance to speak again” after violence “stole their voices and ended their dreams”.

A trial date has been set in Donald Trump’s New York hush-money case. Jury selection will begin on Monday 25 March, a judge ruled today, turning down requests for a delay from Trump’s lawyers. The case centres on years-old accusations that Trump sought to bury stories about extramarital affairs that emerged during his 2016 presidential

One person has been killed and 21 others were injured, including eight children, after a shooting at the end of the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade. The team and their supporters had been celebrating the win against the San Francisco 49ers following Sunday’s American football showpiece event in Las Vegas. The barrage of

A car has crashed into an A&E department in Texas – killing one person and injuring five others. A child is in a life-threatening condition after the vehicle smashed into the lobby of the emergency room at St David’s North Austin Medical Centre shortly after 5.30pm on Tuesday. The driver received CPR but died at

More than a foot of snow fell over northeastern parts of the US as a powerful, fast-moving storm swept across the area. Parts of New York City and New England saw heavy snow and winds of up to 60mph as the storm – named the Nor’easter – arrived on Tuesday morning. As of midday, the

Robert F Kennedy Jr has apologised to his family over a Super Bowl advertisement, made in support of his presidential bid, that closely resembled one broadcast by his uncle, President John F Kennedy, in 1960. The 30-second advert, which cost an estimated $7m (£5.5m), featured a shortened version of the Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy For Me

Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to extend a delay in his trial for attempting to overturn the result of the 2020 US election, arguing he is immune from prosecution. The former president’s lawyers have filed an emergency appeal asking the justices to pause a ruling made by a three-judge panel of the federal

A woman wearing a trench coat was shot dead by two off-duty police officers after she opened fire inside a Texas church run by celebrity priest Joel Osteen. Worshippers at the Lakewood megachurch in Houston ran to find safety after the violence began shortly before a 2pm Spanish service on Sunday. Two people were injured

It is clearly bad for NATO security that the potential next president of the United States has said he would encourage attacks on allies that fail to meet a core defence spending target. But it is surely as much – or even greater – a challenge for the alliance that two-thirds of its 31 member

NATO has criticised comments made by Donald Trump at a campaign event – claiming they “put American and European soldiers at increased risk”. The former US president had said he would let Russia “do whatever the hell they want” to members of the alliance that don’t pay enough for defence. At a rally in South

“Not worth a bucket of warm piss”. John Nance Garner’s words are the most famous assessment of the office of vice president of the United States. “Cactus Jack” Garner’s words have often been bowdlerised to “warm spit” but there’s no denying he was in a position to know. He served Franklin Delano Roosevelt as VP

The White House has said “gratuitous remarks” about Joe Biden’s memory are “wrong and inaccurate” after a report called the president’s mental capacity into question. Ian Sams, a spokesman for the White House legal counsel’s office, hit back after special counsel Robert Hur’s ruling on the president’s handling of classified documents described his memory as