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Donald Trump’s announcement that he wants to “develop” Gaza and turn it into the “Riveria of the Middle East” has been described as “absurd” and “entirely unrealistic”. During a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu late on Tuesday, Mr Trump proposed that the two million people living in Gaza could be moved

The US will take over Gaza and “own it”, Donald Trump has said. Speaking alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, he said the two million Palestinian people living in the territory, which he described as a “demolition site”, would go to “various domains”. Asked about deploying US troops to fill a

China has, as expected, hit back at Donald Trump’s imposition of a 10% tariff on its exports to the United States. Beijing has slapped levies of between 10-15% on a range of energy products that imports from the US. But what has surprised observers – particularly when Mr Trump kicked off the trade war over

Both Canada and Mexico have agreed to strengthen border security with the United States in return for a 30-day pause in tariffs. President Trump announced on Sunday he was imposing 25% taxes on goods from his country’s northern and southern neighbours. Mexico was first to reach a deal with the White House. Its president, Claudia

Bill Gates says he believes he would have been diagnosed with a form of autism if he had grown up in this era. The Microsoft co-founder, who is one of the world’s richest people, makes the observation in his memoir: Source Code: My Beginnings – which will be released on Tuesday. In an excerpt shared

Donald Trump is set to speak to the leaders of Canada and Mexico later but warned them against retaliating to his tariffs, saying: “We can play the game all they want.” The US leader has announced that he is imposing 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico. The two countries then hit back with

Donald Trump claims this tariff gut-punch at his three largest trading partners is just a matter of common sense. They in turn are imploring him to see reason, with Mexico and China calling for dialogue and cooperation. Follow live updates: Trump ignites trade war Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau said on Saturday night – as

President Donald Trump has signed an order imposing steep tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico and China, risking a trade war and increased prices for American consumers. Mr Trump has declared an economic emergency in order to place duties of 25% on goods from Mexico and Canada, and 10% on all imports from China. But

The Black Hawk helicopter which collided with a passenger plane above Washington DC was training for a hypothetical doomsday scenario at the time, according to US officials. Three soldiers inside the military aircraft were killed as well as 64 people aboard the American Airlines jet. The scenario involved practising the evacuation of high-ranking US officials,

The name of one of the three soldiers killed in the plane crash in Washington is not being released. The army identified two of the soldiers killed when an American Airlines jet and a military helicopter collided mid-air as Staff Sergeant Ryan Austin O’Hara and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Loyd Eaves. However, it made

👉 Follow Trump 100 on your podcast app 👈 As a passenger plane and a military helicopter collide above Washington’s Potomac River, President Trump has faced criticism after blaming Democrat diversity policies for the incident. Sky News’ US correspondents Mark Stone, Martha Kelner and James Matthews assess how Trump responded to the first big test

Sean “Diddy” Combs was accused in a new criminal indictment of trafficking at least three women in a 20-year-long sexual abuse scheme. Prosecutors said on Thursday that the rapper – also known as P Diddy and Puff Daddy – transported three female victims along with commercial sex workers across state lines and internationally. One of

Donald Trump has signed an executive order to open a migrant detention centre at Guantanamo Bay. Speaking before making the act official, Mr Trump said that thousands of migrants who cannot be deported to their home countries will be held at the complex, on the island of Cuba. “I’m also signing an executive order to

Lord Mandelson says calling Donald Trump a “danger to the world” in 2019 was “ill-judged and wrong”. The former Labour minister has been named as the next UK ambassador to the US, although there have been questions about whether President Trump will accept him. Speaking to Fox News, Lord Mandelson walked back his criticisms from

Donald Trump is aggressively pushing forward with plans to shrink the US government by offering eight months’ pay to federal employees who quit their jobs. They have until 6 February to decide whether to accept the deal, according to a memo from the Office of Personnel Management. The US government’s human resources agency also warned

A US company’s prototype jet has broken the sound barrier in a demonstration it hopes will pave the way for a successor to the Concorde. Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 is the first civilian aircraft to achieve the feat since the British-French supersonic airliner, which was retired in 2003. The XB-1 broke the sound barrier for the

Donald Trump thinks the Chinese startup DeepSeek, which claims it has a technical advantage over US rivals, should be “a wakeup call” for American AI firms. DeepSeek says its artificial intelligence models are comparable with those from US giants, like OpenAI which is behind ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, but potentially a fraction of the cost. That

The chairman of a coalition, which successfully lobbied Arab-Americans to vote for Donald Trump, has slammed the new president for his weekend comments on Gaza. “Arab-Americans for Trump firmly rejects President Donald J Trump’s suggestion to remove – voluntarily or forcibly – Palestinians in Gaza to Egypt and Jordan,” said Dr Bishara Bahbah, national chair

👉 Follow Trump 100 on your podcast app 👈 President Trump says he and Keir Starmer “get along well” as he speaks to the British prime minister for the first time since his inauguration. Sky’s US correspondents James Matthews, Martha Kelner and Mark Stone look at what it tells us about the “special relationship” under

Sir Keir Starmer and Donald Trump “stressed the importance of the close and warm ties” between their countries and “agreed to meet soon” in a phone call, Downing Street has said. During the conversation on Sunday, the prime minister congratulated the president on his inauguration and paid tribute to his “role in securing the landmark

Donald Trump has said he thinks Sir Keir Starmer has “done a very good job” so far and said the pair will speak over the phone “over the next 24 hours”. The US president said he and the prime minister “get along well” despite Sir Keir being “liberal, which is a little bit different from

Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s controversial choice for US defence secretary, has been confirmed for the job. The 44-year-old ex-veteran and former Fox News host narrowly secured the top Pentagon post with vice president JD Vance casting the 51-50 tie-breaking vote. Three Republican senators – Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Mitch McConnell

The US State Department has ordered a freeze on new funding for almost all American foreign development assistance following an executive order issued by Donald Trump. Hours after taking office on Monday, the US president ordered a 90-day pause in US-funded global projects pending a review of their efficiency and to check they are consistent

US military aircraft have started flying detained migrants out of America on the orders of President Donald Trump. It comes as the White House released images of men whose hands and ankles were shackled being led on to a plane. Mr Trump‘s press secretary Karoline Leavitt posted the photos on X and declared: “Deportation flights

A US woman charged with murdering two of her children has lost her fight to avoid extradition from the UK. Kimberlee Singler’s nine-year-old daughter and seven-year-old son were found dead in a residential property in Colorado along with her 11-year-old daughter who was injured but alive, police said. Prosecutors allege Singler killed two of her

Donald Trump has ordered the release of thousands of classified files on the assassination of President John F Kennedy. The 1963 killing in Dallas is the source of one of the most well-known conspiracy theories of modern times. Lee Harvey Oswald was said to be the gunman, but was shot dead himself two days after

Donald Trump has said that attacks on police officers during the January 6 riots were “minor incidents”. In his first sit-down interview since being inaugurated on Monday, recorded in the Oval Office, Mr Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity most of those who were jailed over the US Capitol riots were “absolutely innocent”. As part

More than 30,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes north of Los Angeles after a new wildfire broke out in California. The latest blaze – dubbed the Hughes Fire – started late on Wednesday morning near Lake Castaic, around 40 miles from the Eaton and Palisades wildfires that devastated parts of LA earlier

Donald Trump has hit out at the bishop of Washington after she lectured him on respecting immigrants and LGBT+ citizens during a televised church service. The president remained straight-faced alongside his vice president JD Vance as bishop Mariann Edgar Budde addressed him at Tuesday’s interfaith prayer service at Washington National Cathedral, telling him to “have

Donald Trump has attempted to negotiate a potential TikTok sale on live television, in what was supposed to be an announcement about investment in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. The US president was holding a news conference about a $500bn (£405bn) investment in AI infrastructure in the country, but was questioned about a range of topics.

Donald Trump has signed an order to remove the US from the World Health Organization (WHO), citing its perceived mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic and “unfair” payments as a driving force. The president singled out the WHO executive order as a “big one” as he signed it alongside 100+ others upon his return to the

Donald Trump has signed a raft of executive orders within hours of returning to the White House as he reversed some of his predecessors Joe Biden’s policies. The new president told supporters at an inauguration parade event at a sports arena in Washington DC that he would revoke “80 destructive and radical executive actions of

Donald Trump will become the 47th president of the United States today – marking an astonishing return to the White House for the businessman and former reality TV star. Today’s inauguration comes after a tumultuous four years out of office that saw assassination attempts and several serious legal cases against the 78-year-old. Mr Trump will