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It seems I have lost a bet. In the Rose Garden yesterday afternoon President Joe Biden replied with just one word – “yes” – when I asked him if he would run again. Many months ago my colleague and I bet on whether or not he’d go for a second term. My (flawed) logic –

He’s been asked so many times if he’ll run for president again; whether he’ll seek that second term. “It’s my intention…” is his stock answer. But tonight, on the eve of the day he is expected to formally announce, Joe Biden confirmed that intention to Sky News. “Are you going to run again, sir?” I

A Florida widow and her family are suing a cruise line for allegedly mishandling her husband’s dead body and storing it in a drinks cooler after he died on board a ship. Robert Jones’ body was stored inside a walk-in cooler normally used for drinks for nearly a week instead of a properly chilled morgue

An ex-employee at Walt Disney World in Florida has allegedly told police that he covertly shot videos up the skirts and dresses of more than 500 female guests at the theme park over the past six years. Jorge Diaz Vega, 26, worked at the Star Wars gift shop inside Disney’s Hollywood Studios theme park near

Women’s access to a widely used abortion pill in the US has been maintained by the Supreme Court during an ongoing legal battle over the drug. The justices agreed to stay or pause a lower court decision imposing restrictions on the availability of mifepristone during a challenge by anti-abortion groups to its federal regulatory approval.

The first images of Alec Baldwin on the set of Rust have emerged since the movie resumed filming following the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Baldwin is seen reprising his role as the main character after the involuntary manslaughter charge against him following the death of Ms Hutchins was formally dismissed. The images, shared

A Florida woman who spent her life savings on breast cancer treatment for her daughter won $2m (£1.6m) the day after she finished hospital care.  Geraldine Gimblet claimed the top prize in a $2m scratch card lottery. But when she went to buy the card, the shop assistant told her they didn’t have any left.

Joe Biden is set to announce he will run for a second term as US president next week, according to US media. Mr Biden’s advisers are planning to launch his re-election campaign as soon as next Tuesday, three sources familiar with the plans have told Sky News’ US partner network NBC News. The 80-year-old president’s

All criminal charges against actor Alec Baldwin over the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the Rust movie have been dropped. Prosecutors in Santa Fe had been pressing forward with two involuntary manslaughter charges against the Hollywood star. A statement from Baldwin’s lawyers, Luke Nikas and Alex Spiro, said: “We are

SpaceX has launched its Starship rocket system, the biggest and most powerful ever made, for the first time in a landmark test. Three days after an inaugural flight was scrapped due to a last-minute glitch, it blasted off from Boca Chica in southern Texas as thousands of spectators watched on nearby. Starship is made up

The top of a church spire is the only part of Yellowstone Film Ranch that is visible from the bumpy public road which winds through the valley. It is here that the filming of Rust will resume, almost exactly a year and a half since cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot dead on set in New

Two teenagers have been arrested and charged with murder after a shooting at a 16th birthday party in Alabama left four dead and 32 wounded. The suspects, Ty Reik McCullough, 17, and Travis McCullough,16, were charged with four counts of reckless murder, a state police spokesperson said. District Attorney Mike Segrest said the pair would

Hillary Clinton has told Sky News that Donald Trump will not win the next election – and Joe Biden will be re-elected whoever the Republican candidate is. The former Democratic presidential candidate and secretary of state said “more people are onto him [Trump] and his behaviour than they were before”. Mrs Clinton has been subjected

An arrest warrant has been issued for the man accused of shooting a Black teenager in the head in Kansas City. Andrew Lester, 85, is accused of shooting 16-year-old Ralph Yarl, who reportedly went to the wrong house by accident when trying to collect his younger brothers last week. Police said on Monday that Lester

Two New York residents have been arrested and charged after allegedly running an illegal Manhattan police station for the Chinese government. The pair face federal charges of operating the undeclared outpost in the Chinatown neighbourhood and conspiring to act as agents for Beijing, said the US attorney for the eastern district of New York. The

Voting machine company Dominion has settled its defamation lawsuit with Fox News.  Dominion Voting Systems sued Fox over its coverage of false claims that the company rigged the 2020 US presidential election to prevent Donald Trump‘s victory. The trial was scheduled to begin on Monday but just a few hours before it was due to

The Phantom Of The Opera is no longer in New York – and has taken its final bow after a record-breaking 35-year run on Broadway. The show, which tells the story of a disfigured phantom who haunts a Paris opera house and falls in love with a singer there, was Broadway’s longest-running show, and ended

Multiple people have been injured and four have been killed in a shooting in Alabama, officials have said. The incident is reported to have taken place at a teenager’s birthday party late on Saturday evening in the city of Dadeville, in Tallapoosa County. It was not immediately known if a suspect was in custody. WRBL-TV

It has been one those weeks in America where you end up with whiplash from a flood of remarkable news. So much news, in fact, we couldn’t cover it all in the depth we’d like to have done. The main stories were all familiar American themes – guns, intelligence leaks, abortion, drugs. But within each,

In his garden there was, what else, but a ‘gaming chair’. The seat sits outside and unoccupied on the North Dighton property of Jack Teixeira – a nod, perhaps, to the secrets scandal that he perpetrated through a gaming platform online. It is upholstered aggressively in red and black, a growling accessory in a gaming

The US Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a court decision that would halt the approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. A judge said current rules over access to the drug – used in the most common method of abortion in the country – should be preserved until Wednesday at the earliest. The postponement is to

The FBI used billing records from an internet social media app to unmask US airman Jack Teixeira as a suspect over the leak of top-secret military documents, it has been revealed.   Court documents made public on Friday showed investigators identified the Massachusetts Air National Guardsman, 21, using information on the Discord chat platform. The

A national guardsman accused of leaking highly classified military documents is due to appear in court later today. Jack Teixeira is set to be charged with removing or transmitting classified national defence information, which is a crime under the National Espionage Act. The 21-year-old’s arrest raises fresh questions about America’s ability to safeguard its most

The leader of an online group behind suspected US military document leaks is national guardsman Jack Teixeira, officials have told NBC News. Teixeira, 21, is said to have overseen a private online group, containing around 30 people, in which the leaked documents were shared. He is a member of the intelligence wing of the Massachusetts

A street drug which rots the skin of those who use it has been designated an “emerging threat to the nation” by the White House. The unprecedented announcement, by the Biden administration’s Office for National Drug Control Policy, reflects the alarming speed at which ‘Tranq’ is spreading across America. Last month, Sky News revealed the

Joe Biden has frequently spoken of his Irish roots and his love for the country – but not all of his light-hearted comments have gone down well. As the US president visits Belfast before he crosses the border, we take a look at some of his controversial jokes and reactions to some of his past

Police bodycam footage has shown the moment a gunman opened fire at a Louisville bank – killing five colleagues. Connor Sturgeon, 25, was shot dead by police following the attack at the Old National Bank in the Kentucky city on Monday morning. Two patrol officers who responded to the shooting were among eight wounded, with

The US and the Philippines are holding their largest combat drills in decades after China conducted mock air and sea attacks off the coast of Taiwan. The pre-planned annual “Balikatan” exercises will involve more than 17,600 military personnel and include live-fire drills such as a boat-sinking rocket assault in waters across the South China Sea

US President Joe Biden says his trip to the island of Ireland will underscore the United States’ commitment to peace and prosperity.   He is due to arrive in Belfast later, where he’ll be met by the UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The pair will hold a bilateral meeting on Wednesday, after which President Biden

Five people have been killed in a shooting in Louisville, Kentucky, police have said. Six people including a police officer were transported to hospital, a Louisville Metro Police Department official said. The suspected shooter was dead, they added. Police activity was seen near a bank building. “There are multiple casualties,” the force said earlier. The

Spain’s Jon Rahm has won the 87th Masters at Augusta National. Forty years after the late Seve Ballesteros won his second Masters title and on what would have been his 66th birthday, Rahm became the fourth Spanish winner at Augusta National after Ballesteros, Jose Maria Olazabal and Sergio Garcia. The 2021 US Open champion carded

Ben Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials in Germany, has died at the age of 103. Mr Ferencz was an inexperienced 27-year-old when he became chief prosecutor for the US in the trial of 22 officers who were part of Einsatzgruppen. The mobile killing squads were part of Germany’s Nazi forces during

An abortion pill approved in the US more than 20 years ago could now be pulled. US district judge Matthew J Kacsmaryk has signed an injunction directing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to halt the approval of mifepristone while a lawsuit by a conservative Christian group challenging its safety continues. The outcome could halt