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Donald Trump appears to be back on Twitter after an online poll voted for his return. The platform’s new owner Elon Musk had announced on Saturday evening that following the vote, the former president would be reinstated, almost two years after he was removed following the 6 January US Capitol riots. On hearing the news,

Facebook was encountering election interference content as far back as 2006, some 10 years before Mark Zuckerberg first acknowledged the issue, the platform’s former head of global public policy has claimed. Speaking at Sky News’ Big Ideas Live event, where experts and industry leaders discussed the biggest science and technology issues of our times, Paul

Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has been sentenced to more than 11 years in a US federal prison for conning investors and endangering patients while peddling a bogus blood-testing technology. The 38-year-old was convicted by a Californian jury on three counts of investor fraud and one count of conspiracy in January. She was jailed for

Joe Biden has been accused of “capitulation” after his administration said Saudi Arabia’s crown prince should not face legal action over the murder of a US-based journalist. Despite the US president having previously vowed to make a “pariah” out of the country’s rulers following the 2018 killing of Jamal Khashoggi, the State Department has declared

“Don’t worry about the future, we’re in good hands.” So said former US president Bill Clinton in 2015, as he introduced Elizabeth Holmes to an adoring New York crowd. It seemed an uncontroversial statement at the time, as he hailed the achievements of a woman who had become America’s youngest self-made female billionaire after taking

Nancy Pelosi has said she will not run again to be Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, after nearly two decades in the role. The veteran politician lost the speakership after the Republicans took the House in the recent midterm elections. Despite saying she would step down from the role she has held since

The Republicans have won back control of the US House of Representatives. After two years of Democratic control of both the House and the Senate, the power dynamic in Washington will now shift. It means President Joe Biden‘s administration could struggle to enact parts of its legislative agenda. The Democrats did manage to keep control

Donald Trump may have declared that ”America’s comeback starts right now”, but the latest polls paint a questionable picture of his divisive re-election bid. The Republican Party’s lacklustre performance in the midterms and the failure of a string of Trump-endorsed candidates has many wondering if the former president is the right leader to challenge for the

Donald Trump has officially launched a third bid for the US presidency after several hints, amid legal probes and blame for the Republican Party’s underwhelming midterm election results. He made the announcement from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida and said: “America’s comeback starts right now.” Mr Trump said that “everybody was doing great” after his

Kari Lake, who backed Donald Trump’s false claims of voter fraud in 2020, has lost her bid to become the next governor of Arizona. The closely fought race with Democrat Katie Hobbs was one of the most significant in the US midterms as Arizona is a battleground state and is expected to play a pivotal role

Jay Leno was seriously burned after one of his cars burst into flames in the garage of his Los Angeles home. The US comedian was taken to hospital with facial burns after what his representative described as a “flash fire”. The 72-year-old former Tonight Show host cancelled a Las Vegas performance scheduled for Sunday night

US President Joe Biden has met his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and said they have a “responsibility” to show the two countries can “manage our differences”. Mr Xi went into the three-and-a-half-hour discussion prepared for a “candid and in-depth exchange of views” with Mr Biden, saying he hoped they would find areas of cooperation. And

The midterm elections are said to be a referendum on the success, or otherwise, of the sitting president and his first two years in the White House. President Joe Biden’s approval rating is underwater, inflation is soaring and he makes a gaffe almost every time he opens his mouth, so the success of Democrat candidates

Six people have been killed after two historic military planes collided during an airshow in the US city of Dallas. The planes – a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber and a P-63 Kingcobra fighter – crashed into each other at around 1.20pm local time. They were part of the Commemorative Air Force Wings Over Dallas show

The Democrats will keep control of the US Senate after a projected win in the state of Nevada. Democrat incumbent Catherine Cortez Masto is sitting on 48.7% of the vote – a narrow edge over Republican former state attorney general Adam Laxalt on 48.2%. Ms Cortez Masto, 58, campaigned heavily on the issue of abortion

Joe Biden referred to Cambodia, which is hosting an international summit led by Southeast Asian leaders, as Colombia in another high-profile slip-up. “Now that we’re back together here in Cambodia, I look forward to building even stronger progress than we’ve already made, and I want to thank the prime minister of Colombia for his leadership