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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

A woman has been sentenced to three years in prison after making death threats against the judge presiding over Donald Trump’s classified documents case. Tiffani Shea Gish from Houston, Texas, pleaded guilty to one count of using interstate communications with a threat to kidnap or injure in November, Sky News’s US parter network NBC News

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

Joe Biden couldn’t remember when he was vice president, according to a new report. And, according to the same investigation, he couldn’t remember when his son died. Then, when trying to reassure everyone about the claims about his memory, he confused the presidents of Mexico and Egypt. Not ideal for someone who wants to run

He won’t be facing charges but that’s not the big news. The report by a Justice Department Special Counsel is pretty devastating in its assessment of the state of mind of the American president. Over more than 200 pages, Robert Hur explains why President Joe Biden will not face charges for holding classified documents after

Joe Biden won’t face criminal charges over the handling of classified documents, after he portrayed himself as an “elderly man with a poor memory”, said the special counsel. Robert Hur said President Biden had “wilfully retained and disclosed classified materials” after he was vice president and when he was a “private citizen”, and his actions

The death of a baby who was decapitated during delivery has been ruled a homicide by a medical examiner’s office in the US state of Georgia. The parents, Jessica Ross and Treveon Isaiah Taylor Sr, sued the hospital and the doctor who delivered their baby boy, named Treveon Taylor Jr, in July last year. Both

Presidential hopeful Nikki Haley has suffered an embarrassing loss to “none of these candidates” in Nevada’s primary vote. Tuesday’s result has been interpreted as a protest staged by Donald Trump-supporting members of the Republican Party. Mrs Haley is Donald Trump’s last rival in the race to go up against President Biden in November’s US election.

Los Angeles has recorded at least 475 mudslides after one of the wettest storms in the history of southern California. Officials are warning of further mudslides and flooding after a large amount of the city’s average annual rainfall fell in just three days – while seven deaths have been reported across the state. LA mayor

The mother of a school shooter who killed four students at a school in Michigan has been convicted in a landmark case. Jennifer Crumbley was found guilty of four counts of involuntary manslaughter and faces 15 years in prison for each charge. Her son Ethan was 15 when he opened fire at Oxford High School,

At least three people have died in a winter storm that has brought near-record amounts of rain and destructive mudslides to parts of California. Two men were killed by fallen trees in Carmichael, a suburb of Sacramento, and in Boulder Creek, to the south of San Jose, as the storm lashed the west coast of

An American porn star has sparked anger after visiting Iran – despite the risks of being detained and sentenced to the death penalty. Whitney Wright, 32, filmed herself in Tehran and visited the abandoned US embassy which has been turned into an anti-American museum. In remarks made on social media, Wright, whose real name is

A former Trump administration official has died after he was shot during an attempted carjacking. Mike Gill, who worked as chief of staff at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission under the former president, was shot in Washington DC last Monday as a man tried to get into a car before fleeing the scene, police said.

Women are dominating the 66th annual Grammys, with the star-studded ceremony set to reveal the successful stars. Even Barbie – the movie that spiced up the summer and set the box office alight – is getting a look in at the awards show which celebrates the best songs of the last year with 11 nominations.

A rocket designed to carry a nuclear warhead was found in the garage of a home in the US. Police in Bellevue, a city across Lake Washington from Seattle, were called to a report of a military-grade rocket by the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio, on Wednesday evening. A Bellevue resident had phoned the

The US has hit 85 targets in Iraq and Syria with airstrikes in a retaliatory attack after three American soldiers were killed at a base in Jordan. More than 125 “precision munitions” were fired from long-range bombers flown from the US at three facilities in Iraq and four in Syria. Middle East latest: US begins

Carl Weathers, the actor famous for playing Apollo Creed in the Rocky films, has died aged 76. In a statement, his family said: “We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Carl Weathers. “He died peacefully in his sleep on Thursday, February 1st, 2024. “Carl was an exceptional human being who lived an extraordinary

In 2023, the names of two women were on everyone’s lips: Barbie, and Taylor Swift. Both are represented at the Grammy Awards tonight. Swift‘s music needs no introduction of course, while Barbie makes the cut thanks to the contributions to the film’s soundtrack by Billie Eilish and Dua Lipa (Ryan Gosling’s I’m Just Ken sadly