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Lindsey Graham, the US senator and prominent ally of Donald Trump, has died. The 71-year-old, who was a Republican representative for South Carolina, died on Saturday “from a brief and sudden illness”, his office said. This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please …

Police investigating Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor are to speak to Virginia Giuffre’s family, Sky News understands. The former prince was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office earlier this year, and released on bail. And it emerged in May that detectives investigating Andrew will consider allegations of sexual misconduct in their …

“We’re all rooting for Erling Haaland,” said Marie, an American woman attending a Norwegian celebration in Miami, Florida. “We’ve all fallen in love with him,” she told BBC Mundo. “He’s goofy and he’s a beast.” “I’m entranced by Mr Haaland,” said Miami resident Robert, speaking to BBC Mundo. “He’s a …

President Donald Trump has said he will not sign a bipartisan housing bill into law in protest over the US Senate’s failure to pass voter ID legislation. The housing bill, approved by Congress last month, is set to become law automatically at midnight on Friday, unless the president decides to …

Eight people have been charged with terrorism offences over an alleged plot to kill government officials and other high-profile figures, including President Donald Trump, at last month’s UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House. The men, aged 19 to 32, are all charged with conspiracy to provide material support …

For the past few days, Justine Kirby has been sporting an N95 mask every time she leaves her house to walk in her quiet Upper East Side neighbourhood. She is keeping her apartment windows closed, too, as an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease grows to 46 cases, which the city has …

The suspect wasn’t even sure what model of gun he’d used, according to messages with his roommate. “I don’t fully know what the gun was, because it was old… and Gramps did some modifying,” he wrote. Twiggs testified that Robinson had asked weeks earlier about using an engraving tool in …

The incident prompted protests in Houston on Wednesday, and four Democratic Congress members have demanded an independent investigation into Salgado’s death. In a letter to DHS, Representatives Sylvia Garcia, Al Green, Lizzie Fletcher and Christian Menefeewrote, wrote that the incident was “not the first time ICE agents have used unnecessary, …

A New Jersey officer has been criminally charged with causing the death of two police dogs by leaving the pair locked inside a hot patrol car. Cody Henderson, a K-9 handler in Salem County, is facing multiple charges related to the deaths of police dogs Rip and Boomer, who were …

👉 Follow Trump100 on your podcast app 👈 The NATO summit was supposed to be about defence spending. Instead, Donald Trump brought enough political grenades to overshadow almost everything else. Mark Stone speaks to Sky’s security and defence editor Deborah Haynes, who is fresh from Ankara, about the leaders trying …

Wally Funk, the oldest woman to travel into space, has died aged 87. Ms Funk died on Wednesday at her apartment in an assisted living facility in Grapevine, Texas, according to city councilwoman and friend Duff O’Dell. An aviation pioneer, Ms Funk was 82 when she launched into space on …

Nationally, too, the midterms look like an uphill battle for Democrats to win a majority in the upper chamber of Congress, where they hope to put checks on President Donald Trump’s power. Along with unseating Collins – the longest-serving Republican woman in the Senate – Democrats must hold on to …

The source of the cyclosporiasis outbreak, which has spread across at least 17 states, is unclear. BBC News

When Twiggs asked why, Robinson responded that he’d “had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out.” He continued texting Twiggs that night, still near the Utah Valley University campus in Orem where Kirk was shot, telling his roommate that he’d left his rifle in bushes where he’d …

Recordings of a police interview with the roommate of Tyler Robinson, the man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk, were played in court during a preliminary hearing. The roommate, Lance Twiggs, told police in the recording that Robinson confessed to Kirk’s murder during an exchange at their apartment and …

Actor Justin Baldoni and his wife, Emily, lamented trauma and pain endured by their family in their first public remarks after a long-running legal battle with co-star Blake Lively. In May, Lively and Baldoni settled a lawsuit after the 2024 movie It Ends With Us, ending a contentious streak of …

Palm Beach International Airport was officially renamed as President Donald J. Trump International Airport on 9 July, with workers installing new highway signs outside the airport ahead of the change. The renaming follows legislation signed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in March. The US Federal Aviation Administration said the airport’s …

More than a thousand protesters marched on 8 July near the spot where an ICE officer fatally shot a man driving to work. The demonstrators echoed mounting demands for an independent inquiry into Tuesday’s shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, a Mexican national who lived in the US as an …

Justin Gignac, an artist in New York City, collected garbage outside Madison Square Garden on the day of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding. The “Pocket Garbage” collection sold out online after he posted a video of it on TikTok. The cubes of trash were priced at $25 (£18) and …

The high court’s rules allow for a losing party to formally file a request for a rehearing within 25 days. A majority of the nine-member court would have to approve granting a rehearing. The 30 June ruling to uphold birthright citizenship marked a setback for the president’s immigration agenda, though …