Feuding tech billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg will both attend a US Senate summit on AI regulation next month. The SpaceX and Meta bosses, who spent weeks suggesting they were going to fight each other in a cage match, have been called to speak about how politicians could approach the fast-growing technology. Governments around

A top-10 tennis player said she could smell “weed” on court during her US Open match before suffering a shock defeat. Maria Sakkari was leading opponent Rebeka Masarova 4-1 in the first set when she signalled to the umpire of the scent, which she would clarify as “weed” in a post-match press conference. The Greek

Two people have been killed after a helicopter crashed into an apartment complex in Florida. The fire-rescue helicopter crashed near the Pompano Beach Airpark on Monday shortly before 9am local time, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said. Three people were on board the helicopter at the time of the crash. Image: The helicopter crashed into an

The trial of Donald Trump on charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 presidential election result has been set for 4 March 2024. The date means Trump‘s trial could start almost eight months before the 2024 US presidential election. The former president is currently hot favourite to win the Republican nomination to take on President

Hannah Montana star Mitchel Musso was arrested on Saturday on charges of theft and public intoxication after stealing a bag of crisps. Musso, 32, played Oliver Oken on the Disney show alongside Miley Cyrus and her father Billy Ray Cyrus for five years from 2006 to 2011. Image: Mitchell Musso’s mugshot. Pic: Rockwell County Sheriff’s

A gunman who shot dead three black people in a “racially motivated” attack in Florida has been named. Ryan Palmeter, 21, killed two men and a woman inside a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Sheriff T K Walters told a news conference on Sunday. He said the suspect “targeted black people” before killing himself. “Plainly

Donald Trump is making a mockery of TV debates just as he has trashed so many other norms of decent behaviour and democratic politics. He has opted out of the first two debates between the candidates vying for the Republican nomination in next year’s US presidential election. That does not mean that he is missing

Thousands of people came together at the National Mall to remember the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s March on Washington. But they say that even after all this time, the US is still driven by racial inequality, and King’s dream has not yet come true. Alphonso David, the leader of the Global Black

Three black people have been killed in a “racially motivated” shooting in Jacksonville, Florida. Two men and one woman were shot dead in a Dollar General store in the city by a man in his early 20s in what the mayor has called a “hate filled crime”. Jacksonville’s sheriff said that the suspect, an unidentified

Two people have been injured in a shooting during a baseball game in Chicago. A 42-year-old woman was wounded in the leg and another woman, 26, received a grazed abdomen at the Guaranteed Rate Field Stadium on Friday evening, police said. Detectives are still in the preliminary stages of their investigation. In a statement, Chicago

Breakups are not much fun. Whether it’s your first time through it or an unfortunate familiarity, there are few more agonising gut punches. Doubts and insecurities aplenty; wondering where, how and why things changed; and like an agonising Lionesses World Cup run, an overwhelming sense of “what if”. Being a “science and tech journalist” has

US climate envoy John Kerry has told Sky News that climate denial and disinformation is “costly, very dangerous and wrong”. Mr Kerry was responding to a question about a recent US Republican primary debate in which only one of the eight candidates explicitly stated that climate change is real, and candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said “the

Donald Trump’s scowling mugshot will rank among the most famous of all time. The former president joins celebrities like OJ Simpson, Khloe Kardashian, Hugh Grant and other famous faces who have had their picture taken by the authorities after run-ins with the law. While in the UK mugshots are only released when a defendant is

Donald Trump has been formally booked by authorities in Georgia over accusations that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state. The 77-year-old had his mugshot taken – an historic first for a former US president – and was booked in as inmate P01135809 as he was presented with

Did anyone make up ground on Donald Trump? On the question of the night, the answer is probably not. There is more to Republican politics than Donald Trump and we saw a lot of it last night. But what we didn’t see from the eight candidates who were on stage was the emergence of a

Vivek Ramaswamy joined the Republican race to become US president earlier this year – and although he is polling behind Donald Trump – he is starting to gain traction in the US. The 38-year-old business investor is the youngest major Republican candidate in history. His “anti-woke” agenda focuses on recapturing the American dream from a

Donald Trump has questioned whether President Joe Biden will be physically capable of running for re-election in 2024 – as he skipped the first Republican debate of the campaign. The former president made the comments as he took part in a 46-minute interview uploaded to X, formerly known as Twitter, on the same night as

If you were looking for a point at which to sit up, tune in and get your head around the utterly mad state of American politics, well then the next couple of days is perfect.  You’ll see a former president (and quite possibly the next one) surrender himself to one of the country’s grimmest jails

A security guard who went viral after he was filmed singing along at a Taylor Swift concert has claimed he has since been fired by the firm he was working for. Calvin Denker was seen joining in with the song Cruel Summer in footage from one of Swift‘s shows in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at the end

Catholic nuns in Texas have mutinied against their bishop and banned him from their monastery for “spiritual safety” in the latest salvo in a bizarre religious feud. They say they have been subjected to “aggression, humiliation and spiritual manipulation” as a result of the “attitudes and ambitions” of Bishop Michael Olson. It comes after Bishop

Donald Trump has said he will surrender himself to authorities in Georgia on Thursday, as he awaits trial on charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat in the US state. “Can you believe it? I’ll be going to Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday to be ARRESTED,” the former US president wrote on his social

A teenage girl nicknamed “hell on wheels” has been jailed for life for murdering her boyfriend and another passenger by driving a car into a wall at 100mph. Mackenzie Shirilla, 19, was handed two concurrent 15 years to life sentences in a court in Ohio on Monday over the deaths of her boyfriend Dominic Russo,

Joe Biden has visited the wildfire-hit island of Maui – following days of criticism over his response to the crisis. The president and his wife, first lady Jill Biden, arrived on the Hawaiian island on Monday – 13 days after the wildfires that claimed at least 114 lives and devastated the historic town of Lahaina.

The Californian desert city of Palm Springs has been cut off after Tropical Storm Hilary flooded streets and brought down power lines across southern parts of the Golden State. The storm reached hurricane strength off Mexico and dumped record-breaking downpours when it reached the US. By midday on Monday, blue skies were replacing grey clouds.

A total of 850 people are still missing following deadly wildfires in Maui, Hawaii, the county’s mayor has said. In an overnight update, Mayor Richard Bissen said he was “both saddened and relieved about these numbers”. He said it had been feared more than 2,000 people were missing but that 1,285 people have been found

California is bracing for its first tropical storm in 84 years with almost 1,000 flights cancelled and the ongoing actors’ strike called off due to the impending extreme weather. Storm Hilary was previously classed as a Category 4 hurricane but weakened as it approached the Mexican coast, from where it was due to head to

Lolita, an orca held captive for more than half a century at the Miami Seaquarium, has died at the estimated age of 57 from suspected kidney disease. Also known as Tokitae or Toki, she was believed to have been the world’s second-oldest killer whale. Her death on Friday came as her caregivers were making preparations

Britney Spears has broken her silence on her separation from husband Sam Asghari after he filed for divorce, telling fans she “couldn’t take the pain anymore”. The 41-year-old star posted a video on Instagram on Saturday, telling her 42 million followers she was “a little shocked” but had no intention of explaining the split and

Fears are growing over the safety of a singer, songwriter and model who co-wrote Katy Perry’s hit Walking On Air, who has gone missing in Beverly Hills. Camela Leierth-Segura, 48, was last seen on Thursday 29 June according to the California Department of Justice’s missing persons’ page. Twitter This content is provided by Twitter, which

Southern California is bracing for its first tropical storm in 84 years, bringing potentially “historic” levels of rainfall. The extreme conditions set to batter the state will be the remnants of Hurricane Hilary, which was due to strike Mexico‘s Baja peninsula on Saturday. Forecasters have predicted “catastrophic and life-threatening flooding”, with those in impacted areas