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A teacher in the US has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly being caught on hidden camera poisoning her husband’s smoothie. Sarah Scheffer’s husband installed the surveillance equipment after suspecting his wife had been contaminating his food and drink over a number of weeks, causing him to feel unwell. When questioned by police in

Donald Trump was threatened with expulsion from his Manhattan civil trial yesterday after he repeatedly ignored a warning to keep quiet. Trump was repeatedly heard making remarks while writer E Jean Carroll testified that he destroyed her reputation after she accused him of sexual abuse. In an initial warning, Judge Lewis A Kaplan told the

A mother has claimed police raided the “wrong house” and deployed diversionary flash-bang devices that injured her 17-month-old son – leaving the infant in hospital with burns. Police have offered a different account of what happened – saying they executed a search warrant at the correct address and the child was not harmed during the

Donald Trump has won the Republican party’s Iowa caucuses, according to a projection by Sky’s US partner NBC News. The voting is the first step of a process that’s likely to see the former president picked as Republican candidate for November’s election. Mr Trump was overwhelming favourite to be top pick among Republican members in

Temperatures in parts of the US could drop to about -30C as Donald Trump urged voters in one state to brave the blizzard conditions. At least four people have died in a dangerous Arctic blast, which has knocked out electricity for hundreds of thousands of people, brought snow even to southern states and postponed a

Extreme winter weather is causing major disruption in the US as a continuing wave of Arctic storms hit flights, NFL playoff games and election campaigns. Dangerously cold wind, freezing rain and heavy snow are predicted for much of the country this weekend with temperatures threatening to drop to record lows in the midwest. Governors from

Donald Trump defied a judge and launched into a six-minute speech on being an “innocent man” as his civil fraud trial in New York came to an end today. Mr Trump had been barred from giving a formal closing argument at the trial but after two of his lawyers delivered the traditional speeches, one asked

Online retailer eBay has agreed to pay a $3m (£2.4m) fine to resolve criminal charges over employees who harassed a couple by sending live spiders, cockroaches to their home. David and Ina Steiner also had a funeral wreath, a bloody pig mask, and a book about surviving the loss of a spouse, show up at

Two tech giants are battling it out for the title of the world’s most valuable company. Microsoft had overtaken Apple for the first time since 2021 to become the world’s most valuable firm by market capitalisation – which measures the value and number of a company’s shares. Money latest:‘Huge announcement’ on car finance could see

The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s civil fraud case has been subject to a bomb threat, Sky News’s US partner network NBC News reports. Nassau County police responded to the threat at Arthur Engoron’s home on Thursday, according to a source with direct knowledge of the situation. Closing arguments in the trial are scheduled today,

Rescue teams are searching a California ski resort near Lake Tahoe following an avalanche – as a major storm with snow and gusty winds moved into the region. It comes after a series of powerful winter storms swept through parts of the eastern US and Canada, claiming the lives of at least five people and

Any stage will do. Donald Trump didn’t have to attend the appeal hearing in Washington DC but in this, an election year, he insisted.  No wonder. It’s a no-brainer. Trump’s legal troubles continue to propel his popularity and his fundraising. So with a federal courthouse swamped by media for the latest legal twist, there is

Donald Trump has appeared in court as he tries to dismiss a federal criminal case where he faces charges he plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Mr Trump‘s lawyers argued in front of appeal judges in Washington DC that he was immune from prosecution because he was president at the time of

Joe Biden was interrupted during a speech at a church on Monday by pro-Palestinian protesters who demanded: “Ceasefire now”. The US president was giving a speech to a church in Charleston, South Carolina, where an avowed white supremacist shot nine black parishioners in 2015. “If you really care about the lives lost here, then you

Apple has reportedly started making payments to US owners of certain iPhone models over claims handsets are slowed down. Complainants are due about $92 (£72) for each affected model owned as part of a maximum $500m (£394m) total payout. The sum only applies to owners in the US and covers the iPhone 6, 6 Plus,

NASA is on its way back to the moon, but this time it’s not at the controls. Instead, it’s bought a ticket to ride on a private spacecraft, the start of a new era of commercial lunar missions. It’s a seismic shift. NASA hopes the innovation of tech start-ups will bring down the costs of

The missing door plug that was torn off from an Alaska Airlines flight while in the air has been found by a school teacher. Pilots were forced to perform an emergency landing on Saturday after a hole was ripped into the side of the Boeing 737 Max 9 plane. The National Transportation Safety Board says

President Joe Biden and senior leaders in his administration were unaware for days that US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin had been in hospital since New Year’s Day, American officials have said. The Pentagon did not inform the White House National Security Council or top adviser Jake Sullivan of Mr Austin’s hospital admission until Thursday, two

President Biden has said Donald Trump is “willing to sacrifice our democracy” to put himself in power again – as he spoke three years on from the Capitol riots. Mr Trump is currently favourite to be his rival once again in November’s presidential election. And Mr Biden launched an extended attack on his ambitions and

A body found in a freezer last month may have been that of a woman who has been missing or dead for up to nine years, police in the US have said. The body was discovered by “out-of-town” family members who were visiting a residence in San Diego, Sky News’s US partner network NBC News