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US President Joe Biden has welcomed Donald Trump for a meeting at the White House aimed at ensuring the smooth transition of power from one leader to another. It is the first time the president-elect has visited the White House since he left the Oval Office after being defeated by Mr Biden in the 2020

The announcements should not be a surprise. Donald Trump said he’d do things differently this time. And yet they still prompt a double take. I’ll come to Elon Musk in a moment. But first, the man Donald Trump has nominated as America’s new defence secretary is a TV anchor from Fox News. The person proposed

Donald Trump has confirmed Elon Musk will co-lead a government department within his cabinet. The president-elect said on Tuesday that the Tesla and X owner – who is also the world’s richest man – will work with former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the department of government efficiency. He said the pair “will

Donald Trump is expected to name Florida Senator Marco Rubio as his secretary of state, according to US media reports. Mr Trump, who will be inaugurated on 20 January 2025, could still change his mind about the appointment, three sources familiar with the selection process have told Sky News’ US partner network NBC News. The

Donald Trump urged Vladimir Putin not to escalate the war in Ukraine in a phone call the day after the presidential election, according to reports. The US president-elect also reminded the Russian president of America’s sizeable military presence in Europe during the conversation on Thursday, according to The Washington Post and Reuters, citing sources familiar

A Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) employee has been sacked after telling staff not to help hurricane survivors who displayed signs at their homes supporting Donald Trump. Florida governor Ron DeSantis had said he directed the state’s Division of Emergency Management to launch an investigation into “the federal government’s targeted discrimination of Floridians who support”

Lake Worth Beach in Florida is 1,000 miles from Washington DC but it feels like a million. The sea is turquoise blue, the breeze whipping up the waves, dozens of people basking in the sunshine. There’s a whiff of coconut from the beach bars, all of them packed on a warm Saturday morning. US election

Google searches for moving abroad increased by more than 1,000% for certain countries after the US election result became clear, data shows. US searches for “move to Canada” increased by 1,270% in the 24 hours after the polls closed on the East Coast on Tuesday, according to Google data. Similar queries about emigrating to Australia

After a year of ever more extreme weather and continually rising global temperatures, it’s no wonder this year’s UN climate summit has been called – once again – the “last-chance saloon”. Yet swaggering out through its swing doors goes president-elect Donald Trump. The timing of his election win, with its promise to withdraw the US

From Detroit to Dearborn, the Harris campaign of hope has settled into a historic hangover. Trump supporters are ecstatic, Harris hopefuls are deflated and the clear-eyed independents are basking in the accuracy of their BS barometers. “I think a lot of it has to do with when you have a political process of identity politics.

As the dust settles on Donald Trump’s historic US election win, the president-elect will begin the process of choosing who will be in his administration for his second stint in the White House. During his presidential campaign, Mr Trump – who will become the 47th president of the United States, having also served as its

Kamala Harris has called Donald Trump to concede defeat in the US presidential election. A senior adviser to the vice president said she talked about “the importance of a peaceful transfer of power and being a president for all Americans”. Ms Harris is due to deliver a concession speech at 4pm local (9pm UK time).

“The future is gonna be fantastic,” America’s unlikely kingmaker posted on X, above a photograph of his Starship rocket blasting into space. It was, after all, Elon Musk who strapped boosters to Donald Trump’s campaign and helped propel him to a decisive victory. The world’s richest man bombarded his 200m+ followers on the platform he

👉Listen to The World with Richard Engle and Yalda Hakim on your podcast app👈 They said it was too close to call, but Donald Trump won decisively and is now set to return to the White House. In his victory speech he repeated his claim that he is the man who “will stop wars” and

Two women have now lost elections to Donald Trump. That fact alone is unbelievable and enraging to Democrats across America. Was it sexism? Misogyny? Bad candidates? Bad policies? Bad campaigning? Those are just some of the myriad questions running wild in the Democratic Party apparatus right now, as they search for answers after the most

Abortion rights have been a burning election issue in the US, with Kamala Harris portraying herself as the protector of women’s reproductive freedoms, while Donald Trump gave mixed messages on where he really stands on it. Measures aimed at either protecting existing abortion rights or expanding them were put on the ballot in 10 different

They call it ‘Agenda 47’ – an eyebrow-raising blueprint for the 47th presidency. It could be entitled ‘Back to the Future’. Donald Trump’s base yearn for “the golden era”, an America they believe has been lost. He’s on a mission to find it for them. The New York tycoon stands on the precipice of power beyond

Donald Trump has secured a fourth battleground state in the race for the White House, confirming his victory in the US election. Mr Trump is projected to win the crucial swing states of Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Democrat Kamala Harris hoped to become the first woman US president – but there is now

Donald Trump has recorded an emphatic defeat of Kamala Harris, racing past the 270 electoral votes he needed with states to spare. A win in Wisconsin tipped him over the line, but it was victories for Mr Trump in the key states of Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina – all three largest battlegrounds – that

A man described by not one but two of his closest former aides as a fascist will become the most powerful man in the world when he takes office. How worried should we be? Very, say another dozen White House staffers who served under Donald Trump and watched him in action for his first four