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It could be time for a British NATO Secretary General, according to US President Joe Biden. Amid growing speculation that UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace wants to take over the top role when Jens Stoltenberg stands down later this year, Mr Biden was asked if he would support a Briton taking the top job during

Taking a Type 2 diabetes drug while you have coronavirus reduces chances of getting long COVID by 40%, a new study has suggested. Metformin is a cheap drug used to control blood sugar in patients with Type 2 diabetes. Scientists in the US have found that participants who took a two-week course within three days

Former vice-president Mike Pence has declared himself a candidate in the 2024 Republican race for the White House – pitting himself against Donald Trump. Mr Pence‘s campaign filed a declaration of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission. He will formally launch his campaign with a video and a speech in the early nominating state of

A loud boom in the Washington DC area which residents of the US capital said shook houses and sounded like an explosion was caused by military jets which had been scrambled to deal with an airspace violation. US officials have confirmed that the sound was the sonic boom of fighters pursuing a light aircraft that

A fertility doctor who was accused of using his sperm to impregnate several patients has died, after a plane he was in crashed. Dr Morris Wortman, 72, from New York, was a passenger in the experimental aircraft that went down on Sunday. The hand-built plane fell apart mid-flight and according to officers, the pilot was

A federal judge will hear an appeal from a conservative think tank to unseal Prince Harry’s US immigration records following revelations in his book that he took drugs. Nile Gardner, of the Heritage Foundation, tweeted on Tuesday a hearing on his organisation’s suit will be heard on 6 June. He wrote that the “Prince Harry

Nine people have been injured in a shooting near a Hollywood Beach, Florida. One person has been arrested and police have said they are looking for one more suspect. Early reports said there was an altercation between two groups. Police said there would be a heavy presence of officers as the investigation continues. Advertisement

Ron DeSantis has entered the race to be the next US president, going head to head with Donald Trump. He filed a declaration of candidacy with the US federal electoral commission on Wednesday. The 44-year-old becomes the latest in a crowded Republican contest to decide whether the party will move on from Mr Trump in

Breakfast in a Floridian diner is never for the faint-hearted. There’s the biscuits and gravy, the grits, the oversized breakfast tacos, the waffles, the pancakes, the corned beef hash and, of course, the all-American drip coffee. If you survive all that, and if you nudge the locals a little, then the passionate yet divisive politics

A school in Florida has banned the poem read at Joe Biden’s inauguration after a single complaint. The unnamed parent said Amanda Gorman’s poem The Hill We Climb was “not educational” and contained “indirectly (sic) hate messages”, adding that it could “cause confusion and indoctrinate students”. Gorman, 25, said on Instagram that she was “gutted”

Donald Trump has appeared in court via video link to receive a warning from a judge over evidence sharing in his criminal hush money case. It was his first appearance in court – albeit this time not in person – since his arraignment on 5 April where he pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts

From a little league baseball star to the Republican Party’s culture warrior-in-chief, the rise of Ron DeSantis is impossible to ignore. Now showdowns with Disneyland and Donald Trump loom on the horizon as he considers a run for president. Under his watch, Florida has become a hotbed for so-called anti-woke laws such as the heavily-criticised

The moment a US police officer points a gun at a suspect while kneeling on the bonnet of his moving car – before clinging to the roof of the vehicle as the motorist drives away at speed – has been revealed in a newly released video. An officer had been seen approaching the car before

Jeremy Renner has shared a video showing his first jog on an anti-gravity treadmill, just months after he was almost killed by a snow plough. The Marvel actor posted a short clip of him running on the machine in his living room, with the motivational caption: “First attempt at a very light jog with weight

A copy of the Hebrew Bible, thought to be 1,100 years old and one of the world’s oldest intact books, has been sold at auction for $38m (£30m). The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, handwritten parchment volume, was bought by Alfred H Moses, a former US ambassador to Romania, in New York on Wednesday. It is

Montana has become the first state in the US to ban Chinese-owned popular video-sharing platform TikTok from personal devices. The state’s Republican governor Greg Gianforte signed legislation prohibiting mobile application stores from offering the app. The legislation makes it illegal for app stores to offer TikTok, but does not prevent those who already have the

President Joe Biden will cut a trip to Asia and Australia short to deal with the impending debt crisis in the US. The 80-year-old has cancelled stops in Australia and Papua New Guinea and will return to the US after the G7 summit in Japan. He will attend the three-day summit that starts on Friday

The CIA has urged Russians to share their secrets about the Ukraine war in a new video posted on social media.  The Russian-language video was first posted on Telegram – a social media site used widely by both sides in the war – as well as YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. “We want to reach those

Elon Musk has announced his new Twitter chief executive – NBCUniversal executive Linda Yaccarino. The billionaire said he was “excited” to announce the hiring of Ms Yaccarino – who he said would focus “primarily on business operations” at Twitter. Musk, who completed a $44bn (£35bn) takeover of the social media site in October, also announced

Joe Biden says he visited the island of Ireland last month to make sure the “Brits didn’t screw around”. The US president – who is vocal about his Irish ancestry – made the comments at an event for the Democratic Party in New York on Wednesday. He visited Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland