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Joe Biden has told an ally he is weighing up whether to run against Donald Trump in November’s US election, the New York Times is reporting. Joe Biden said overnight on Tuesday he “nearly fell asleep” during last week’s first presidential debate during which commentators widely said he performed poorly. He put his performance down

Travis Kelce has revealed his surprise cameo at Taylor Swift’s London show was his idea.  The 34-year-old American football star joined his girlfriend on stage for the first time at the Eras Tour concert at Wembley Stadium. Talking about the origin of the skit on his podcast New Heights, Kelce told his brother and co-host

A judge in New York has postponed Donald Trump’s hush money sentencing until September to consider the Supreme Court’s ruling on immunity. The US’s top court decided on Monday immunity exists from criminal prosecution for official acts while in office, in a boost for Trump – who is accused of illegally trying to overturn his

Joe Biden didn’t want the Supreme Court decision, that’s clear. Joe Biden’s campaign can feel the benefit, that’s also clear. In a week when Team Biden needs the American public talking about something that isn’t his frailty, the fragility of the rule of law will probably do. It did for him in a Monday evening

Joe Biden has said the historic ruling that former presidents have immunity violates the principle “that there are no kings in America” – and means they can now “ignore the law”. He was speaking after the US Supreme Court decided absolute immunity exists from criminal prosecution for official acts while in office, but not for

The US Supreme Court has sent Donald Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution for his actions while president back to a lower court. Trump faces prosecution over his role in the deadly January 6 riots in 2021 at the Capitol in Washington DC, after he encouraged his supporters to gather at Congress to

Justin Timberlake has appeared to joke about his recent drink-driving arrest at a concert in Boston. The Grammy Award-winning pop star was arrested in Sag Harbor, a wealthy village in the Hamptons in New York State last month. In a video shared on social media over the weekend, Timberlake tells a crowd at Boston’s TD

A 13-year-old boy carrying a “realistic appearing” replica firearm has died after being shot by police in New York state, US authorities have said. The shooting happened after two youths were stopped by officers investigating robberies in Utica, about 240 miles northwest of Manhattan, on Friday evening. They were approached because they “matched the robbery

Martin Mull, who starred in hit television shows including Roseanne, Sabrina The Teenage Witch and Arrested Development, has died aged 80. Mull’s daughter, TV writer and comic artist Maggie Mull, said he died at home on Thursday following a “valiant fight against a long illness”. The US actor, who was first known for his role

On the pier in California’s Manhattan Beach, 21-year-old Stella and her friends are crowded round a phone watching videos of two old men rowing about their golf handicap. It’s not the level of discourse they, or anyone else, hoped for from the presidential debate. “It sounds like a drunk, blackout conversation they’re having at 3am,”

On the back of Joe Biden’s disastrous performance in the US debates, panic has reportedly stricken parts of the Democratic party. It’s even gone as far as unnamed party sources reportedly suggesting replacing Biden in the last weeks before the party’s convention – which would confirm him as running in November’s election. A number of

Joe Biden’s stumbling performance in the US presidential debate has sparked alarm among Democrats – but could he be replaced against his will and how might that work? A national US party has never tried to force an election candidate to step down in the modern era and their rules make it almost impossible to

President Biden and Donald Trump have faced off in the first debate in the 2024 presidential election campaign. The format, with each taking turns to speak with their opponent’s microphone muted, was designed to prevent a shouting match with both candidates talking over each other. In truth, it served to highlight the differences in the

The US Supreme Court has ruled that emergency abortions in Idaho can go ahead. When a patient’s health is at serious risk, hospitals in the northwestern state will be allowed to perform emergency abortions to protect their health. This comes two years after the overturning of Roe v Wade, when Idaho was among 14 states

Joe Biden’s age is written on his resting face, the one that stares into camera like it’s your fault. It’s the look of his 81 years and it doesn’t look great on a debate stage – more ready for bed than for a second term. It matters in Atlanta. Biden enters the TV face-off ridiculed

A white couple from West Virginia have been accused of child neglect after allegedly forcing their adopted black children to work as ‘slaves’ and locking them in a barn. Donald Ray Lantz, 63, and Jeanne Kay Whitefeather, 62, pleaded not guilty at Kanawha County court on Tuesday to multiple charges, including human trafficking of a

Evan Gershkovich has been seen before the start of his behind-closed-doors trial in Russia. Reporters were allowed to briefly film the US journalist on Wednesday before the start of his trial in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on charges of espionage that he denies. Gershkovich was seen standing in a glass box, with a shaved

A man imprisoned for allegedly revealing too much was released from behind bars without a whisper from either his team or the authorities. The only video of Julian Assange on British soil after his departure from the high security Belmarsh prison was filmed on a mobile phone by his closest aides. It shows him being

Julian Assange is travelling to his native Australia on a private jet after US authorities agreed to drop their demand for the WikiLeaks founder to be extradited from the UK having struck a plea deal with him. Assange had to pay $500,000 (£394,000) for a chartered flight from Stansted to Saipan, the capital of the

A lifeguard who appeared in the fourth Pirates Of The Caribbean movie has died after being attacked by a shark off Oahu in Hawaii. Tamayo Perry, 49, who has also starred in Charlie’s Angels 2 and Blue Crush, was attacked near Goat Island on Sunday afternoon, Honolulu’s emergency services said. The incident was reported by