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President Donald Trump has signed an order imposing steep tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico and China, risking a trade war and increased prices for American consumers. Mr Trump has declared an economic emergency in order to place duties of 25% on goods from Mexico and Canada, and 10% on all imports from China. But

The name of one of the three soldiers killed in the plane crash in Washington is not being released. The army identified two of the soldiers killed when an American Airlines jet and a military helicopter collided mid-air as Staff Sergeant Ryan Austin O’Hara and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Loyd Eaves. However, it made

👉 Follow Trump 100 on your podcast app 👈 As a passenger plane and a military helicopter collide above Washington’s Potomac River, President Trump has faced criticism after blaming Democrat diversity policies for the incident. Sky News’ US correspondents Mark Stone, Martha Kelner and James Matthews assess how Trump responded to the first big test

Sean “Diddy” Combs was accused in a new criminal indictment of trafficking at least three women in a 20-year-long sexual abuse scheme. Prosecutors said on Thursday that the rapper – also known as P Diddy and Puff Daddy – transported three female victims along with commercial sex workers across state lines and internationally. One of

Donald Trump has signed an executive order to open a migrant detention centre at Guantanamo Bay. Speaking before making the act official, Mr Trump said that thousands of migrants who cannot be deported to their home countries will be held at the complex, on the island of Cuba. “I’m also signing an executive order to

Lord Mandelson says calling Donald Trump a “danger to the world” in 2019 was “ill-judged and wrong”. The former Labour minister has been named as the next UK ambassador to the US, although there have been questions about whether President Trump will accept him. Speaking to Fox News, Lord Mandelson walked back his criticisms from

Donald Trump is aggressively pushing forward with plans to shrink the US government by offering eight months’ pay to federal employees who quit their jobs. They have until 6 February to decide whether to accept the deal, according to a memo from the Office of Personnel Management. The US government’s human resources agency also warned

A US company’s prototype jet has broken the sound barrier in a demonstration it hopes will pave the way for a successor to the Concorde. Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 is the first civilian aircraft to achieve the feat since the British-French supersonic airliner, which was retired in 2003. The XB-1 broke the sound barrier for the

Donald Trump thinks the Chinese startup DeepSeek, which claims it has a technical advantage over US rivals, should be “a wakeup call” for American AI firms. DeepSeek says its artificial intelligence models are comparable with those from US giants, like OpenAI which is behind ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, but potentially a fraction of the cost. That

The chairman of a coalition, which successfully lobbied Arab-Americans to vote for Donald Trump, has slammed the new president for his weekend comments on Gaza. “Arab-Americans for Trump firmly rejects President Donald J Trump’s suggestion to remove – voluntarily or forcibly – Palestinians in Gaza to Egypt and Jordan,” said Dr Bishara Bahbah, national chair

👉 Follow Trump 100 on your podcast app 👈 President Trump says he and Keir Starmer “get along well” as he speaks to the British prime minister for the first time since his inauguration. Sky’s US correspondents James Matthews, Martha Kelner and Mark Stone look at what it tells us about the “special relationship” under

Donald Trump says he will retaliate with “urgent and decisive” measures after Colombia turned away two US military planes carrying deported migrants. The US leader said Colombian president Gustavo Petro’s action “jeopardised the national security and public safety of the United States” in a statement on Truth Social. The retaliatory measures include 25% emergency tariffs

Sir Keir Starmer and Donald Trump “stressed the importance of the close and warm ties” between their countries and “agreed to meet soon” in a phone call, Downing Street has said. During the conversation on Sunday, the prime minister congratulated the president on his inauguration and paid tribute to his “role in securing the landmark

A prominent Republican senator and longtime ally of Donald Trump has questioned his decision to pardon January 6 rioters. Lindsey Graham said the move was a “mistake” and could lead to more violence. Mr Trump announced a blanket pardon for about 1,500 of his supporters who attacked the US Capitol in 2021 as part of

The CIA now believes the COVID-19 pandemic is “more likely” to have originated from a laboratory leak in China than from animals. It follows the release of new analysis that began under the Biden administration at the request of former CIA director William Burns. For years, the CIA has said it is unclear whether COVID-19

Donald Trump has said he thinks Sir Keir Starmer has “done a very good job” so far and said the pair will speak over the phone “over the next 24 hours”. The US president said he and the prime minister “get along well” despite Sir Keir being “liberal, which is a little bit different from

Sir Winston Churchill died 60 years ago this week on 24 January 1965. His funeral took place on 30 January, following three days lying in state in the Palace of Westminster. It was the only occasion since the Second World War when a full state funeral was held for someone who was not a member

Sir Winston Churchill died 60 years ago this week on 24 January 1965. His funeral took place on 30 January, following three days lying in state in the Palace of Westminster. It was the only occasion since the Second World War when a full state funeral was held for someone who was not a member

A US woman has become the world’s longest-living recipient of a pig organ transplant, after living healthily with her new kidney for 61 days. Towana Looney, 53, received the experimental organ in November after spending nearly eight years on the organ transplant list with little hope of finding a match. She donated a kidney to

A US woman has become the world’s longest-living recipient of a pig organ transplant, after living healthily with her new kidney for 61 days. Towana Looney, 53, received the experimental organ in November after spending nearly eight years on the organ transplant list with little hope of finding a match. She donated a kidney to