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Robert F Kennedy Jr, the nephew of the assassinated former president John F Kennedy, has announced he will challenge Joe Biden to be the Democratic nominee for the White House next year. He has filed a statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission, becoming the second person to announce themselves as a challenger to

Taiwan’s peace and democracy are facing “unprecedented challenges”, its president has said, on a visit to the US which will anger China. Tsai Ing-wen has held talks with both Democrat and Republican congressional leaders at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, against a backdrop of rising tensions with Beijing, which claims the island nation

A tornado has caused “multiple injuries and multiple deaths” in Missouri, US officials have said. The tornado moved through Bollinger County, about 50 miles south of St Louis, on Wednesday morning, said Sergeant Clark Parrott of the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Officials said a search and rescue operation had been launched and it was currently

Donald Trump has claimed he is the victim of election interference, as he condemned New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg for bringing criminal charges against him – speaking just hours after his arraignment. The former US president delivered an address to a crowd of some 500 people in his Mar-a-Lago estate ballroom in Florida after

Donald Trump has left his Florida home to travel to New York ahead of his unprecedented court appearance tomorrow. The former US president is expected to stay at Trump Tower in Manhattan before turning himself in to authorities on Tuesday. He is expected to be booked and arraigned on charges stemming from hush money payments

Donald Trump is set to appear at a court in Manhattan for his arraignment over alleged hush money paid to a porn actress before the 2016 election. Trump, the first former US president to face criminal charges, is due to be arraigned, fingerprinted and photographed this morning. The arraignment, which refers to the formal reading

The Chinese spy balloon that flew over the US was able to gather intelligence from several sensitive American military sites, officials have said. China was able to steer the surveillance balloon so it could make multiple passes over some of the sites and transmit the information it collected back to Beijing in real time, NBC has

A former US governor has thrown down the gauntlet to Donald Trump by announcing he is running against him in the race for president. Asa Hutchinson said people want leaders that “appeal to the best of America” and not “our worst instincts”. The former Arkansas governor is offering himself as an alternative for Republicans ready

A group of news organisations has launched a bid to allow cameras into court when Donald Trump makes an unprecedented appearance on Tuesday. The group, which includes NBC News, The Associated Press and The New York Times, have also asked judge Juan Merchan to immediately unseal the indictment against the former US president. On Friday,

A missing two-year-old has been found dead after his body was spotted in the mouth of an alligator. Taylen Mosley was reported missing on Thursday after his mother, 20-year-old Pashun Jeffery, was found dead in her apartment in St Petersburg, Florida. She had been stabbed multiple times, police said on Friday. The child’s father, Thomas

Two people were killed and dozens of people injured after a tornado ripped through the Arkansas capital of Little Rock and surrounding US towns on Friday afternoon. Elsewhere, a third person died after a theatre roof collapsed in Belvidere, Illinois, during another tornado with 28 people injured as the Midwest struggles with intense and destructive

The adult actress at the centre of Donald Trump’s indictment says the legal process will spark violence but that it shows that the former president is no longer untouchable. Stormy Daniels also says she has received death threats since the facts of the charges were made public. Speaking to The Times, she said: “Whatever the

In the midst of a comeback, it is quite the comedown. The courthouse in New York’s Bowery district – aka ‘Skid Row’ before its gentrification – has seen its share of society’s sad cases through the years. A former president could hardly fall any further. And yet its to this setting that Donald Trump will

Several people have reportedly died after two military helicopters crashed in Kentucky. Crew members were flying two HH60 Blackhawk helicopters during a routine training mission before the crash at Fort Campbell at around 10pm local time on Wednesday (3am on Thursday UK time), the military base has said in a statement. The statement adds that

On the southeast coast of South Korea its military is rehearsing. It’s simulating the storming of a contested beach. Waves of KAAV amphibious assault vehicles crash on to the sand, groups of infantry disembark and run to take up positions. It is an impressive display with a precise focus, to defend peace on this peninsula.

Graphic video has been released of the moment the Nashville school attacker was shot dead by police. Bodycam footage shows Officer Rex Engelbert opening fire several times on Audrey Elizabeth Hale before the perpetrator falls to the ground injured. Police then head towards 28-year-old Hale just a few metres away as officers shout “move, move”,