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A former ballerina has been found guilty of killing her estranged husband – in a case dubbed the “Black Swan” trial. Ashley Benefield was convicted of manslaughter at a Florida court on Tuesday over the fatal shooting of Doug Benefield in September 2020, Sky’s US partner NBC News reported. The 33-year-old had been charged with

US vice president Kamala Harris is now the only candidate seeking the presidential nomination, after a deadline passed with no one else qualifying. Some 99% of delegates signed Ms Harris’s nominating petition, according to the Democratic National Committee. It cements her position as the Democratic frontrunner for the 5 November election after President Joe Biden

The acting director of the US Secret Service has said he is “ashamed” of the security lapse prior to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Ronald Rowe Jr told a congressional hearing he had travelled to the site in Butler, Pennsylvania, and laid down on the roof from where the shots were fired. “What I

Donald Trump is going to be interviewed as part of the investigation into his own assassination attempt, the FBI has said. This comes as it emerged that police noticed gunman Thomas Crooks more than an hour before he opened fire – and even took a photo of him to share with other law enforcement officers.

Lady Gaga appears to be engaged to her boyfriend Michael Polansky after introducing him as “my fiance” at the Olympics. The singer performed at the opening ceremony of the Paris games on Friday night. And she may have revealed – by way of the French prime minister – that she and Polansky are set to

Kamala Harris’s election campaign has said it raised $200m (£156m) in the week since she became a presidential candidate. The US vice president‘s deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty said 66% of the funds were raised from new donors, while the campaign has signed up 170,000 new volunteers. US President Joe Biden, 81, withdrew from the

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has told a crowd of Christians they won’t have to vote again if they vote for him in November, saying “we’ll have it fixed so good”. The former president, who faces federal and state prosecution for his alleged attempts to overturn the US election result in 2020, was attending an

Three members of the US family gospel group The Nelons were among seven people killed in a plane crash in Wyoming. Kelly Nelon Clark, her husband Jason Clark, and their daughter, Amber Nelon Kistler died on Friday while taking a flight to perform on a cruise ship. Nelon Kistler’s husband, Nathan Kistler, family friend Melodi

Donald Trump’s running mate has defended comments in which he said the Democratic Party was run “by a bunch of childless cat ladies”. JD Vance’s remarks, from a 2021 Fox News interview, were reposted earlier this week by Friends star Jennifer Aniston. The actress used the clip to criticise his opposition to a law making

Audiences for Veep, the TV series broadcast on Sky, have shot up since Kamala Harris became the Democratic candidate for the White House. Like Selina Meyer, the fictional vice president in the show, she is closer than ever to becoming the first woman president. The prospect is tantalising for Harris but the omens are not

Former president Barack Obama told Kamala Harris he “couldn’t be prouder” as he endorsed her to replace Joe Biden as the Democratic candidate for the US election. Mr Obama had so far remained quiet after other top Democrats gave the US vice president their backing in the days after Mr Biden pulled out of the

Kamala Harris said she will “not be silent” over the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza following a meeting with Israel’s prime minister. The probable Democratic Party nominee as presidential candidate said she raised “serious concerns” with Benjamin Netanyahu in discussions at the White House on Thursday. The meeting came after Mr Netanyahu met Mr Biden,

Jennifer Aniston has hit out at Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance for referring to women without children as “cat ladies”. The actress shared a clip from a 2021 Fox News interview with Mr Vance on her Instagram story, in which he said: “We’re effectively run in this country… by a bunch of childless cat

Joe Biden has said he couldn’t let his “personal ambition” stand in the way of “saving our democracy” in a live address to the nation from the Oval office -his first speech since announcing his decision to drop out of the presidential race.  The 81-year-old president, who on Sunday abandoned his bid for a second

Bodycam footage shows law enforcement officers gathered near the body of the man who was shot dead after trying to assassinate Donald Trump. The video has emerged as the former president plans to no longer hold outdoor rallies following the attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, sources familiar with his campaign’s operations have told

British astronaut Tim Peake has said the Boeing test pilots stuck on the International Space Station (ISS) are in no danger, despite uncertainty over how or when they will return to Earth. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams flew the first crewed mission of the aerospace giant’s Starliner spacecraft to the ISS in early June. But

New bodycam footage shows the final moments of a woman who called police over a suspected intruder before she was shot in the head by an officer. Sonya Massey, 36, died after calling the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office about a suspected intruder outside her home in Springfield on 6 July, Illinois State Police have said.

Kamala Harris has started her first full day of campaigning in the White House race as she vowed to win November’s presidential election. The US vice president and expected Democrat nominee made the remarks on X a day after Mr Biden announced he was quitting the 2024 contest and throwing his weight behind his number

Joe Biden has vowed “I’m not going anywhere” and he is “going to be working like hell” in his final months as US president and as he campaigns for Kamala Harris to be his successor. He was speaking in a phone call to workers at the campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, in his first public

Kamala Harris has hit the ground running as she battles to replace Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee, securing the backing of several top party figures. Half an hour after announcing his decision to drop out of the US election, Mr Biden endorsed his vice president and told his party it was time to