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A concert by US rock band Jane’s Addiction ended early after lead singer Perry Farrell punched guitarist Dave Navarro on stage in the middle of a song. Videos posted on social media showed Farrell, 65, becoming upset as they played their 1986 song Ocean Size in Boston on Friday night. The singer is filmed walking

Laura Loomer, a right-wing conspiracy theorist who believes 9/11 was an inside job, has joined Donald Trump on the campaign trail in recent days, a move that has raised eyebrows among his Republican supporters. Ms Loomer, 31, is banned on nearly every social media platform, from Instagram and Twitter, and claims even Uber and Chase

​​​​​​​The Pope has told American Catholics to “choose the lesser evil” as he criticised both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Pope Francis launched the surprise intervention in the US election on his flight from Singapore to Rome on Friday. He was critical of vice president Harris over her stance supporting abortion rights, claiming the procedure

The moment Donald Trump uttered the words at the debate on Tuesday night I knew I’d be off to Springfield. And so here I am, with a dispatch from a once unremarkable small American town that’s now utterly remarkable, if you believe the claim. “They’re eating the dogs! They’re eating the cats! They’re eating the

Justin Timberlake has pleaded guilty to a non-criminal traffic violation of driving while impaired following his arrest in June. The 43-year-old appeared in person at Sag Harbor Village Court in the Hamptons, New York state, on Friday to enter the new plea. The judge sentenced Timberlake to a $500 (£380) fine with a $260 surcharge

The father of an 11-year-old boy killed in a road crash has attacked politicians, including Donald Trump, for exploiting his son’s death for political gain. Aiden Clark from Springfield, Ohio, was killed in August last year when a vehicle driven by a Haitian immigrant struck his school bus. His father has spoken out after Mr

It’s the talk of the town. I passed a couple walking their dog in Doylestown, Bucks County, nodded hello and complemented their pet. They responded that they planned to “eat him for breakfast”. It’s how the moment of the presidential debate has gone down here – comedy gold, even if it isn’t everyone who sees

Former president Donald Trump and vice president Kamala Harris engaged in a fiery debate ahead of the US election on 5 November. The stakes were high for both candidates heading into the showdown at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Here are some of the key takeaways from the debate: Project 2025 Donald Trump insisted

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have clashed over issues including abortion, the economy and illegal immigration in their first – and possibly only – debate before the US election. Ms Harris’s attacks appeared to get under her rival’s skin at times, claiming people left his rallies out of “boredom” and Russian President Vladimir Putin “would

Kamala Harris was a prosecutor for far longer than she’s been a politician. Harris’s lengthy career in law started in 1990 when she became a deputy district attorney specialising in prosecuting child sexual assault offenders. It ran until 2017 when she was overseeing the largest state justice department in the country as attorney general of

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris face intense scrutiny in the remaining two months of the US election campaign. Ever since Ms Harris became the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee with Joe Biden’s historic announcement he would not seek re-election, she has enjoyed a rapid ascent in polling. But momentum can swing quickly in an election campaign,

The presidential election on 5 November is set to be the tightest race since at least 2000. Kamala Harris currently holds a slender lead over Donald Trump, according to the latest polls. But the US election is not all about who wins the most votes overall, it’s about who wins in the right states. How

Fresh off a number-one single and a feud with Drake, Kendrick Lamar has announced he will perform at next year’s Super Bowl. The Humble hitmaker will take to the stage during the halftime show at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, on 9 February. In a video announcing the news on YouTube, Lamar is

A manhunt is under way after at least seven people were injured when a gunman opened fire on cars on a highway in Kentucky, causing scenes described as “a madhouse”. Police said the suspect, who remains at large, should be considered “armed and dangerous” and people have been urged to stay in their homes. The

A British teenager has become the first tennis player from the UK to win a US Open junior title in 15 years. Mika Stojsavljevic, 15, beat her Japanese opponent Wakana Sonobe 6-4 6-4 to lift the championship cup in New York on Saturday. Stojsavljevic’s victory came 24 hours after Jack Draper’s semi-final defeat to world

Sir Keir Starmer will travel to Washington this coming week for a bilateral meeting with President Biden. The trip to the White House, on Friday, will be the prime minister’s second visit since he was elected in July. In a statement, the White House said the leaders would focus on “global issues of mutual interest”.

Former vice president and longtime Republican Dick Cheney has said he will vote for Kamala Harris in this year’s US election. The 83-year-old issued a statement announcing he will be backing the Democratic candidate because her Republican rival Donald Trump can “never be trusted with power again”. Mr Cheney has been an outspoken critic of

A stronger performance for job creation in the United States appears to have eased financial market fears of a US recession. Closely-watched employment data showed that 142,000 net new jobs were created in the world’s largest economy last month. While that was below forecasts of 160,00, it represented a significant recovery on a downwardly revised

A video seized by British detectives from an early 9/11 suspect 23 years ago raises a series of questions, says a survivor of the attacks. The previously-unseen film was shot by the suspect as he wandered around US government buildings in Washington DC two years before the hijackers struck. He filmed the White House, the

A 14-year-old boy has been arrested after allegedly shooting dead two students and two teachers at a high school in the US. A gunman opened fire at Apalachee High School in Georgia on Wednesday morning, leading dozens of police officers to swarm the campus as students and teachers rushed to an American football field for