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Facebook has deleted a post by Donald Trump – which said children are “almost immune” from the coronavirus – for breaking its misinformation rules on the subject. Twitter also temporarily froze his official campaign account @TeamTrump until the same clip was removed. The offending posts contained a Fox News video in which Mr Trump made

Neil Young is suing Donald Trump’s re-election campaign for copyright infringement, alleging that his music has been used at the president’s rallies without his permission. The 74-year-old star said that he could not allow his work to be used as a “theme song for a divisive, un-American campaign of ignorance and hate”. In a complaint

Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds has apologised for holding his wedding with Blake Lively at a former slave plantation. The Deadpool and Gossip Girl stars got married in 2012 at Boone Hall, South Carolina, which Reynolds now admits was a “giant f****** mistake”. The 43-year-old told Fast Company website it was something “we’ll always be deeply

Hundreds of thousands of people are without power after Hurricane Isaias made landfall in the US, bringing with it winds of 85mph and the threat of storm surges and flash floods. By the time the eye of Isaias hit southern North Carolina it had strengthened into a category one hurricane from a tropical storm. It

COVID-19 has had some very stark and very obvious consequences. The US has less than five percent of the world’s population but almost a quarter of its coronavirus fatalities. But there is also a hidden horror unfolding here and it may soon get even worse. Image: Sky News visited the St Vincent’s Hospital in Westchester,

A teenager who vanished last month after she ran out of petrol has been found alive in a remote section of the Cascade Mountains in the US. King County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Ryan Abbott said it was a “miracle” that 18-year-old Giovanna Fuda was discovered on Saturday after a week-long search. Mr Abbott said she

NASA and SpaceX have successfully brought astronauts back from the International Space Station with the first ocean landing in 45 years. Astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken returned safely, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico, 40 miles off Florida, early on Sunday evening. Behnken called their trip “quite an odyssey”, as Space X founder

Two NASA astronauts are due to return to Earth with a rare splashdown off Florida, as a powerful storm heads towards the state. Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley left the International Space Station in the early hours of Sunday for the final and most important part of their SpaceX test flight on the Crew Dragon.

A hurricane ripped shingles off roofs and blew over trees as it battered the Bahamas before heading to the Florida coast. Officials in Miami are closing beaches, marinas and parks ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Isaias. Miami mayor Carlos Gimenez said 20 evacuation centres were on standby that could be set up with COVID-19

A basketball player has become the first NBA star not to kneel during the national anthem as part of the Black Lives Matter movement since the league restarted on Thursday. Jonathan Isaac, a forward with Orlando Magic and an ordained minister, was also the first NBA player not to wear a Black Lives Matter shirt

Virginia Giuffre was made to have sex with a mystery prince, according to recently unsealed court documents. Ms Giuffre claims she was a victim of late financier and convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. She has previously said she was made to have sex when she was 17 with Prince Andrew, who categorically denies any sexual contact

Dozens of new documents have been unsealed relating to Ghislaine Maxwell’s dealings with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. It comes as she prepares to defend herself against accusations that she aided the financier’s sexual abuse of girls. Among the documents released is a series of email exchanges between Maxwell and Epstein said to date from January 2015

US civil rights hero John Lewis has been laid to rest, with three former presidents paying tribute to a man hailed as a “true American patriot”. Mr Lewis, a long-time member of the House of Representatives, died earlier this month at the age of 80. He had announced in December that he had been diagnosed

Donald Trump has suggested a delay to November’s presidential election, claiming it will be the “most inaccurate and fraudulent in history”. However, election dates are set by the US Congress and are enshrined in federal law – meaning they would require an act of Congress to change. There are also no constitutional provisions for a

Leaders of Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple have appeared in front of a House committee in the US to defend themselves against claims they have too much power. The companies, which have a joint market value of more than $5trn (£3.8trn), are facing threats of further regulation in the US, with conservative politicians claiming the

Donald Trump walked out of a daily briefing after being questioned about his support for a doctor who reportedly claimed alien DNA is used in medical treatments. The US president retweeted a video on Tuesday in which Dr Stella Immanuel claimed people didn’t need to wear masks and there was a cure for COVID-19. The