Donald Trump will be sworn in as US president on 20 January in Washington DC, his second run at the biggest job in politics. A national holiday thanks to the fact it coincides with Martin Luther King Jr Day, spectators can expect a day full of pomp, pageantry and entertainment. Image: Donald Trump and his
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A series of ferocious wildfires erupted across the Los Angeles area on Tuesday, fuelled by powerful winds and dry conditions. At least five people have been killed and dozens more injured, with many of the remaining fires not contained at all by the emergency services. Some 130,000 people are now under mandatory evacuation orders across
A reality TV personality known for appearing on shows like The Hills and Made In Chelsea has told Sky News her family have lost their homes in the California wildfires. Stephanie Pratt, a model and the sister of fellow reality TV celebrity Spencer Pratt, lives in the Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles, where more than
A real-life drama is unfolding just outside Hollywood. Ferocious wildfires have ballooned at an “alarming speed”, in just a matter of hours. Why? What caused the California wildfires? There are currently three wildfires torching southern California. The causes of all three are still being investigated. The majority (85%) of all forest fires across the United
Firefighters in California are battling a fast-moving wildfire which is sweeping an exclusive Los Angeles hillside dotted with celebrity homes. Officials say the wildfire is being fanned by gusts from a “life-threatening” and “destructive” wind storm hitting southern California. Image: Pic: AP Image: Pic: AP Fire crews are battling a handful of small blazes in
It’s the news story of the day here. The fact America’s Congress hasn’t been laid siege to shouldn’t be a story at all – the fact it is tells you all you need to know about US politics. In Washington DC, they’ve been preparing for this January 6th since the January 6th that came to
US president-elect Donald Trump has had his victory certified by his defeated rival, Kamala Harris. Under the tightest national security level, Ms Harris, who lost to Mr Trump following November’s election, presided over the certification of the 78-year-old Republican’s victory in Congress. After Congress went through all the certificates for the 50 US states and
New Orleans attacker Shamsud-Din Jabbar recorded a video of the city’s French Quarter using Meta glasses he wore while cycling in the weeks before his deadly atrocity, the FBI has said. The bureau said he had made two trips to the southern US city in October and November this year. He killed 14 people when
New Orleans has held a vigil to mourn the lives of the 14 people killed when a truck was driven into revellers celebrating the new year. Some of the relatives of those killed were among those who gathered on Saturday night on Bourbon Street, the famous French Quarter thoroughfare where the attack took place, The
A major winter storm has hit America, producing heavy snow and significant ice which is expected to last days. Road conditions have become increasingly dangerous in the central US since Saturday, with snow in the most heavily affected regions – Kansas and northern Missouri – predicted to reach as high as 35.6cm. Some 60 million
Six days of funeral events are under way for the former US president Jimmy Carter. The 100-year-old Democrat, who served one term in office from 1977 to 1981, died at his home in Plains, Georgia, surrounded by his family on 29 December. He was the oldest living former US president. A motorcade with his flag-draped
A British citizen is one of 14 people who were killed when a man drove a truck into crowds celebrating the New Year in New Orleans. The city’s coroner said the preliminary cause of death for the British citizen was blunt force injuries. Their identity has been temporarily withheld at the request of the family
A judge has ordered US president-elect Donald Trump to be sentenced next week in his New York hush money case – but has suggested he will not jail him. In a surprise move, Trump‘s sentencing in the case has been set for 10 January – a little over a week before his inauguration on 20
Did the authorities fail the victims of the New Orleans terror attack? It’s barely in question, surely. And yet, consider the response of Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick of New Orleans police when I asked if she’d let them down by not having an appropriate security plan. “That’s not correct, we would disagree with that.” “It has
The brother of a victim of the New Orleans attack has revealed what the pair last said to each other. “The last thing we ever said to each other, he told me he loved me”, Jack Bech said of his brother Martin “Tiger” Bech, 27, as he spoke with Sky News’s US correspondent James Matthews.
A Tesla cybertruck explosion outside one of Donald Trump’s US hotels is being investigated as a potential terror attack. The driver, who was inside the vehicle when it caught fire, died in the incident and seven other people were injured. The blast happened as the truck was just outside the president-elect’s hotel in Las Vegas,
At least 10 people have been killed after a vehicle struck a crowd celebrating the New Year in New Orleans, emergency officials have said. Another 30 people have been injured in the incident, which took place on the corner of the popular Bourbon Street, in the French Quarter of the city. It happened at around
A Rolex stolen from John Wick star Keanu Reeves has been found in Chile, according to police in the South American country. The watch, which is believed to have been taken from the Hollywood actor in Los Angeles in December 2023, was discovered after an arrest linked to crimes in the nation’s capital Santiago. Pictures
A woman who died this month after being set on fire inside a New York subway train has been identified by police as a 57-year-old woman from New Jersey. The woman, Debrina Kawam, was registered to an address in Toms River, New Jersey, according to New York Police Department (NYPD). Officials had previously said they
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have reached a settlement after eight years in one of the longest and most bitter divorces in Hollywood history. In a statement, Jolie’s attorney James Simon said: “More than eight years ago, Angelina filed for divorce from Mr Pitt. “She and the children left all of the properties they had