Jude Sheerin BBC News, Washington Watch: Key moments from Trump’s first address to Congress President Donald Trump declared “the American Dream is unstoppable” as he addressed a raucous joint session of the US Congress for the first time since he […]
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Getty Images A lawyer for rapper Jay-Z has asked a court to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him, along with Sean “Diddy” Combs, of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000, after inconsistencies emerged in her allegation. An Alabama woman, named in
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Getty Images US rapper Jay-Z has hit back at a lawsuit which alleges that he, along with Sean “Diddy” Combs, drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl at a party in 2000. The anonymous accuser alleges she was assaulted at a
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Getty Images Trump begins his second presidential term in January and has told NBC he will issue a range of new executive orders President-elect Donald Trump has said he will look at pardons for those involved in the 2021 US
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President Joe Biden has said the US will try to bring home one of the longest-held American hostages following the sudden collapse of the Syrian government. Speaking at the White House, Biden said the US must first pinpoint the location
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Getty Images Eight tumultuous days after US President-elect Donald Trump picked Matt Gaetz to be attorney general, the firebrand congressman has withdrawn from consideration for the post. It was a nomination that stunned Washington and sent a shiver through the
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US President-elect Donald Trump has said he will not offer Nikki Haley or Mike Pompeo jobs in his administration, as he assembles his cabinet following a resounding election victory over Vice-President Kamala Harris. “I very much enjoyed and appreciated working
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The US’s biggest prize battleground state – why it matters Donald Trump has won North Carolina and Georgia and taken a lead over Kamala Harris in most of the other five battleground states that will decide the winner of the
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US Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz has admitted during a live television debate that he “misspoke” when he claimed he was in Hong Kong during the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Kamala Harris’ running mate was asked by a debate moderator
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One person has died after a gunman hijacked a Los Angeles bus on Wednesday, sparking a sprawling police chase that ended with a Swat team storming the vehicle. The armed suspect boarded the Metro bus, which had two other passengers
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