Elon Musk is set to interview Donald Trump on the social media platform X. Mr Musk teased the “live conversation” with Mr Trump, saying it would be “unscripted” and therefore “highly entertaining”. The former US president – whose account on X (when it was known as Twitter) was suspended in 2021 after his supporters stormed the US Capitol – returned ...
Scientists say there could be water on Mars underground, and more than enough to fill the planet’s oceans. Scientists from California universities San Diego and Berkeley say evidence suggests there is a large reservoir of liquid water under the planet’s surface. Using data from NASA’s InSight lander – which carried out a four-year-long mission that ended in 2022 – they ...
A vaccine rollout against a common lung disease could prevent 5,000 babies a year being admitted to hospital, according to public health experts. Population modelling led by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) suggests that the jab against Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) infection could also avoid 200 infants needing intensive care. From next month, women past the 28th week of ...
UK stargazers hoping to see the Perseids meteor shower last night were treated to an extra show when the northern lights appeared. The Perseids meteor shower, which NASA describes as the “best meteor shower of the year”, peaked overnight on Monday. That meant stargazers could expect to see up to 100 meteors an hour, as Earth passed through the most ...
The first person who I noticed spreading the idea that images of Vice President Kamala Harris’s rally in Michigan had been manipulated was conservative moviemaker Dinesh D’Souza. On Saturday evening, D’Souza posted a photo on social media of Harris exiting her airplane with a crowd of supporters looking on. Two reflections from the airplane were circled in red, illustrating that, ...
Later this month, thousands of members of a massive international constituency plan to join a conference call in support of Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential bid. Other such calls have convened Black women, White men, Republicans and even (in a nod to past comments from Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance) cat ladies. But the group getting on the phone in ...
Authorities are investigating a burglary at former president Donald Trump’s campaign office in Ashburn, Va., after reviewing surveillance footage showing a man inside with a backpack strapped to his chest on Sunday. The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office said it responded to the burglary report about 9 p.m. Sunday and that a video showed a man inside wearing a dark baseball ...
A Colorado jury on Monday found a former county election official guilty of seven charges connected to allowing a purported computer expert to copy election data from her office as Donald Trump and his allies spread false claims that the 2020 election was stolen and searched for evidence to prove it. Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk, was found ...
A New York judge ruled Monday that independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will not appear on the state’s ballot in November after he falsely claimed that he lived at a friend’s house in New York on his qualifying petitions. While Kennedy had claimed he lived in a spare bedroom of his friend’s Katonah, N.Y. home, he had stayed ...
GOP vice-presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) has been attacking Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, at every turn. We’ve dealt with some of his more substantive policy attacks, but here’s a quick roundup of some of the sillier false claims he’s made. A Vance spokesman did not respond to a request to provide evidence for these claims, ...