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Ukraine has agreed terms with the United States on a crucial minerals deal, a Ukrainian government source has told Sky News. There has been no confirmation from the US side yet but Donald Trump said on Monday evening that his Ukrainian counterpart “would like to sign the minerals deal with me”. The accord, once signed,

Donald Trump is ramping up pressure on his Ukrainian counterpart to sign away up to 50% of its mineral supplies. Amid concerns Mr Trump would withdraw aid if elected, during a meeting at Trump Tower in September, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reportedly proposed a US stake in Ukrainian minerals in exchange for more weapons. But

Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who leapt onto John F Kennedy’s limousine after he was shot, has died aged 93. According to his publisher Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, the former security official died on Friday at his home in Belvedere, California. His wife Lisa McCubbin Hill, a journalist who met

The US joined Russia to vote against a UN resolution on the Ukraine war – and abstained from voting on one it drafted after amendments proposed by European countries were added. The 193-member assembly approved a US-drafted resolution, marking the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which had originally called for an end to

Donald Trump the president is still Donald Trump the businessman. For the president of the United States, everything is transactional, even the business of ending the war in Ukraine. Under the agreement, he wants Ukraine to grant America access to its mineral and oil resources as payback for wartime aid. This deal-making approach aligns with

Donald Trump has said a deal for Ukraine’s rare earth metals is “pretty close” and the US is targeting “anything we can get” in exchange for the aid it’s provided. Mr Trump told a conference he was determined to get payback for billions of dollars of military hardware and other assistance. However, a source has

Donald Trump has purged top military figures in the Pentagon, including firing America’s most senior commander. He also pushed out five other admirals and generals in an unprecedented shake-up of US military leadership. The Pentagon had been bracing for mass firings of civilian staff as well as a dramatic overhaul of its budget and a

A Hawaii man who spent 30 years in prison for a murder celebrated “Freedom Friday” after a judge ordered him to be released because of new DNA evidence. There were gasps and cries when Judge Kirstin Hamman said “the sentence is vacated and the defendant is ordered to be released from custody”. She ruled that

A new trial for Lyle and Erik Menendez, after 35 years in prison for the shotgun murder of their parents, has been turned down by the Los Angeles County District Attorney. However, Nathan Hochman said a decision had not been made on a resentencing bid that could lead to their release. The brothers were found

Dozens of supporters were outside court as the man accused of fatally shooting the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare made his first appearance. Luigi Mangione has pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of murder following the 4 December killing of Brian Thompson, 50, outside a midtown Manhattan hotel. The 26-year-old is accused of ambushing and shooting

Steve Bannon has denied making a Nazi salute at a conservative gathering, insisting the gesture was just a wave. The one-time chief strategist for Donald Trump was onstage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland on Thursday evening. During his speech, he extended his right arm in the air, his palm flat, after imploring

👉 Follow Trump 100 on your podcast app 👈 As President Trump claims he is “close” to signing a mining deal with Ukraine, and his secretary of state Marco Rubio talks about a lack of “gratitude” from President Zelenskyy for US military assistance, our US correspondents Mark Stone, Martha Kelner and James Matthews discuss if

Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not ready to accept a minerals deal with the US as Ukraine sees a “number of problematic issues” with the draft agreement, according to a Ukrainian source. Donald Trump had said a deal was close, but a source with knowledge of the negotiations told Sky News the Ukrainian president is not ready

Seven people have been injured, three critically, after a suspected gas explosion at a popular beach resort in Hawaii, according to police and video footage. The injured range in age from 18 to 74, police said, following Thursday night’s blast in a barbeque grill area at The Whaler. The explosion left a pile of debris

Apple’s decision to withdraw its most secure cloud storage service from the UK is just the latest turning point in a battle that has been rumbling on between US tech companies and successive British governments for some time. The dispute centres on end-to-end encryption, a method of secure communication which enables only the sender and

Canada’s prime minister has hit out at Donald Trump’s comments about annexing the country, saying “you can’t take our country, and you can’t take our game”, in the wake of a major ice hockey win. On Thursday, Canada beat the United States to win the 4 Nations hockey tournament, with the tense action on the

A woman who accused Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs of raping her in 2000 when she was 13 has dismissed her civil lawsuit against the hip-hop moguls. A filing in federal court in Manhattan said the plaintiff, referred to as Jane Doe, voluntarily dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning she cannot bring it again. Tony

👉 Follow Trump 100 on your podcast app 👈 As Donald Trump’s vice president JD Vance launches a blistering attack on the European allies in a speech at the Munich Security Conference, US correspondents Mark Stone, Martha Kelner and James Matthews discuss why was he talking with the leader of Germany’s far-right AfD party? And,

The US State Department spent $24,000 (£19,000) to fund an Irish college’s film project promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Earlier this month the Trump administration described a separate grant of $70,000 (£56,000) for a “DEI musical” in Ireland as “crap” that US taxpayer money was “wasted on”, as it continues to dismantle the United

The White House Instagram account has caused a stir after posting a Valentine’s message – targeting illegal immigrants. On a day set aside for love and romance, the post came with the less-than-pleasant message: “Rose are red, violets are blue, come here illegally and we will deport you.” It featured the faces of President Donald