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Donald Trump has touted a $4 billion Audi plant in Georgia while defending his tariffs. The remarks linked the car plant to the former president’s argument for tariffs, though no further details were provided.

President Donald Trump is due to hold a midterm election rally in Port Huron, Michigan, on Sunday, October 25, with FOX 2 Detroit scheduled to conduct a private interview with him before the event. The rally will take place at McMorran Place Arena, where doors are due to open at 11.30am and Mr Trump is expected to begin speaking at 3pm local time. The event is being organised by the Michigan Republican Party and tickets are required to attend. FOX 2 Detroit said its coverage of the presidential visit will begin at 1.30pm, ahead of the rally and the planned…

Helen Haines’ parliamentary colleagues will pay tribute to the independent MP after she suffered life-altering injuries in a car attack. MPs will pay their respects to Ms Haines in Parliament following the incident, in which she was critically injured.

Thomas O’Donnell has been found guilty of murdering Mike Harding at a remote Kentucky property after prosecutors said he lured the HVAC business owner to his death as part of a conspiracy involving Harding’s estranged wife, Julie. A jury in Cumberland County took two hours to convict O’Donnell following a five-day trial. He was sentenced to life in prison, with the possibility of parole after 20 years. Harding, 48, was found dead in September 2022 at a vacant three-building property in Burkesville, near the Kentucky-Tennessee border. He had been shot four times, including twice in the head. His body was…

Bulgarians are voting in a presidential election shaped by Russia’s war in Ukraine and a series of deadly drone strikes on merchant ships in the Black Sea off the country’s coast. President Iliana Iotova, 61, and former caretaker prime minister Andrey Gyurov, 50, are the leading candidates in a field of 27. Both have condemned the attacks, but they hold markedly different positions on the wider conflict. The presidency is largely ceremonial, although the directly elected office carries significant political influence. The president leads the armed forces, can veto legislation, sign international treaties and appoint ambassadors, while major policies require…

Cynthia Erivo spoofed her own role in Wicked by playing Glinda in a sketch on Saturday Night Live UK. The 39-year-old three-time Oscar nominee, who hosted the latest episode over the weekend, appeared in a blonde wig and pink tracksuit alongside Ayoade Bamgboye as Elphaba. Erivo played Elphaba opposite Ariana Grande’s Glinda in the film. While the characters express their rivalry through song in Wicked, the sketch took a more physical and comic approach, with Glinda slapping Elphaba and calling her “very classless”. The exchange also included a joke about being unable to afford Elphaba’s makeover, with Glinda suggesting that…

Barack Obama has mocked Donald Trump’s White House renovations, saying the presidential residence now looked as if “Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory” during a campaign rally in Cleveland, Ohio. The former president made the remark while supporting Democratic candidates Amy Acton and Sherrod Brown at Cleveland Public Auditorium on Saturday, 24 October, ten days before Ohio’s midterm elections. “I mean, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but he seems very focused on home renovations,” Mr Obama told the crowd. “He should be on HGTV.” He then listed the White House ballroom project, changes to the Rose Garden and an…

Nationals MP David Littleproud has revealed that his children have been threatened with violence in the past, as Australia grapples with the alleged attack on Helen Haines this week. Mr Littleproud disclosed the threats against his own family amid the response to the shocking alleged incident involving the MP.

Disneyland visitors were caught in a sudden torrential downpour in Anaheim, California, on Friday night, with rides temporarily closed, flooding reported across parts of the park and the evening fireworks display cancelled. The National Weather Service issued a flood advisory for Orange County, which includes Disneyland, at 7.28 local time. It remained in force until 9.30. Videos shared by parkgoers showed water pouring through outdoor restaurants and tented areas, while visitors in plastic ponchos moved through standing water as drains struggled to cope with the rainfall. Footage posted by the Disneylanders account showed lightning and thunder over Tomorrowland before heavy…

Connie Britton has spoken about the painstaking face-alteration process behind her dual role in Hulu’s new series Phony, in which she appears as the mother of Sam Nivola’s character and an apparent impostor. The coming-of-age mystery follows a teenager who wakes in hospital after a car accident and discovers that his mother — his only parent and closest friend — seems to have been replaced. Connie Britton’s face transformation for Phony Britton, 59, initially underwent a prosthetics process for the role. However, the production team decided the results did not provide the subtlety and detail required. “We started with prosthetics,”…