Siobhan Kennedy , Washington Correspondent

After a week in which his death became a lightning rod for many Americans’ frustration with their healthcare – and his suspected killer became a cult hero for some on the internet – a 26-year-old man is now in custody and charged with murder.

While US bombers were targeting ISIS targets in Syria, President Biden was saying the fall of the Assad regime presents an ‘opportunity’.

The killing of the boss of one of America’s biggest health insurers on a Manhattan street hasn’t prompted an outpouring of sympathy online but an outpouring of hate. 

In the US, Donald Trump’s nominees for key positions in his next administration have been pressing the flesh in Washington, as they seek to persuade Senators they can be trusted with the most powerful jobs in the land.

President Biden repeatedly said he wouldn’t interfere in his son’s legal proceedings.

Mr Trump has portrayed his tariffs as an effort to force China, Mexico and Canada to crack down on illegal immigration and drug smuggling into the US.

Next week Donald Trump was due to face his reckoning with the law – sentenced before a Manhattan court for 43 counts of falsifying business records. Instead, that’s on hold – and he’s deciding who should oversee America’s justice system.

One of Donald Trump’s contentious picks for cabinet, Matt Gaetz has withdrawn his name from consideration as Attorney General.

He has no medical qualifications and has been a prolific spreader of health misinformation, but the anti-vaccine campaigner Robert F. Kennedy Jr ran a presidential campaign that garnered support from hundreds of thousands of Americans.

The second series of the Trump Show is proving just as wild and unpredictable as the first. This time he will be more powerful as he will be backed by Republican control of Congress.

The sweary insults and dark warnings have been swapped for small talk and handshakes. 

Donald Trump has continued to drip feed announcements about his new administration.

The Democratic Party of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris has been engaging in the bitter rituals of the loser in a democratic election. 

After the 2016 election Donald Trump was seen in Washington DC as an aberration. After January 6th 2021, his opponents imagined him in a cell, not the oval office. Now the voters of this nation have given Trump another chance. 

Kamala Harris has yet to speak in public and concede. She was a no-show at her own election party overnight, and her campaign, which promised such optimism and hope, has ended in defeat.