Kylie Morris

In the first public action by special Counsel Robert Mueller, charges have been laid against three former Donald Trump aides, including his ex-campaign chairman. Paul Manafort, and his business partner Richard Gates, have been indicted by a federal grand jury, accused of ‘conspiracy against the United States’, and ‘conspiracy to launder money’. Both have pleaded not…

Jeff Flake has joined other senior party figures such as John McCain and Senator Bob Corker, who have started a mini rebellion against the President. But this may just harm the traditional wing of their own party more than Mr Trump’s presidency.

For 12 days, President Trump remained silent about the deaths of four US soldiers in Niger. Two days ago, he was asked why. He answered by accusing former presidents of not calling the families of fallen soldiers, saying he’d written letters and would call. Now he has called the widow of one of the soldiers,…

In the last few hours more allegations have emerged against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. He was sacked by the board of his own company two days ago after a string of women made allegations that he had sexually harassed them.

President Trump has arrived in Las Vegas to meet some of those caught up in Tuesday night’s mass shooting that left 59 dead and hundreds injured. Meanwhile, police investigating the gunman’s motives are now questioning his girlfriend, who has arrived back from a trip to the Philippines.

Ben Bunker, an expert in US firearms law, discusses the Las Vegas shootings.

Tony Dumbleton, a British fireman in Las Vegas with his wife, discusses what he experienced.

A “sick man, a demented man.” Those were the words Donald Trump used to describe Stephen Paddock, who killed 59 people and injured more than 500 in Las Vegas. What detectives are struggling to understand is Paddock’s motivation. Why did the 64-year-old amass an arsenal of more than 20 weapons in his 32nd-storey hotel room and turn them…

America is “joined together in sadness, shock and grief,” said a clearly stunned President Trump, telling families of those who died in Las Vegas: “We cannot imagine your loss.” The killer, Stephen Paddock, was found dead by police as they stormed the hotel room he’d been firing from, together with up to ten weapons. A…

The US has ordered half its Havana embassy personnel to leave, warned Americans not to travel to Cuba and suspended the processing of visas there, following mysterious “health attacks” targeting US diplomats.

Even by Donald Trump’s standards, it’s been quite a start to the week. His attacks on sportsmen who have knelt in protest during the national anthem have continued, drawing criticism that he has neglected the struggles of three million US citizens in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria. Today he announced he’ll visit there on Tuesday. The President has…

North Korea has said it regards itself at war with America and threatened to shoot down US airplanes after President Trump’s comments about Kim Jong-un last week. The threat comes on the day President Trump added three more countries to his US travel ban – North Korea, Venezuela and Chad. He’s also started a fight…

Theresa May has been speaking to the United Nations.

After President Trump’s outspoken attack on Iran at the United Nations yesterday, in which he accused its government of masking “a corrupt dictatorship behind the false guise of a democracy”, and threatened to walk away from a landmark nuclear deal, Iran’s President had his own say today, telling the UN Iran was unmoved by threats and…

At the United Nations General Assembly, a platform President Trump once decried but now bestrode, he threatened to totally destroy North Korea and mocked Kim Jong-un, saying “Rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself”. He accused Iran of being intent on destabilising the Middle East, and denounced socialism. It only brought  “anguish, devastation…