Kylie Morris

Donald Trump Junior, the US President’s eldest son, has released emails tonight that show correspondence between him and an intermediary discussing damaging material, apparently held by a Russian official, about his father’s presidential opponent Hillary Clinton. The email exchange has been described by one senior Democratic senator as showing the Trump campaign “sought to collude…

Gushing with praise for the Poles, delivering his strongest commitment yet to NATO, and even managing a chiding for Russia – Donald Trump has left his hosts in Poland very happy. But now he’s landed in Germany for the G20 and faces a very different reception from world leaders, and protesters.

Millions of Americans seem destined to lose their access to health care, under a new bill due to be voted on by the Senate next week. President Trump is, as he promised, undoing Obamacare, the health system put in place by his predecessor. Democrats say poorer Americans will pay the price with their lives, but…

President Trump has condemned North Korea for its “brutality” following the death of a young American student after being held in custody for 15 months. Otto Warmbier was already in a coma when he was returned to his parents in Cincinnati last week. His parents said he had been subjected to “awful torturous mistreatment”.

In Syria, tensions have once again escalated after American forces brought down a Syrian government jet near the contested city of Raqqa. Moscow, which backs the Assad regime, has retaliated by suspending an agreement with Washington, aimed at avoiding clashes and says it will in future regard US planes as potential targets.

Donald Trump appears to have acknowleged publicly he is under investigation for sacking FBI Director James Comey. But he appeared to attack the Deputy Attorney General who ordered the probe. As rumours erupt in Washington over who he might sack next, the President flew out of town. He’s been in Miami, watering down another Obama-era…

Over in Washington, President Trump has lashed out at reports that the Special Counsel investigating Russian influence in the US election, is now looking into whether the President himself has “obstructed justice.” Our Washington Correspondent, Kylie Morris, joins us live from outside the FBI headquarters.

In the United States, a gunman has been shot dead by police after opening fire at the baseball practice session of Republican congressmen and staffers. Some dived for cover under cars and in the dugout.  One of those wounded was the whip in the House of Representatives.

In the last few minutes, the US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has begun testifying in the Senate about his dealings with Russian officials and whether he had a role in the sacking of former FBI chief James Comey. Senators will want to know why Mr Sessions said he’d had no contact with the Russians last…

Reports Donald Trump has put his planned state visit to Britain on hold for fear of widespread protests have been denied by the White House and the British Government. The US President has his hands full at home: in the last hour, another appeals court ruling means his travel ban remains blocked across the country.…

Politics reporter Bre Payton said James Comey’s evidence was more of an indictment of himself than President  Trump. Democrat Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett disagrees.

Former CIA analyst Edward Price says the FBI will investigate allegations that the Trump administration tried to obstruct the Trump/Russia probe.

Moments of high drama here today as the former FBI director James Comey accused the Trump administration of lying

The former FBI Director James Comey has given written testimony to a Senate committee before he appears in person tomorrow.

In the United States, President Trump has taken credit for the dramatic diplomatic isolation of Qatar by Gulf nations, saying “perhaps this will be the beginning of the end of terrorism”. His trip to the Middle East last month, he says, seems to be “paying off”.