Siobhan Kennedy , Washington Correspondent

The European Union today said it would take legal action against the UK in retaliation for Boris Johnson’s plan to unilaterally scrap parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol.  

Donald Trump’s former attorney general has told the investigation into the January 6th storming of the Capitol about his concerns that Mr Trump had become “detached from reality”. 

Harrowing unseen footage of the Capitol riot has been released as the January 6 committee hearings begin.

The House of Representatives has backed a series of bills around stricter gun controls – while a committee will also begin its public hearings today to investigate what really went on during the storming of the US Capitol on January 6th last year.

An 11-year-old girl who survived the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas by covering herself with blood and pretending to be dead, has described her traumatic experience to members of Congress in a pre-recorded video – telling them “I don’t want it to happen again”.

Amber Heard is expected to appeal against the $8.5 million damages bill she was ordered to pay – after losing the defamation case against her former husband Johnny Depp.

You cannot outlaw tragedy – but we can make America safer. That’s what President Biden declared today – promising to take the necessary action to protect lives in the wake of Tuesday’s school shooting in Texas.

Police chiefs in Uvalde, Texas, have admitted that the delay in confronting the gunman who shot 19 children and two teachers at a primary school was the “wrong decision” – and revealed that at least two children inside the school called 911 as the attack was taking place.

Police in Uvalde, Texas, have been criticised for the time it took to stop 18-year-old gunman Salvador Ramos in the shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers. He was reportedly in the school between 40 minutes and an hour before he was killed.

On a quiet Tuesday in a small rural town an 18-year-old armed with an automatic rifle burst into a primary school in Texas and barricaded himself in a classroom full of nine and ten-year-olds. 

Joe Biden has been criticised for failing to act sooner to address a critical shortage of baby formula that’s left supermarket shelves empty and parents scrambling for products.

President Biden has been meeting the prime minister of Sweden and president of Finland at the White House.

President Biden has visited the scene of this weekend’s racially motivated mass shooting in Buffalo, New York – declaring that “in America, evil will not win – white supremacy will not have the last word”.   

Residents living near the scene of this weekend’s racist massacre in Buffalo, New York, have gathered for a vigil to remember the10 people who died.

In the US, Democrats in the Senate have failed to get a bill passed that would enshrine women’s right to abortion in federal law. They were trying to combat the anticipated overturning by the Supreme Court of the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling that protected abortion rights for half a century. Meanwhile Republican-run states in…