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We spoke to Linda Kenney Baden, a former prosecutor and a presenter on the Law and Crime Network, who was famously played on screen by Helen Mirren for her work prosecuting Phil Spector.

Video cameras might not have been allowed inside the courtroom – but America’s television networks have devoted hours of special coverage to this historic moment, unfolding live to millions of viewers around the world.

New York has always had an on-off relationship with Mr Trump: the city that hates to sleep and now loves to hate him.

We spoke to Dr Eddie Glaude who’s professor of African American studies at Princeton and began by asking him if there was anything at all positive that we could draw from what is happening here in New York today.

America often looks like a country riven by political tribalism, with opinions pushed ever further to extremes. But there is still room for a more moderate view, even in solid red states like Tennessee.

We spoke to Linda Kenney Baden, a former prosecutor and a presenter on the Law and Crime Network, who was famously played on screen by Helen Mirren for her work prosecuting Phil Spector.

We spoke to Anthony Scaramucci, who was briefly director of communications at the Trump White House and asked him first – what he thought was going through Trump’s mind on this historic day.

Today’s legal shenanigans are just the beginning for Mr Trump.

Never before has an American president, serving or former, faced criminal charges.

When fire broke out in a migrant detention centre in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez on Monday, immigration officials quickly ran out of the building, along with 15 female detainees.

British MPs have been told to delete TikTok on their work phones, just days after the government issued the same instruction to ministers over security concerns.

The hours between markets closing on Friday and Monday are the opportunity for major financial moves that would otherwise cause market chaos.

Jill Wine-Banks, was one of the prosecutors during the Watergate scandal.

Donald Trump has said that he expects to be arrested on Tuesday as prosecutors consider charges over hush money payments to a porn actor. The Manhattan district attorney’s office, which has been investigating a one-hundred-and-thirty-thousand dollar payment to Stormy Daniels, declined to comment.

When a US surveillance drone ditched in the Black Sea two days ago, Moscow rejected the Americans’ claims that the actions of a Russian fighter jet had forced it down.