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The US Department of Justice has said it had evidence that Donald Trump had hidden highly classified documents at his Florida home – and then lied about giving them back. 

We spoke to Astrophysicist Dr Michelle Thaller from Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

The words of a Nasa official after the abortive attempt of its next generation moon rocket, Artemis, that was due to lift off this morning on its pioneering mission to the moon – 50 years after the first Apollo landing.

In the last few hours, the US Department of Justice has released a redacted version of the affidavit which the FBI used to justify their search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. The document says the agents were worried that highly sensitive government documents Mr Trump had taken from the White House could compromise…

In the US, a special election in a swing district in New York has challenged the predictions for November’s midterm elections. 

Just what was in Donald Trump’s personal safe?

There are few pieces of paper more coveted by the US press than the highly sensitive affidavit used to justify an FBI search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s Florida mansion.

In the US state of Virginia the British Islamic State jihadist El Shafee Elsheikh has been sentenced to life in prison after he was found guilty earlier in the year for kidnapping and conspiracy to commit murder.

The hearings into the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th 2021 are yet to finish and the revelations have been stunning.

In today’s episode of the Fourcast, our International editor Lindsey Hilsum puts the current flare up between China and Taiwan into context as geopolitics comes to terms with a future where Beijing is King.

Three-term Republican Congresswoman and leading Trump critic Liz Cheney has blamed what she called a “cult of personality” surrounding the former president, after she was defeated in a primary election. 

Team Trump warned – take on The Donald and pay the price.

There’s a fierce battle going on to decide which Wyoming Republican will run in November’s general election. 

We spoke to Renato Mariotti, a lawyer, commentator and former Federal Prosecutor.

A man has been charged with attempted murder in the second degree – in connection with the attack on the author Salman Rushdie.