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Teacher Melissa Falkowski discusses the Florida killings.

Even the usually pro-gun New York Post tabloid newspaper pleaded with President Trump today to do something to stop the slaughter. But will he when he gets to Florida later today? Could this massacre of mainly 14 year old school kids be a tipping point in the debate on gun control? Even Florida’s Republican Governor…

Security guards had to hold back a father in a US court today after he tried to attack the man who sexually abused his three daughters. Randall Margrave had just heard two of his daughters give accounts of their abuse at the hands of Larry Nassar, a former doctor for the US national gymnastics squad.

Andrew Sullivan, writer-at-large for New York magazine, and Dee Dee Bass Wilbon, a conservative commentator and public affairs specialist, discuss President Trump’s state of the union speech.

President Donald Trump says he used his first state of the union address to Congress to reach out an open hand across the aisle for unity, but Democrats say his other hand was a clenched fist. His proposed immigration deal, with its offer to help some illegal immigrants in exchange for a border crackdown, has…

So did Donald Trump try to fire the special prosecutor Robert Mueller? And what does that mean for the independence of the judicial process?  Lisa Gilbert, vice president of legislative affairs at the government watchdog, Public Citizen, responds.    

Ian Bremmer, a foreign policy expert and president of the Eurasia Group, discusses President Trump’s Davos speech.      

An apology, of sorts, from Donald Trump, and that doesn’t happen often. In a television interview with Piers Morgan, the President said he would apologise for retweeting a series of videos by a British far-right group, insisting he “knew nothing” about them. Mr Trump was speaking from the Swiss resort of Davos, where he’s been…

The last accounts from US gymnasts who were abused by their team doctor have been given to a court in Michigan. Dr Larry Nassar is due to be sentenced shortly, accused of abusing more than 140 women, many of them very well known figures in the world of gymnastics. He has already been sentenced to…

Former economic adviser to Donald Trump, Betsy McCaughey, discusses the President’s position on abortion and other aspects of his first year in power.

In the United States, the government is lurching towards a financial shutdown unless a last-minute deal can be reached. The chaos on Capitol Hill is perhaps a fitting metaphor for Donald Trump’s first year in office – a  year which has seen controversy after controversy, some broken promises but other ones delivered. His approval rating…

“The Wall is The Wall” and Mexico will pay for it. Remember the line? Donald Trump repeated it this morning, pushing back against his chief of staff John Kelly, who’d suggested the President’s position has ‘evolved’. Mixed messages aside, that wall, cuts to legal immigration and ‘extreme vetting’ of those arriving, are changing lives across…

Donald Trump has denied using a racial slur to describe African countries. Some politicians who were in the room at the time insist he did. But the international furore over what he did or didn’t say seems about par for the course for the 45th president of the United States, at least if you believe the…

Donald Trump’s tweets helped his book soar to the top of the best selling lists… we talk to the ‘Fire and Fury’ author Michael Wolff about the book that’s blown open the President’s first year in office and become a political event in itself.

African leaders have demanded that Donald Trump apologise over his alleged use of a vulgar term to describe their nations. The Ghanaian president called the words he is said to have used “extremely unfortunate” and 54 African ambassadors to the United Nations condemned what they said were his “outrageous, racist and xenophobic remarks”. The US…