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Ann Coulter is a conservative commentator who may well be the reason Trump tweeted. She is one of only 45 people he follows on Twitter and she tweeted one of those Britain First videos just before he did. Labour MP Rupa Huq is former Shadow Minister for Crime and Prevention.

Brendan Cox, the husband of murdered Labour MP Jo Cox, has accused Donald Trump of spreading hate. His wife was murdered by a far-right extremist who reportedly shouted “Britain First” while attacking her. The group Britain First have always denied involvement in the murder.

Downing Street has condemned a series of tweets by President Trump, re-posting anti-Muslim videos which had been put online by a leader of the far-right group Britain First. Mr Trump re-posted three videos from the account of the group’s deputy leader Jayda Fransen, who’s facing charges, including religiously aggravated harassment. It’s been met by outrage…

Today is Thanksgiving when America gathers around a large roasted bird to give thanks and make up. President Trump broadcast his own fireside message today, but the last year has been marred by toxic division – much of it stirred up by the President himself. One minority community that feels targeted by his legislative agenda…

The sinister American cult leader Charles Manson, who directed his acolytes to carry out a series of ritualistic murders in 1969, has died at the age of 83. He was once described as “the most dangerous man alive”, never showing any remorse for their  horrific crimes, including stabbing to death the heavily pregnant actress Sharon Tate, killed along with…

Do you remember what you were like when you were 14? Plenty of women in the United States do and have been posting images of themselves and reminiscences of what they were like at that age under the twitter hashtag Me At 14. It was started by TV comedy producer Lizz Winstead who wanted to…

He started work in New York’s legendary nightclub Studio 54 as a 15-year-old bus boy and was taken under the wing of Andy Warhol only two years later as a photographer. David LaChapelle made his name with erotically-charged and meticulously-created, high-gloss magazine covers. Now he has published two books looking back at his glamorous career…

Donald Trump has hailed his “great relationship” with the controversial Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte at the end of a two-day regional summit in Manila. The two leaders did talk about the country’s brutal war on drugs, which has left thousands of people dead. But, the White House admitted, there was only a brief reference to…

Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un have been trading insults again, as the president arrives on the last leg of his Asia tour.

Roy Moore, the controversial Republican candidate for a vacant Alabama Senate seat, has been accused of  historical sexual abuse of a teenage girl. The allegation comes just four weeks before the vote. Mr Moore, who was backed by President Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon for he candidacy, has denied the allegation. His campaign has gone into full attack…

Terry McAuliffe the Democratic Governor of Virginia talks about this week’s election results, were they victories for the democrats or against Donald Trump?

A year ago today, the world changed.  It’s not often you can say that with as much confidence as when you’re referring to the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States.  He’s had few legislative victories, but he’s used his levers of power to roll back many of his predecessor’s policies, and…

“I’m the only one that matters.” When asked about the long list of unfilled positions at his State Department, that was Donald Trump’s blunt reply. But the combination of leaving so many high-level positions empty, and tweeting his foreign policy whims, not to mention insults against his own Secretary of State, have many concerned about…

Tomorrow marks exactly a year since Donald Trump was elected. To mark that occasion, journalist Gary Younge has been travelling through the US from the whitest state in the Union, Maine, to the blackest, Mississippi, to find out why so many white Americans are feeling left behind and voted for Trump. In his new documentary,…

He had his favourite mode of communication briefly silenced last night when a rogue Twitter employee deleted the President’s account – but Donald Trump was well and truly back online this morning firing off a barrage of tweets attacking the Democrats. For the next two weeks he’ll be tweeting while travelling on a tour of Asia…