Despite his protestations, the US president will be pleased with last week’s Supreme Court ruling on his finances, which effectively delays the results of any investigations until well after the November elections
The law has finally caught up with disgraced socialite Ghislaine Maxwell. She and her late lover Jeffrey Epstein were the central players in a depraved world of wealth, luxury and privilege where naive young teenagers from poor backgrounds were treated as disposable sexual playthings
The former US national security adviser is eager to settle plenty of scores after leaving office, but his book is an incoherent mess
In the midst of a controversy about Russia allegedly bribing Taliban fighters to kill American soldiers, the US president was meeting the people behind a bizarre new play about two FBI agents having an affair
Donald Trump’s attempts to whip up some nationalist fervour ahead of the 4th of July weekend proved to be a damp squib
He may be rather dull and was very few people’s first choice for Democratic presidential candidate, but Joe Biden is outstripping Trump in the polls. His main task now is to find an effective running mate
The hanging deaths of two black men, within 50 miles and ten days of each other, struck terror in the black communities in California
In a tumultuous week, the former national security adviser’s controversial new book dished plenty of fresh dirt on the US president
Despite two recent books purporting to tell all on Melania Trump, there is ultimately little mystery to the ambitious blank canvas that is the US First Lady
The US president is set to take a hard-right turn before the November election, despite widespread calls for police reform and a clamour for societal change
Police brutality, endemic racism, mass unemployment and the coronavirus have created a perfect storm for a summer of huge social upheaval and unrest across the US
In Hollywood, the minority who are bent on smashing glass and grabbing merchandise are looking for a more glitzy haul than most
The US leader has harnessed the power of the social media platform like no other. And that’s exactly why Jack Dorsey’s move to slap a warning label on an incendiary tweet is mere tokenism, not all-out war
As the Memorial Day holiday weekend approaches, there is no sign that the US government has succeeded in reducing the toll the coronavirus is taking on lives and on the economy
The Trump administration’s latest initiative to quell the coronavirus in the US is doomed to failure, according to the medical and scientific communities
The US president’s lawyer has asked the Supreme Court for ‘temporary presidential immunity’, in a case which has huge potential for embarrassment
With no federal plan for a coordinated reopening of the US and no proper testing and contact tracing system in place, individual states are holding their breath and hoping for the best as they attempt to return to business as usual
As prisons turn into breeding grounds for Covid-19 and armed militia flex their muscles outside government buildings, the US is perched on a highly dangerous political knife-edge
The former vice-president is being dogged by an allegation of serious sexual assault from 1993 that refuses to go away
More than 50,000 Americans have now died from the coronavirus, but President Donald Trump is doubling down on his ignorance – with a side order of disinfectant