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Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell blocked an attempt by Democrats to force quick action on increasing direct stimulus payments to $2,000 despite President Donald Trump’s demands for the change. Photographer: Ting Shen/Bloomberg
Trump turns up heat on US Senate to approve bigger stimulus
  • US
  • December 29, 2020

Donald Trump challenged Senate Republicans to approve an increase in stimulus cheques to $2,000 per person, defying his own party leaders in Congress (...)

US president Donald Trump: issued an executive order authorising sanctions against current and former officials of the Turkish government. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty
Trump imposes sanctions on Turkish officials over Syria incursion
  • US
  • October 15, 2019, 00:18

Donald Trump on Monday demanded Turkey stop its military incursion in Syria and imposed new sanctions on the Nato ally as the US president scrambled (...)

A filing cabinet broken into in 1972 as part of the Watergate burglary, beside a computer server that Russian hackers breached during the 2016 presidential campaign, both now in the basement of the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters in Washington. Photograph: Justin T Gellerson/The New York Times
How Russian hackers hijacked the US election
  • US
  • December 14, 2016, 12:30

When special agent Adrian Hawkins of the FBI called the Democratic National Committee in September 2015 to pass along some troubling news about its c(...)

US president-elect Donald Trump speaking during the USA Thank You Tour in Grand Rapids, Michigan. File photograph: Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images
Trump dismisses Russian hacking reports as ‘ridiculous’

US president-elect Donald Trump has criticised the intelligence agencies he will soon lead, saying that it is “ridiculous” for them to suggest that Ru(...)

An Islamic State militant uses announces to residents of Taqba city that Tabqa air base has fallen to his group. Photograph: Reuters
Obama urged to order air strikes against Isis forces in Syria

Senior Republicans yesterday called for expanded air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq and for the first time in Syria, to destroy th(...)