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Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump during their historic US-North Korea summit in Singapore in June 2018. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
Like a ‘fantasy film’: Kim Jong-un describes Trump bond in letters
  • US
  • August 13, 2020, 10:22

Bob Woodward’s second book on the Trump White House has a title, Rage, and promises to reveal the secrets of “25 personal letters exchanged between [D(...)

Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York, arrives with his associate Lev Parnas before a state funeral service for former US president George HW Bush at the National Cathedral in Washington in December 2018. Photograph: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images
How ‘Lev and Igor’ fuelled the Trump impeachment flames
  • US
  • December 22, 2019, 16:00

On a warm summer evening last year, Lev Parnas stepped aboard a private cruise around New York Harbour for a gathering of some of Rudy Giuliani’s clos(...)

Séamus Lawless is said to have slipped while in the “Balcony area” near the summit of Everest after reaching it last week.
Shay Lawless recovery team ‘determined not to further endanger lives’

A team of professional and experienced climbers are set to begin a search for an Irish man missing since he slipped and fell on the descent of Mount E(...)

White House counsel Don McGahn listens to US president Donald Trump speak to the media. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA
White House counsel co-operates with Russia investigation
  • US
  • August 19, 2018, 18:37

The White House’s top lawyer has co-operated extensively with the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 US election, sharing (...)

US navy rear admiral Ronny Jackson, Donald Trump’s nominee to be secretary of veteran affairs: will not return to job as his personal physician. Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA
Trump circle continues to mutate as loyal members fall out of favour

To lose one doctor may be regarded as a misfortune, but to lose both... This week Donald Trump’s personnel problems took a surreal turn. Amid the myr(...)

Special Counsel Robert Mueller. File photograph: Yuri Gripas/Reuters
Mueller raised possibility of Trump subpoena – president’s ex-lawyer
  • US
  • May 2, 2018, 07:43

Special Counsel Robert Mueller, in a meeting with US President Donald Trump’s lawyers in March, raised the possibility of issuing a subpoena for Mr Tr(...)

Kim Jong-un in Beijing: the North Korean leader with Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, at a banquet at the Great Hall of the People. Photograph: KCNA via AP
Trump talks up North Korea meeting as emoluments cases get go-ahead

Donald Trump has said he looks forward to meeting Kim Jong-un, following confirmation that the North Korean leader met his Chinese counterpart in Beij(...)

Donald Trump: the US president boards Air Force One for Mar-a-Lago on Friday. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP
Trump drops lawyers, denies problems finding representation
  • US
  • March 25, 2018, 21:54

Donald Trump has decided not to hire two lawyers who were announced last week as new additions to his legal team, leaving him with a shrinking stable (...)

US president Donald Trump holds up a signed presidential memorandum targeting China’s economic aggression in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington, DC. Photograph: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
Donald Trump targets China in new tariff move

Fears of a global trade war have intensified as US president Donald Trump announced new tariffs on Chinese imports on Thursday, doubling-down on the p(...)

Special counsel Robert Mueller reportedly ordered Deutsche Bank to hand over account information related to US president Donald Trump. Photograph: Shawn Thew/EPA
White House denies Mueller got subpoena for Trump accounts

Special counsel Robert Mueller has secured account information relating to Donald Trump from his long-time lender Deutsche Bank, several media outlets(...)

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