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Lawyers for Donald Trump moved on Thursday to try to shut down an explosive new book which has exposed chaos behind the scenes at the White House. In response, the book’s US publisher brought publication forward to Friday....

WASHINGTON — President Trump essentially excommunicated his onetime chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, from his political circle on Wednesday, excoriating him as a self-promoting exaggerator who had “very little to do with our historic victory” and...

The anti-government protests in Iran and Tehran’s reactions are being watched with great concern in the West. But what do major regional players make of the events there? The protests over the country’s struggling economy, corruption, increasing...

Asking if the nuclear button at President Trump’s disposal is an actual button, as the president claimed on Twitter Tuesday, or merely a figurative term to describe the means by which a nuclear missile can be...

Statistical brilliance and context It’s an old Fleet Street adage that any headline ending with a question mark is best answered with a ‘no’. It’s called Betteridge’s Law, after the journalist who made it famous, though it’s...

Donald Trump has dramatically escalated his conflict with the Palestinian leadership, threatening to cut funding for the Palestinian Authority unless it recommences peace talks. The US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, earlier said the US...

Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon has described the Trump Tower meeting between the president’s son and a group of Russians during the 2016 election campaign as “treasonous” and “unpatriotic”, according to an explosive new book seen...

At least 12 people, including a child, were killed in a fire Thursday night at a five-story apartment building in the Bronx, one of New York City’s boroughs, officials said. The cause of the blaze is...

Bitter cold weather has hit the northern United States and is expected to stay into the New Year. Two Minnesota cities have set record low temperatures and the city of Erie in Pennsylvania has seen a...

A senior Church of England bishop has lambasted conservative evangelical Christians in the US for their “uncritical support” of Donald Trump, urging them to reflect on how their endorsement of the president relates to their faith. Paul...