New York prosecutors portrayed US$130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels as a criminal effort to deceive voters when Trump was facing other accusations of crude sexual behaviour.

He was found to be romantically involved with district lawyer Fani Willis, and later had to step aside for the prosecution of Trump to continue

Meetings with Foreign Minister Wang Yi expected to cover unfair trade practices and industrial overcapacity in ‘productive and constructive’ trip.

The initiative, launched under then-president Donald Trump, was intended to fight espionage by Beijing, but was slammed as racist and trigger-happy.

Maxwell Azzarello was seen throwing pamphlets opposite the courthouse before dousing himself in an unspecified liquid.

Donald Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records as part of a scheme to conceal a US$130,000 pay-off made to porn star Stormy Daniels.

The US’ proposed tripling of tariffs on Chinese steel imports would be the first move in a tit-for-tat struggle that would expand the bilateral trade war, analysts said – and fuel grumblings over industrial overcapacity.

Many in Robert F Kennedy Jnr’s elite family – prominent Democrats since the 19th century – have broken with him over his views.

The last time Republicans unseated their own House speaker, it took three weeks and several implosions before they finally settled on the relatively unknown Mike Johnson as a replacement. If he now goes down, who’d pick up the pieces this time?

The former US president hosted Poland’s Andrzej Duda for dinner at Trump Tower in Manhattan.

The ex-US president, who had earlier complained the trial would take him off the campaign trail for too long, now says it is being rushed.

The former press sec is ex-Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee’s daughter, battled cancer and comments about her body, and has had a rocky relationship with media

The Democrat-led chamber tossed 2 articles of impeachment against Biden’s border chief, putting an end to the Republican effort.

Washington should offer ‘alternatives to what our competitors are offering’, says Foreign Relations committee chair, referring to Beijing’s advances.

‘I’m not looking for a fight with China but competition, fair competition,’ the president tells cheering steelworkers in Pennsylvania.

Speaker Mike Johnson is seeking final passage on Saturday for the package, which includes US$61 billion in funding for Kyiv long-delayed by Trump loyalists.

No stranger to controversy on social media, Australia-born Adams is known as ‘Alpha Male’ and regularly speaks about politics and his support for Trump, what it means to be American and his love of meat

She’s made controversial remarks about everything from Sandy Hook and 9/11, to QAnon and the 2021 Capitol riots, and even CrossFit has had to distance itself from her

Lawyers on both sides sifted through scores of potential panellists in a search for New Yorkers who can be unbiased – and physically able to attend Donald Trump’s historic trial.

The ex-US president was cautioned at one point, when his muttering was audible to one juror who was being questioned over social media posts.

Biden administration ‘taking a serious look’ at existing tools to deal effectively with Beijing’s policies causing ‘dependencies and vulnerabilities’.

Republican congressman Thomas Massie says he supports hardline colleague Marjorie Taylor Greene’s move to remove Johnson from the leadership role.

Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled an elaborate plan to break a US aid package into separate votes to squeeze through the House’s political divides on foreign policy. The move could end a months-long Republican blockade on help for Ukraine.

‘Devil’s advocate’ Dershowitz worked on Trump’s acquittal in his first impeachment trial, and defended Mike Tyson after his conviction for rape – but he regrets taking Jeffrey Epstein on as a client

Donald Trump is being investigated over his role in hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016. Jury selection expected to resume on Tuesday.