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Donald Trump was described as the “inciter-in-chief” who “had left everyone in this Capitol for dead” as the impeachment trial against him began in earnest. During eight hours of testimony, Democrat politicians, acting as “impeachment managers”, berated Mr Trump for having whipped up an atmosphere of such febrile aggression that a demonstration of support for

Huawei has filed a legal challenge against the US Federal Communications Commission which designated the company as a threat to US national security. The telecommunications company was one of two Chinese businesses, alongside ZTE, that received the formal designation last June, which prohibited American companies from spending federal subsidies on their equipment. In a petition

Former president Donald Trump will face a second impeachment trial after the US Senate ruled it was constitutional. Senators were being asked to vote if Mr Trump can be tried even though he is no longer in office. It was approved 56 to 44, with six Republican senators voting with Democrats. Advertisement

The United States is, once again, about to expose and interrogate the disunity that now runs through this country. The process of putting Donald Trump on trial is about to get real. First will come a debate about whether the constitution allows for such a process, bearing in mind that Mr Trump is no longer

The second impeachment case against Donald Trump is a piece of “political theatre”, the former president’s lawyers have said. Mr Trump’s legal team have accused his Democrat opponents of exploiting the chaos and trauma of last month’s riot at the US Capitol for their own party’s gain. A day before proceedings begin in the Senate,

American politics often baffles outsiders but on the eve of Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, it really has never been weirder. Politicians promoting a delusional conspiracy claiming America is in the grips of a child-trafficking liberal cabal backed by the deep state are now sitting in the US Congress. And Mr Trump‘s grand fiction that

A man appears to have been shot and killed by mistake as he was making a “prank” robbery video for YouTube. Police in Nashville, Tennessee, said they were called to the car park of Urban Air Trampoline and Adventure Park on Friday evening. When they arrived, David Starnes Jr, 23, admitted shooting 20-year-old Timothy Wilks,

Donald Trump has made a return to social media to say allegations against him cannot be proven. The former president used his account on Gab, an alternative platform to Twitter often used by his right-wing followers, to release a letter from his lawyers. After being banned from Twitter and Facebook, he has been relatively quiet

Controversial congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has refused to apologise to the school shooting survivor she called “an idiot, trained by a dog”. The far-right Georgia congresswoman who amplified QAnon conspiracy theories which focus on the debunked belief that top Democrats were involved in child sex trafficking, was captured on film running after David Hogg, one

US jobs growth bounced back less than expected in January while losses the previous month were worse than initially thought, latest figures show. The first set of employment data under President Joe Biden underlines the scale of the economic challenge faced as he seek to push through a $1.9trn (£1.4trn) COVID-19 recovery package. Please use

The US is withdrawing operational support from Saudi Arabia’s forces in Yemen, which President Joe Biden hopes will help bring an end to one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. Mr Biden pledged during his presidential election campaign that his administration would resolve the long-running conflict between the Saudi-backed government and Iranian-aligned Houthi movement diplomatically.

A US politician and QAnon supporter has survived a vote to demote her in Congress. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has in the past cast doubt on the 9/11 terror attacks and the 2018 Parkland school mass shooting, was backed in a secret ballot vote of Republicans in the House of Representatives. The vote on Ms

America’s top infectious diseases expert says double masking is a “common sense approach” to preventing the spread of coronavirus. Dr Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, recommended using two masks at a COVID-19 response news conference on Wednesday, saying there was “no harm” if people wanted to for added protection. He said

The remains of a police officer killed when supporters of Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol last month have been taken to the building’s historic rotunda to lie in honour. Brian Sicknick was on duty when rioters, angry over US president Donald Trump’s election loss, stormed the building on 6 January, and was hit in

Donald Trump’s legal team have dismissed his impeachment over the Capitol riots last month, after Democrats said the former president aimed the crowds “like a cannon” during his speech before the violence. Mr Trump‘s legal team said the Senate has no authority to try the ex-reality star as a private citizen, and that the chamber

A number of police officers have been suspended after body-camera footage showed a chemical “irritant” being sprayed in the face of a distraught and handcuffed nine-year-old girl. Officials in Rochester, New York, would not confirm how many officers had been sanctioned, but said the suspensions would last at least until an internal investigation is completed.