Kylie Morris , Washington Correspondent

There were protests on the border with Colombia, with hundreds of people gathering in the town of Urena, just across from Cucuta where the consignment of aid has been stranded for five days.

The border between Venezuela and Colombia is the centre of a political and humanitarian stand-off as US aid is blocked by the socialist government of Venezuela.

As aid piles up, people pour out. US humanitarian aid packages are arrving in Cucuta, Colombia, where the Venezuelan opposition have vowed to deliver it across the border.

Trump’s calls for co-operation on the border wall may have fallen flat, but the President took a softer tone, rather than his trademark fury at the State of the Union address.

First it was on, then it was off, and now it’s back on again. President Trump’s State of the Union Address to Congress will finally get under way in a few hours.

The FBI came for him before dawn, dressed in combat gear, using night-vision equipment and shouting “Open the door”, before arresting former Trump campaign aide Roger Stone as part of the investigation into alleged Russian collusion. Nothing to do with us, the White House insisted, while Stone declared he would plead not guilty and fight charges…

President Trump has declared that America officially recognises the Venezuelan opposition leader as the country’s interim president. And he’s urged other western nations to follow suit.

The United States House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees are to investigate whether President Trump told his former lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress under oath. It comes after Buzzfeed News reported claims that the President instructed Mr Cohen to lie about a plan to build a Trump Tower in Russia. The President’s current lawyer, Rudy Giuliani,…

The US federal government has been shut down now for 27 days… that’s 800,000 staff who haven’t been paid – while projections of the lost economic growth have doubled. A new poll suggests President Trump’s approval rating is falling, even among his closest supporters – although he’s still blaming his Democratic rivals for the impasse…

Tomorrow, the US government shutdown will become the longest in history, as President Trump refuses to back down to Congress over funding for his border wall. His address to the nation failed to convince many that there is a ‘growing crisis’. Now he’s arrived on the border to carry on his campaign.

President Trump has ramped up his standoff with Congress over his demand for a Mexican border wall, using a bill designed to tackle human trafficking to push his case.

In the United States, leading Democrats have emerged from a meeting with President Trump aimed at ending the partial government shutdown, saying he’d threatened to keep it going for “months or even years.” It comes after one newly-elected Democrat used a profanity while calling for the President to be impeached. Whatever happened to the season…

More women, Muslims, Latinos and African-Americans: the 116th US congress being sworn in right now is more diverse than ever before.

President Trump has threatened a US government shutdown, warning it would “last a very long time”, as he poured scorn on the Democrats for failing to support funding for a wall along the Mexican border, which he described as “like the wheel, there is nothing better”. But more significant is the loss of his defence secretary General…

Reports that President Trump is planning to abruptly pull all US troops out of Syria because, he says, ISIS has been defeated, have been met with surprise, both in Washington and across the world.