Kylie Morris , Washington Correspondent

Evan McMullin ran for the Presidency as an independent and now promotes transparency in politics and the digital world.  

Kylie Morris speaks to the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Congressman Adam Schiff, one of the leading figures investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. I began by asking him about those comments from Alexander Nix that sounded so dismissive of their efforts to discover what Cambridge Analytica had been doing and how his…

The impact of the data scandal is being felt across the world. Facebook shares plunged today, and in the US the senior Democrat on the House intelligence committee has invited whistleblower Chris Wylie, who spoke to this programme on Saturday, to give testimony.

As we’ve heard the US described the UK nerve agent attack as “a breach of international law”. But Washington has also now separately imposed sanctions against 19 Russians – accusing them of interfering in the 2016 US election and cyber attacks. It’s the strongest action yet taken against Moscow by the Trump administration.

It’s no secret President Trump and Rex Tillerson’s relationship was on the rocks. But why the messy break-up now? Could it be over the sudden announcement that the President would meet Kim Jong-un, or is Mr Trump annoyed the former secretary of state condemned Russia after the Salisbury nerve agent attack? Whatever caused the split,…

After months of trading insults as they bragged about the size of their military arsenals, US President Donald Trump is set to meet Kim Jong-un of North Korea within weeks. It will be the first time that leaders of the two countries have met – so what will happen when the Rocket Man meets The Donald?

As Donald Trump moves closer to kicking off an international trade war, many Republicans are worried that his steel tariff will hurt the US economy just in time for the mid-term elections. Democrats are fighting to take control of the House of Representatives in November, but to win the Presidential election in 2020, they need…

The White House has now lost one of its leading free trade advocates, after the departure of chief economic adviser Gary Cohn – the latest member of Trump’s inner circle to walk out.

Donald Trump says he is “not backing down” over steel tariffs, even as his own party urges him to reconsider, saying there is “extreme worry” over the consequences of a damaging trade war. And that’s exactly where the World Trade Organisation warns his protectionist plan could lead.

A day after spending nine hours in front of a US Congressional committee investigating Russian interference in the presidential election, one of President Trump’s closest aides resigned. During her testimony White House communications director Hope Hicks admitted she had occasionally told “white lies” for the President.

In the next hour, President Trump, who favours arming teachers, will meet members of Congress to discuss the raft of laws proposed in response to the Parkland school shooting. As Marjory Stoneman Douglas High resumes its classes, the student activists demanding more gun control are adamant: they will not be ignored.

Six students, and one of their teachers, discuss the Florida tragedy and the movement for change to the nation’s gun laws that has grown from their grief and their anger. Delaney Tarr says she has been trolled on social media and called deranged. Melissa Falkowski says critics of what they have been saying since the…

Six students, and one of their teachers, discuss the Florida tragedy and the movement for change to the nation’s gun laws that has grown from their grief and their anger. Delaney Tarr says they wouldn’t have been any safer if a teacher had had a gun. Melanie Weber says she knew was an armed guard…

A look back at the last week, following the shootings of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High school in Florida.

First there was Columbine, then Sandy Hook, now this pretty town in Florida is the latest to add its name to America’s roll call of mass school shootings. This is Parkland, where a week ago a young man armed with an assault rifle massacred 17 people, 14 of them students at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas…