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The first steps in Mr Trump’s impeachment trial have begun.

We spoke to James Comey, the former FBI director who was fired by President Trump in 2017

Donald Trump has become something he never wanted to be: a loser. He joins a list of US presidents who asked the American people for another chance, another term – and failed.

While there’ll be many people breathing a sigh of relief that Donald Trump has left the White House – millions of his supporters still don’t accept the fact of his defeat, and Americans are now divided not so much by their support for different politicians but more by their belief in polar opposite versions of the truth. 

It’s not so much the first 100 days, but the first 100 hours. Joe Biden had barely moved into the White House and the evening’s firework celebrations had yet to begin when he signed America back up to the Paris Accord, amid a flurry of executive orders. Four years of Trump exceptionalism on foreign policy…

As America embarks on the new Biden era, it is a country which has been torn in two. Shattered not just by the deadly pandemic, but also at war with itself. The legacy of Trumpism has been to widen that chasm between his most fervent supporters and those who utterly despise him. So for all…

The biggest challenge for President Biden is how to bring two very separate tribes back together, and try and re-establish some sense of a common truth, if not a common politics. But is the cult of Donald Trump unbreakable, or can such a determined mindset be changed? We’re joined by the psychologist Mary Trump, who…

Battered by the pandemic, by insurrectionists rampaging through the Capitol, by unrest over racial injustice, by the constant babble of fake news – has America become irrevocably divided, or will Joe Biden’s appeal for unity stand any chance of success? We’ve been out in Virginia to speak to a range of Republican voters, and ask…

Think back to four years ago and the angry debate about the size of the crowd. Today there is no debate – and no crowd either. Amid the pandemic and the siege at the US Capitol just two weeks ago, Americans have been firmly told to stay at home. 

Julian Castro served with Joe Biden in President Obama’s cabinet. He was a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

There was a red carpet, a 21-gun salute and, somewhat bizarrely, a rendition of Sinatra’s My Way, as Donald Trump boarded Air Force One for his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, clutching his wife Melania’s hand as if his life depended on it. Gone, but perhaps not departed – as Mr Trump told his supporters: “We’ll…

A new day, a new era. President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris have been sworn into office, pledging to write a new chapter in America’s story and declaring “at this hour, democracy has prevailed”.

They believe Donald Trump is the saviour of the American way of life and only he alone can take on the Democrats and the political and corporate establishment.

Donald Trump has less than 24 hours left as president, and the reckoning has already begun – including from some whose support he was able to count on. 

We spoke to the Democratic Congressman Brendan Boyle.