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The US Supreme Court has partially reinstated President Trump’s controversial travel ban in a decision the White House is calling a victory for national security.

Millions of Americans seem destined to lose their access to health care, under a new bill due to be voted on by the Senate next week. President Trump is, as he promised, undoing Obamacare, the health system put in place by his predecessor. Democrats say poorer Americans will pay the price with their lives, but…

President Trump has condemned North Korea for its “brutality” following the death of a young American student after being held in custody for 15 months. Otto Warmbier was already in a coma when he was returned to his parents in Cincinnati last week. His parents said he had been subjected to “awful torturous mistreatment”.

In Syria, tensions have once again escalated after American forces brought down a Syrian government jet near the contested city of Raqqa. Moscow, which backs the Assad regime, has retaliated by suspending an agreement with Washington, aimed at avoiding clashes and says it will in future regard US planes as potential targets.

Over in Washington, President Trump has lashed out at reports that the Special Counsel investigating Russian influence in the US election, is now looking into whether the President himself has “obstructed justice.” Our Washington Correspondent, Kylie Morris, joins us live from outside the FBI headquarters.

Politics reporter Bre Payton said James Comey’s evidence was more of an indictment of himself than President  Trump. Democrat Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett disagrees.

Former CIA analyst Edward Price says the FBI will investigate allegations that the Trump administration tried to obstruct the Trump/Russia probe.

Allegations of links to Russia have dogged President Trump’s first few months in office – with the White House repeatedly denying any collusion with Moscow to influence last year’s presidential election.

Moments of high drama here today as the former FBI director James Comey accused the Trump administration of lying

The former FBI Director James Comey has given written testimony to a Senate committee before he appears in person tomorrow.

Michael Bloomberg is the former mayor of New York and the founder and CEO of Bloomberg LP, a financial services, media, and software company. He tells Matt Frei that London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who has been criticised by Donald Trump after the London Bridge attacks, is “doing exactly what he should do” and he would…

In the United States, President Trump has taken credit for the dramatic diplomatic isolation of Qatar by Gulf nations, saying “perhaps this will be the beginning of the end of terrorism”. His trip to the Middle East last month, he says, seems to be “paying off”.

Donald Trump is expected to announce that the USA will pull out of the Paris climate change agreement.

Will he – won’t he? President Trump seems to love drama – especially a drama with him in the lead role. This time its climate change.

Baroness Bryony Worthington, a former UK Government adviser on climate change, and Bjorn Lomborg, author of ‘The Skeptical Environmentalist’, debate President Trump’s expected decision to pull out of the Paris climate change agreement.