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A professor who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of historic sexual assault has said she will testify at a Senate hearing next week.

Erica York, from the Tax Foundation think tank, and Republican strategic adviser, John Burnett, discuss the trade dispute between the US and China.

From aircraft to coffee and smoked beef, China has slapped retaliatory tariffs on $60 billion worth of American products, in yet another escalation of the trade war.

Politicians in the United States are calling for a key vote on President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee to be delayed, after an allegation of sexual assault emerged.

President Trump has declared a disaster in North Carolina, where at least five people have died in a tropical storm.

Kiran Moodley looks back at the Democratic convention in Chicago in 1968 when the party nearly split in two on the issue.

Laura Dawson, director of the Canada Institute at Washington’s Wilson Centre, discusses the US/Mexico trade agreement.

While Theresa May seeks new trade deals in Africa, Donald Trump has been showing how to seal a deal in the US with a proposed new agreement with Mexico, a country with which he’s had a very vexed relationship.

‘I don’t know how you can impeach somebody who’s done a great job’, Donald Trump has insisted – telling Fox News that if he was impeached the markets would crash and “everybody would be very poor”. And in another tirade against his former laywer Michael Cohen – who claimed the President directed him to make…

So the man who was Donald Trump’s trusted confidante for over a decade now faces up to 5 years in jail… for Michael Cohen, trashed in public by his former boss – it’s a bitter end to a once beautiful friendship. The son of immigrants – Mr Cohen’s path to the office of the most…

Lanny Davis is Michael Cohen’s lawyer.

Harvard Law School’s Emeritus Professor Alan Dershowitz discusses President Trump.

Ron Hosko is a former FBI assistant director who worked under Robert Mueller when he was in charge of the Bureau.

Corey Lewandowski was a campaign manager for Donald Trump’s 2016 election bid and says he “kept as far away from Michael Cohen as possible”.