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In Washington, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has been urging Europe to follow America’s lead, imposing further sanctions on Russia. Mr Hunt accused Moscow of “malign behaviour” around the world, but Russia’s Foreign Minister claimed Britain was being arrogant by trying to tell Europe what to do when it’s on the verge of leaving the EU altogether.

The ‘fake news media’ is the opposition party, President Trump declared today, but across the United States some 350 newspapers from the New York Times to the Kentucky Times Tribune have launched an unprecedented joint campaign to counter the President’s attacks on the media. In the past two hours the US Senate unanimously supported a free press,…

The former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman has claimed the Trump administration is “one where everybody lies” – and released a secret tape she recorded of Chief of Staff John Kelly as he fired her from her job inside the Situation Room. Earlier, President Trump described Ms Newman as “lowlife” – after she described…

The US space agency NASA has launched a mission to investigate the mysteries of the Sun – flying closer than ever before. The Parker Solar Probe launched successfully early this morning, on a seven year voyage to make 24 orbits of the Sun. It’ll fly just over 6 million km from the surface – protected…

An airline employee stole a plane from Seattle- Tacoma airport in the United States and was chased by fighter jets before crashing into an island, killing himself in the process. Officials said the man, aged 29, had worked as a ground service agent for Alaska Air. Harry Smith reports.

The chemical giant Monsanto has been ordered to pay more than two hundred million pounds in damages – after a jury in the United States backed a claim by a groundsman that a pesticide contributed towards his terminal cancer. The firm has insisted British consumers are safe to use the product – declaring the “science…

The administration has imposed fresh sanctions on Russia in retaliation for the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury in March.

The Democratic establishment says sticking to the centre is the best way to win over Trump supporters.

Rick Gates, a high-ranking former member of Trump’s campaign team, has admitted in federal court that he committed financial crimes with his former boss, Paul Manafort.  

If the EU and the British Government want to keep trade flowing to protect the Iran nuclear deal, it doesn’t seem to be succeeding.

President Trump is facing an investigation into Russian involvement in the election two years ago by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. He’s been talking about it on Twitter – and one tweet in particular seems to be causing more trouble that most.

Police in the US have raided a makeshift compound in a remote area of New Mexico after receiving a tip off calling for food and water which led them to discover 11 emaciated children under the age of 15, as well as three women who are believed to be their mothers and two heavily armed men.…

The trial of Donald Trump’s former campaign chair, Paul Manafort, has begun in Virginia. It may not be about Russia, but it will be held in the shadow of the collusion controversy that’s long loomed over the White House. Of all the Americans charged so far in the Mueller Investigation, Mr Manafort is the first…

Facebook says it has identified a co-ordinated attempt to interfere in November’s mid-term elections in the United States. Ed Howker has been going through the details.

The FBI is reported to have a tape recording of Trump talking to his former lawyer Michael Cohen – just two months before he became President – about paying hush money to a Playboy model he was alleged to have had an affair with. Today the President described it an “inconceivable that a lawyer would…