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Congress won’t give him the money for his wall, so President Trump is planning to build it without them.

Trump’s calls for co-operation on the border wall may have fallen flat, but the President took a softer tone, rather than his trademark fury at the State of the Union address.

First it was on, then it was off, and now it’s back on again. President Trump’s State of the Union Address to Congress will finally get under way in a few hours.

A severe weather warning is in force across parts of the UK. Meanwhile, in some areas of the USA, at least eight people have been killed as temperatures hit record lows – even colder than the South Pole.

President Trump is facing a backlash from conservatives dismayed that he’s agreed a temporary end to the record 35-day US government shutdown – without funding for his border wall. Mr Trump insisted his deal was “in no way a concession” – but Democratic leaders say they’ve got the upper hand – relishing a rare victory…

Rick Wilson is a Republican political strategist who is fiercely critical of Donald Trump. Roger Stone says he would plead not guilty and fight charges including witness tampering and false statements.

The FBI came for him before dawn, dressed in combat gear, using night-vision equipment and shouting “Open the door”, before arresting former Trump campaign aide Roger Stone as part of the investigation into alleged Russian collusion. Nothing to do with us, the White House insisted, while Stone declared he would plead not guilty and fight charges…

The United States House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees are to investigate whether President Trump told his former lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress under oath. It comes after Buzzfeed News reported claims that the President instructed Mr Cohen to lie about a plan to build a Trump Tower in Russia. The President’s current lawyer, Rudy Giuliani,…

The US federal government has been shut down now for 27 days… that’s 800,000 staff who haven’t been paid – while projections of the lost economic growth have doubled. A new poll suggests President Trump’s approval rating is falling, even among his closest supporters – although he’s still blaming his Democratic rivals for the impasse…

Now what if a black man was shot by police – with the whole thing recorded by an eyewitness on his mobile phone turning the case into a national scandal, inflaming passions and dividing loyalties in the local community.

Tomorrow, the US government shutdown will become the longest in history, as President Trump refuses to back down to Congress over funding for his border wall. His address to the nation failed to convince many that there is a ‘growing crisis’. Now he’s arrived on the border to carry on his campaign.

President Trump has ramped up his standoff with Congress over his demand for a Mexican border wall, using a bill designed to tackle human trafficking to push his case.

Last year the Golden Globes were dominated by female stars donning black at the height of the Me Too movement. This year the event was rocked in a different way. Critics expected Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga’s ‘A Star is Born’ to win big.

There is no end in sight for the partial shutdown of the United States government as Democrats refuse to grant President Donald Trump the funds he wants to build a wall along the border with Mexico. A government shutdown occurs when Congress fails to agree on a budget for the next fiscal year – it…

President Trump has threatened a US government shutdown, warning it would “last a very long time”, as he poured scorn on the Democrats for failing to support funding for a wall along the Mexican border, which he described as “like the wheel, there is nothing better”. But more significant is the loss of his defence secretary General…