The US president has been condemned for tweeting about conspiracies linking Bill Clinton to the sudden death of Jeffrey Epstein, write John Whitesides

Timothy L O’Brien says describing Donald Trump’s racist baiting of four new Democratic congresswomen of different ethnic backgrounds as ‘strategic’ gives him too much credit.

The Hatch Act bars federal employees from engaging in political activity in the course of their work, according to the newspaper, something Ms Conway is alleged to have done during numerous television interviews and on social media.

Donald Trump's new communications director has exploded smouldering tensions at the White House into a wildfire, angrily daring the US president's chief of staff to deny he was a "leaker" and exposing West Wing backstabbing in language more suited to a gangster movie.

Mark Leibovich takes stock of how Washington has — and hasn’t — changed in the time of Trump

IT is now nearly 70 years since George Orwell’s fabulously dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was published and in that time it has become one of the most influential books ever written. 

"I was ready to ram her face into her own spaghetti."

The enduring power of symbolism and the different ways in which society deals with it.

Here’s a look inside the strange symbiosis between TV boss Jeff Zucker and the US president he helped create, with Jonathan Mahler.

US president Donald Trump's new travel ban order will temporarily halt entries to the US for people from six Muslim-majority countries who are seeking new visas, sources revealed.

Here's your morning bulletin.

The White House has broken its silence on the future of Michael Flynn as a senior adviser said Donald Trump retains "full confidence" in his national security adviser after reports that he misled senior officials about contacts with Russia.

Here's your morning bulletin.

Top White House adviser Kellyanne Conway has been "counselled" after she urged people to buy Ivanka Trump products during an interview on Fox News.

Here's your evening bulletin.

The first official press briefing by Donald Trump’s administration will be held later amid a series of attacks on the media by senior White House figures.

Donald Trump's top aides have said the US president-elect is not ready to accept the finding by intelligence officials that Moscow hacked Democratic emails in a bid to elevate the billionaire property mogul.

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani has formally withdrawn from consideration for a post in President-elect Donald Trump's administration.

Donald Trump has claimed without evidence that "millions" voted illegally in the presidential election and said it was rigged even as he prepares to enter the White House.

President-elect Donald Trump is connecting with foreign leaders and considering new cabinet prospects as he gathers with his family for a long Thanksgiving weekend at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

Donald Trump wants to help Hillary Clinton "heal" and will not pursue a probe of her private email server, according to a senior adviser to the president-elect.

President-elect Donald Trump is embarking on the massive undertaking of creating a new administration as a circus-like atmosphere unfolds around his building in Manhattan.

Donald Trump has defied the polls and the odds to be elected the 45th President of the United States.

The FBI's director has been warned he could have broken US law by announcing an investigation into emails potentially linked to Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton enters the final full week of the US presidential race on the defence once again over her use of a private email system.

Buoyant US presidential contender Hillary Clinton says she is looking past Donald Trump and widening her mission to help fellow Democrats seize the Senate and chip away at the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.

Donald Trump has suggested that he is open to "softening" laws dealing with illegal immigrants in the US, in the latest sign that the Republican presidential nominee is considering easing the hardline stance he has taken since the beginning of his campaign.

Republican Donald Trump says he’s not vacillating when it comes to his proposal to deport the estimated 11 million people living in the US illegally — even though his new campaign manager now says his stance is “to be determined”.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has apologised for past remarks that “may have caused personal pain” as he sought to refocus his message in the face of falling opinion poll numbers in his first speech since shaking up his campaign team this week.

Donald Trump has reshuffled his campaign team for the second time in two months as he trails Hillary Clinton in the polls in most key battleground states.

HOWARD DEAN’S bizarre rant in the face of his Iowa defeat was the talk of America yesterday - with political pros saying it could doom his presidential bid.