Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is proposing to push back the start of Donald Trump’s impeachment trial to give the former president time to prepare and review his case.

Donald Trump hinted at a comeback as he said farewell to Washington while breaking tradition to avoid the inauguration ceremony of new US President Joe Biden. “So just a goodbye.

One name missing in US president Donald Trump’s flurry of pardons is Tiger King Joe Exotic.

President Donald Trump trumpeted his administration’s accomplishments and wished his successor luck in a farewell video as he spent his final full day in office preparing to issue a flurry of pardons in a near-deserted White House, surrounded by an ...

The pardons and commutations for 143 people, including Bannon, were announced after midnight on Wednesday in the final hours of Trump’s White House term.

US President Donald Trump is expected to pardon his former chief strategist Steve Bannon as part of a flurry of last-minute clemency action, a source said.

President Donald Trump will leave Washington next Wednesday morning, ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.

President Donald Trump took no responsibility for his part in stoking a violent insurrection in Washington last week, despite his comments encouraging supporters to march on the Capitol and praise for them while they were still carrying out the ...

Donald Trump is visiting the US-Mexico border in Texas to promote one of the pillars of his presidency: his campaign against illegal immigration and building a wall along the southern border.

US president Donald Trump has said the prospect of impeachment is causing “tremendous anger” in the nation but that he wants “no violence”.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has labelled Donald Trump as the “worst president ever” in a video calling for unity after the deadly US Capitol riots.

Chrissy Teigen could not hide her glee after Donald Trump was banned from Twitter.

Will voters see compromise as a step towards consensus, as a foil to unsustainable extremism and division? Or might they cling ever more fervently to partisan positions? 

An arrest warrant was issued for outgoing President Donald Trump in connection with the killing of an Iranian general and a powerful Iraqi militia leader last year, Iraq’s judiciary said.

President Donald Trump has urged his supporters to “go home”, but is also keeping up claims that the results of the November election were fraudulent.

The US President, who was overwhelmingly defeated in November’s election, is reportedly considering travelling to his Turnberry golf resort to avoid Mr Biden being sworn into office.

President Donald Trump declared on Monday night he would “fight like hell” to hold on to the presidency and appealed to Republican lawmakers to reverse his election loss to Joe Biden when they convene this week to confirm the Electoral College vote.

President Donald Trump is cutting short his Florida holiday holiday to return to Washington a day earlier than expected on Thursday, for reasons officials did not explain.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has all but shut the door on President Donald Trump’s push for 2,000 dollar (£1,476) Covid-19 relief cheques, declaring Congress has provided enough pandemic aid as he blocked another attempt by Democrats to ...

President Donald Trump’s push for larger 2,000 dollar (£1,476) Covid-19 relief cheques stalled on Tuesday in the Senate as Republicans blocked a swift vote proposed by Democrats and split within their own ranks over whether to boost spending or defy ...

The US House of Representatives has voted to increase Covid-19 relief cheques in the country to 2,000 dollars (£1,476), meeting President Donald Trump’s demand for bigger payments and sending the bill to the Republican-controlled Senate, where the ...

President Donald Trump signed a $900bn pandemic relief package on Sunday, ending days of drama over his refusal to accept the bipartisan deal that will deliver long-sought cash to businesses and individuals and avert a federal government shutdown.

President Donald Trump appeared no closer to signing an end-of-year Covid-19 relief and spending bill on Sunday as millions of people lost unemployment aid, the government careered towards a mid-pandemic shutdown and politicians implored him to act.

President Donald Trump has thrown the spending bill's progress into limbo

President Donald Trump spent his Christmas golfing in Florida as a government shutdown looms and Covid relief hangs in the balance.

US President Donald Trump has issued pardons and sentence commutations for 29 people, including former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law.

Donald Trump has pardoned 15 people including two men convicted of lying to investigators in a probe into the president’s election campaign.

President Donald Trump floated naming lawyer Sidney Powell, who was booted from his campaign’s legal team after pushing unfounded conspiracy theories, as a special counsel investigating allegations of voter fraud as he grasps for straws to stay in ...

Boris Johnson is torn between reason and unreason, between those who believe Britain will be damaged for years by no deal and those who believe sovereignty is the only thing that will set Britain free

Conservative groups claiming without evidence that the November 3 election was stolen from President Donald Trump staged protests across the country on Saturday, with one in Washington turning violent at times as police broke up sporadic clashes ...

President Donald Trump has been highlighting several really big numbers this week: New highs for the stock market. The 100-plus House members backing a lawsuit challenging his election loss. The nearly 75 million people who voted for him.

No president has attempted to pardon himself while in office, so if Mr Trump tries to do so in the next six weeks, he will be venturing into legally untested territory 

US President Donald Trump is pressing his grievances over losing the presidential election, using a weekend rally to spread baseless allegations of misconduct in last month’s voting in Georgia and beyond.

US President Donald Trump pressed his own grievances over losing the presidential election at a rally in Georgia at the expense of the political battle for control of the Senate.

US president Donald Trump has pressed Georgia’s governor to call a special legislative session aimed at overturning the presidential election results in that state.

Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka has been interviewed by government lawyers alleging the president’s 2017 inauguration committee misused donor funds, a new court filing has revealed.

Donald Trump stood before a White House lectern and delivered a 46-minute diatribe against the election that produced a win for Democrat Joe Biden, uttering a series of claims to back his baseless assertion that he really won.

President Donald Trump hinted at running for president again in 2024 as he hosted a holiday reception at the White House on Tuesday evening.

President Donald Trump sought to leverage the power of the Oval Office on Friday in an extraordinary attempt to block President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, but his pleas to Michigan lawmakers to overturn the will of their constituents appeared to ...

President Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, has been infected with coronavirus, a spokesman has said. The spokesman said the younger Trump learned of his diagnosis earlier this week, but he has no symptoms and has been quarantining.

President Donald Trump and his allies are taking increasingly frantic steps to subvert the results of the 2020 US election, including summoning state legislators to the White House as part of a bid to overturn Joe Biden’s victory.

President Donald Trump has appeared to acknowledge for the first time that Joe Biden has won the White House, but made clear he would not concede and would kept trying to overturn the election result.

There were clashes with counter-protesters on Saturday evening, with at least one stabbing and 20 arrests

Thousands of supporters of US president Donald Trump have rallied behind his spurious claim of a stolen election and swarmed his motorcade in Washington DC when he detoured for a drive-by on his way out of the city.

US president Donald Trump has delighted supporters gathered near the White House with a slow motorcade drive-by through Washington on the way to his Virginia golf club.

Donald Trump has said only “time will tell” who will be in the White House next year in his first public remarks since Joe Biden was declared the winner of the US presidential election

Donald Trump has hailed developments in the race for a coronavirus vaccine as he delivered his first public remarks since his election defeat by President-elect Joe Biden.

US president Donald Trump has visited the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery, emerging in public for the first time since his failed re-election bid.

Controversy has surrounded Boris Johnson’s tweet congratulating Joe Biden on his US election victory after sharp eyed social media users spotted the word “Trump” showing faintly in the background of the message.

Donald Trump routinely uses his Twitter account to divert attention away from topics that are potentially harmful to his reputation, according to a study.