Latest: President Donald Trump has tweeted his thanks to Steve Bannon after the latter left the White House.

President Donald Trump gave a less than ringing endorsement to his top strategist Steve Bannon during his press conference.

Latest: US President Donald Trump has used the resignations of three CNN journalists involved in a retracted Russia-related story to resume his attack on the network's credibility.

Three CNN journalists have resigned, following a retracted story about a supposed investigation into a meeting between an associate of US president Donald Trump and the head of a Russian investment fund.

Though many are comparing Trump’s sacking of the FBI director to Nixon’s infamous ‘Saturday Night Massacre’, the political landscape is very different now, writes Sean Wilentz

Bette Browne on all the president’s men (and women) who have the ear of the most powerful man in the world

Donald Trump, and even Bernie Sanders, rapidly became mainstream in 2016. It used to take years, even decades, for an outsider to become an insider, writes Alissa Quart.

Francis Fukuyama looks at how the leaking of bad information is being used by those who would like to have authoritarian power at their fingertips.

While racist groups have proliferated in the US for some time, the arrival of Donald Trump has emboldened them, writes Bette Browne

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.

Republican US presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has criticised the Iran nuclear deal as “marching the Israelis to the door of the oven”, a reference to the Holocaust.