US President Donald Trump has ridiculed the looks and temperament of a female cable television host whose show he says he has stopped watching.

Donald Trump's supporters have accused CNN of censorship for not airing an advertisement touting the president's accomplishments after the network said it rejected it because of its claims about "fake news".

President Donald Trump earned $153m (€144m) and paid $36.5m (€34.3m) in income taxes in 2005, according to leaked documents.

US President Donald Trump has insisted that comments by his Supreme Court nominee criticising his attacks on the judiciary were "misrepresented", even as Republican and Democratic politicians vouched for the veracity of the remarks.

The relationship between the US president and the Russian leader could suffer as they begin to deal with some of the more pressing issues, writes Josh Cohen.

The widow of the Orlando nightclub gunman has been charged with helping her husband in the months leading up to the massacre that left 49 people dead.

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US president-elect Donald Trump has re-opened the debate over nuclear proliferation, calling for America to "greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability" until the rest of the world "comes to its senses" regarding nuclear weapons.

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Whether it’s by backing French ultra-nationalists, the Brexit campaign, or Catalan separatists, the Kremlin believes it benefits every time discord is sown in the West, argues Owen Matthews

Republicans disenchanted with Donald Trump as the party’s presidential candidate plan to put forth a conservative alternative — the former top House Republican aide and former CIA officer Evan McMullin.

Bette Browne looks at the notorious campaign run so far by the the Republican candidate for the US presidency, Donald Trump

Donald Trump has called for Republicans to rally behind his presidential candidacy after he cruised to primary victories in three more states.

This US presidential election is seen as one of the most bizarre in modern times, with Republican frontrunner Donald Trump setting the tone. But now Jeb Bush is joining in by questioning another candidate’s height and the boots he wears.

The Las Vegas news cycle doesn’t roll around quite like the rest of the United States. Even a brief few minutes stuck sitting in an airport terminal stateside, with just a TV locked on a 24-hour news network for company, can shred the soul. CNN, FOX, MSNBC, choose your poison.

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump likened his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States to World War II policies implemented by US president Franklin Roosevelt against people of Japanese, German and Italian descent.

The lawyer for a white Chicago police officer charged in the 2014 murder of a black teenager said yesterday that his client had feared for his life. He also said that dashboard camera footage released by police is unreliable, because video “distorts images”.

Senator John McCain urged Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to apologise to US military families for saying prisoners of war are not heroes in his first direct response to remarks by Trump.

A white man suspected of killing nine people in a Bible study group at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, was arrested yesterday. Officials are investigating the attack as a hate crime.

Days after winning Israel’s election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be backtracking from hardline statements that ruled out the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Germany and the European Commission slapped down talk of a third financial rescue for Greece as premature, after Spain once again suggested yesterday that a new aid package for Athens was almost inevitable.

From the gold laden glitter of an Aztec headdress adorning Miss Honduras to the perky buzby sported by Miss Great Britain and the fearsome Celtic warrior floated on stage by Ireland’s Lisa Madden, the national costume show was all about pride of place during the 63rd annual Miss Universe Competition at Florida International University in Miami.

Even the President isn't immune from eye-rolls.

Even the President of the United States isn’t safe from the teenage eye-roll and disdainful arm-crossing.

US police officers in St Louis shot and killed a 23-year-old man who they say was wielding a knife and refused to drop it. 

The problems that arose during the attempted execution of an inmate in the US could hasten the end of capital punishment, says Heide Brandes in Oklahoma City.

'30 Rock' actor Alec Baldwin is beginning to "crave" Los Angeles after over 30 years in the Big Apple, because he thinks he would be able to give wife Hilaria and their six-month-old daughter Carmen a more peaceful and private life.

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MSNBC TV host Martin Bashir resigned from the network today, nearly three weeks after making graphic remarks on the air about former Alaska governor Sarah Palin.

Alec Baldwin’s new TV talk show has been suspended, according to MSNBC.

A Canadian bit-part actress bombarded Alec Baldwin with lovesick, demanding messages, packed her belongings and arrived uninvited at the actor’s homes in Manhattan and the Hamptons, a court has heard.

Much of the vast machinery of the US government has ground to a halt as Democrats and Republicans blamed each other for a partial shutdown that closed federal agencies, national parks and research facilities across the nation.

Alec Baldwin is to host a chat show.

The '30 Rock' actor has been approached by MSNBC to present a weekly programme, which “will feature a large dose of Baldwin’s outspoken liberal politics” airing on Friday nights, according to Mediate.

Faced with a trio of controversies, President Barack Obama is trying to halt a perception spreading among both White House opponents and allies that he has been passive and disengaged as unexpected developments consume his second term.