President Donald Trump is back in the New York skyscraper that bears his name as anger over his reaction to race-fuelled clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend shows few signs of dying down.

Here's your lunchtime news bulletin.

At least two of HNA Group’s overseas deals have hit a hurdle as the Chinese conglomerate struggles to take money out of China, said sources, amid a widening crackdown by Beijing on debt-fuelled corporate acquisitions.

With the sacking of Anthony Scaramucci, General John Kelly showed he meant business, but whether he can control Donald Trump remains to be seem, writes Bette Browne

Here's what you need to know this lunchtime. 

Catch up on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com this morning.

Latest: White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci has been fired after less than 10 days in the post.

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.

Newly-appointed White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci is threatening to get the FBI involved in a crackdown on leaks from the Trump administration.

US President Donald Trump's new communications adviser has said it is time to hit the "reset button".

White House press secretary Sean Spicer has abruptly resigned over President Donald Trump's decision to ask a financier to lead his beleaguered communications team.

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

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.