A public clash between the US president and the FBI is simmering after the agency said it had "grave concerns" over the accuracy of a classified memo on the Russian collusion probe which Donald Trump wants to be released.

US president Donald Trump has declared he is "looking forward" to being questioned - under oath - in the special counsel's probe of Russian election interference.

President Donald Trump questioned the impartiality of the deputy director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe, who is planning to retire from the bureau in the months ahead after being buffeted by attacks over alleged anti-Trump bias in the agency.

US President Donald Trump has attacked his own FBI in a series of tweets and said the law enforcement agency's reputation was "in Tatters - worst in History!"

Fired FBI director James Comey has tweeted a Bible passage on the same morning that former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents.

Disgraced former US congressman Anthony Weiner should be spared from prison at his sentencing for sexting with a 15-year-old girl who dreamed about affecting the US presidential election, his lawyers said.

Two members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee have moved to protect special counsel Robert Mueller from being fired by president Donald Trump.

The US Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump's nominee Christopher Wray to serve as FBI director.

Donald Trump has complained about a Washington Post report that the Russian ambassador to the US said he discussed election-related issues with senator Jeff Sessions when the men met during the 2016 presidential race.

JOHN Mindermann is part of an unusual fraternity. A former agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), now 80 and retired in his hometown, San Francisco, he is among the relative handful of law-enforcement officials who have investigated a sitting president of the US.

Republican and Democrat leaders on the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee are threatening a subpoena unless the White House clarifies whether any recordings, memoranda or other documents exist of Donald Trump's meetings with sacked FBI director James Comey.

Congress is controlled by Republicans, and would not impeach him even if he was linked to alleged Russian interference in the US general election, says Elizabeth Drew.

"Lordy, I hope there are tapes," Mr Comey declared at a congressional hearing.

President Donald Trump has appeared to cast doubt on the assessment of 17 US intelligence agencies that blame Russia for election meddling, questioning why the Obama administration did not try to stop it.

Some Republican senators these days seem to be playing the Bad Guy in such an obvious way, they make the A-Team look like The Wire, writes Colm O’Regan

Donald Trump has appeared to confirm he is under investigation for obstruction of justice, claiming he is being probed for firing FBI director James Comey by the man who told him to do it.

A report into claims that €600,000 in agency funding was cut after whistleblowers exposed the Grace foster abuse scandal is being delayed because the HSE wants to remove some of its “true and accurate” conclusions. The allegation has been made by two whistleblowers at the centre of the case in a letter to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).

The special counsel appointed to investigate Russian influence in the 2016 US presidential campaign is now examining whether Donald Trump tried to obstruct justice, according to a report.

US attorney general Jeff Sessions has agreed to appear before the Senate intelligence committee as it investigates alleged Russian meddling in the presidential election.

Financial companies have led US stock indexes upwards, nudging the Nasdaq composite index to a record high.

This is Trump's first response to Comey's testimony

Russian officials have vehemently denied any role in hacking attacks on the Democratic National Convention and voter-registration databases.

It is less than five months since Donald Trump was sworn in as president but even in that time he and his billionaires’ junta have made fundamental changes to the relationships that sustained American hegemony and, more often than not, championed the liberal, tolerant values that defined the Western world.

US President Donald Trump has said he and his supporters "are under siege" but "will come out bigger and better and stronger than ever".

Twitter users have latched on to former FBI director James Comey's use of the word "lordy" during his Capitol Hill testimony about his interaction with US President Donald Trump.

Former FBI director James Comey will say in his opening statement to a congressional hearing that President Donald Trump told him "I need loyalty, I expect loyalty" during a January dinner.

US President Donald Trump has wished sacked FBI director James Comey luck ahead of his upcoming congressional testimony.

US President Donald Trump will not assert executive privilege to try to block testimony by sacked FBI director James Comey, the White House has confirmed.

Mr Kushner, a key White House adviser, had meetings with Moscow's ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak, and Russian banker Sergey Gorkov.

With reports of nervous White House staff trying to hide from a screaming president who spends his day in front of the TV, Elizabeth Drew looks at the possible way forward.

President Donald Trump said the first day of his maiden international trip has been "tremendous".

Former congressman Anthony Weiner has wept in court as he apologised to a 15-year-old girl with whom he exchanged sexually explicit texts.

The US attorney's office in Manhattan, New York, said the Democrat will appear in court on Friday.

US President Donald Trump has denounced the appointment of a special counsel to investigate his campaign's ties with Russia, calling it an unprecedented "witch hunt" that "hurts our country terribly".

US president Donald Trump has said the appointment of a special counsel to investigate allegations that his campaign collaborated with Russia to sway the 2016 election is "the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history".

The Flynn investigation was part of a broader probe into Russian interference in last year's presidential election.

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

So far 14 people have emerged as candidates to replace fired FBI Director James Comey.

Eight candidates for FBI director have been interviewed at Justice Department headquarters as US President Donald Trump suggested a decision on a nominee to replace Director James Comey could be announced within days.

President Donald Trump has become distrustful of some of his White House staff and heavily reliant on a handful of family members and long-time aides

President Donald Trump will address students at a Christian university in his first extended public appearance since he fired James Comey as FBI director this week.

Former FBI Director James Comey has declined an invitation to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee next week.

President Donald Trump has lashed out in a series of tweets amid a firestorm over the firing of FBI director James Comey, defending the shifting narrative and timeline his administration has offered for the decision.

Here is the text of the letter from President Donald Trump, officially informing James Comey of his dismlssal: