Saudi Arabian crown prince Mohammed bin Salman is under immense pressure after the journalist Khashoggi disappeared, writes David A Andelman

Two Republican senators have said that President Donald Trump would be wise to keep a public silence on an independent investigation into his 2016 campaign’s contacts with Russia in the wake of news reports he sought to fire the special counsel.

President Donald Trump has dismissed as "fake news" a New York Times report that he ordered the firing of special counsel Robert Mueller last June, but backed down after White House lawyer Don McGahn threatened to resign.

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.

The Palestinian president hit out at US president Donald Trump in a fiery, two-hour-long speech on Sunday, saying "shame on you" for his treatment of the Palestinians.

Donald Trump has appeared to threaten to cut off US aid money to the Palestinian Authority.

US President Donald Trump has predicted 2018 will be a "tremendous year" after bidding farewell to 2017 with a lavish party at his private club in Florida.

The Palestinian president has warned that US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital would jeopardise the White House's nascent Mideast peace efforts.

Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner is the "very senior transition official" referred to in court papers filed in the case of Michael Flynn who has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, sources said.

A lawyer for White House adviser Jared Kushner has pushed back after a Senate committee said he had not been fully forthcoming in its probe into Russian election interference.

The top US Republican and Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee have said President Donald Trump's son-in-law has not been fully forthcoming with the panel's probe into Russian election interference.

Melania Trump has hit back at Donald Trump's first wife for referring to herself as "first lady".

It is no secret that the bulk of Ivanka Trump’s merchandise comes from China. But just which Chinese companies manufacture and export her handbags, shoes and clothes is more secret than ever, an Associated Press investigation has found. By Erika Kinetz 

The comments drew an angry condemnation from the Palestinians and created a new test for the Trump administration.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's vow to never evacuate Jewish settlements from occupied land has drawn outrage from Palestinians.

Egypt's president and foreign minister have met with White House adviser Jared Kushner, just hours after the Trump administration cut or delayed hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Cairo over human rights concerns.

The ousted White House chief strategist was anti US military intervention abroad (including in North Korea) and was clamping down on China’s unethical trade practices, says Josh Cohen.

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

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

Donald Trump's former campaign chairman has met Senate investigators, giving his recollection of a Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer and agreeing to turn over contemporaneous notes of the gathering last year, sources said.

US president Donald Trump's son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner has returned to Capitol Hill for a second day of private meetings with congressional investigators.

Donald Trump has spoken to advisers about sacking his attorney general, as he rages against the legal chief's decision to excuse himself from anything to do with the Russia investigation.

White House senior adviser and President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner has said he did not collude with Russia.

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Donald Trump has said he has "complete power" to issue pardons, an assertion that comes amid investigations into Russian interference in last year's presidential election.

President Donald Trump had a second, previously undisclosed conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Germany earlier this month.

US president Donald Trump has defended his son's meeting with a Russian lawyer, saying it was standard campaign practice and maintaining "nothing happened" as a result.

Congressional investigators plan to question the former chairman of the Trump campaign and will subpoena him if necessary, the Senate Judiciary Committee panel's chairman has said.

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.

Suzanne Harrington takes an imaginary look inside the White House. 

Donald Trump will announce his decision on whether to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord during a White House Rose Garden event today.

Donald Trump is expected to withdraw the US from a landmark global climate agreement, a White House official has said, although aides are looking for "caveats in the language" related to the exit and the decision is not yet final.

Jared Kushner made the proposal at a meeting with the Russian ambassador to the US last December, a person familiar with the talks said.

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

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US president Donald Trump has cast the elusive pursuit of peace between Israelis and Palestinians as the "ultimate deal" as he continues his tour of the Middle East.

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

US president Donald Trump has condemned those who deny the Holocaust and pledged to confront anti-Semitism.

The US president has publicly criticised his chief strategist, but it is the latter’s feud with Trump’s son-in-law that may push him out of the inner circle, says Shannon Pettypiece

It took investigators two years to break Watergate, and six years to uncover Iran-Contra, writes Tim Weiner. There is no guarantee the probe into Russia and the 2016 election will move any quicker

The White House has publicly released the financial disclosures of top officials in the Trump administration.

As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the White House, the Trump administration is going back and forth over whether its vision for Middle East peace includes a Palestinian state.