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Implicated by his own justice department in a felony, Donald Trump has seen the stock market plunge as the tide begins to turn against him, writes Elizabeth Drew

Donald Trump's bookkeeper for his personal and business affairs for decades has been granted immunity in the federal probe into the president's former lawyer Michael Cohen, according to reports.

From Washington to Pyongyang, Paul Manafort may change how the US and its tweeting president are viewed, writes David Eckles Wade.

Your lunchtime headlines.

Behold, Stormy Daniels is risen! From behind an unsigned — therefore legally invalid — non-disclosure agreement, the porn star walks amongst men, making the orangest one squirm and quake in his handmade shoes.

Porn star Stormy Daniels believes she is now free to discuss her alleged sexual encounter with US President Donald Trump, her manager has told The Associated Press.

Donald Trump's personal lawyer has filed a defamation lawsuit against BuzzFeed for publishing an unverified dossier of allegations about the president's White House campaign and Russia.

Republicans in the US have launched new probes into the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton's emails

The Kremlin has confirmed that President Donald Trump's personal lawyer reached out to them during the 2016 presidential campaign, seeking help for a business project in Russia.

Donald Trump's personal lawyer has rejected a request for documents as part of Congress's investigation into Russia's election meddling and contacts with the Trump campaign.

Timothy L O’Brien asks why Donald Trump — via one of his top advisers — is so close to a violent fraudster with mob connections who has tried to influence US foreign policy.   

Billionaire Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump took a break from the campaign trail yesterday as he reported for jury duty in New York.

An attorney for Republican presidential contender Donald Trump apologised for making the incorrect assertion that "by the very definition, you can’t rape your spouse".

Donald Trump was battling a PR disaster after his lawyer claimed it was impossible to rape a spouse by the “very definition” of marriage.

New York’s attorney general has sued Donald Trump for $40m (€30m), saying the real estate mogul helped run a phoney “Trump University” that promised to make students rich but instead steered them into expensive and mostly useless seminars, and even failed to deliver promised apprenticeships.

A Russian woman claims to have been keeping an alien in her fridge for two years.

A British shark attack victim whose leg was bitten off was saved by quick-thinking bystanders who applied a makeshift tourniquet from a wetsuit and two belts, a surgeon said today.

A British man has lost one leg and part of another and is fighting for his life after he was attacked by a shark while swimming in South Africa.

Strange noises, disturbing events … a secluded house outside Bucharest, a couple facing the nightmares.

ANOREXIA nervosa is now affecting children as young as eight, Australian doctors warned yesterday.

Anorexia nervosa is now affecting children as young as eight, Australian doctors warned today.

THE wife of a murdered criminal, who was yesterday forced to testify at his inquest, more than six years after his death, could face perjury charges.

Nelson Mandela has begun radiation therapy after being diagnosed with prostate cancer.