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Donald John Trump, born June 14, 1946, became the 45th President of the United States in 2017, after he defeated Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the general election of 2016. He was preceded by Barack Obama, who was in office for two terms between January 20, 2009 and January 20, 2017. He was succeeded by Joe Biden, who became 46th President of the United States on January 20, 2021.
Bizarre recent headlines around Donald Trump and other notable Republicans suggest US politics is spinning out of control, but there is reason to hope. House Speaker Mike Johnson getting aid for Ukraine passed suggests there are limits to the extremism in the Republican Party and sanity can still prevail.
Note from 12 Republican senators threatens court’s chief prosecutor, family and associates with sanctions in bid to protect Israeli leaders.
Latest US protectionist moves targeting Chinese steel and aluminium imports, together with other measures, risk another damaging round of trade war.
- Stormy Daniels’ husband Barrett Blade said that the couple will probably leave the country if former president Donald Trump gets acquitted in his ongoing ‘hush money’ criminal trial
- Daniels quietly married her fourth husband Blade in 2022; they met for the first time at a bar back in 1998, and he bought Daniels her ‘dream home’ – a horse ranch in Florida
Jurors heard audio clips of Cohen saying the case ‘fills me with delight’ and that he felt ‘giddy with hope and laughter’ imagining Trump and his family in jail.
Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur is at the centre of a Republican effort to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress, the Justice Department told lawmakers on Thursday.
Analysts say Beijing is preparing ‘for all types of situations’ in a trade war with the US that shows no sign of abating after six years, as the leading presidential candidates vow to turn up the heat.
Republican Trump replied he was ready to ‘rumble’, after being challenged by the Democratic incumbent.
As Donald Trump faces a historic criminal trial, senior Republicans are beating a path to his New York courtroom to hammer home the narrative of a witch hunt and launch proxy attacks on witnesses he is barred from targeting.
The former fixer’s own insult’s about his ex-boss – ‘Dictator douchebag’, ‘Cheeto-dusted cartoon villain’ – were used to paint him as a disgruntled turncoat.
The former adult film star was ‘paralysed with fear’ before giving testimony on her alleged sexual encounter with Trump in 2006.
US President Joe Biden also gives his action a political edge, criticising Donald Trump, his predecessor and challenger for re-election, for failing to increase US exports and boost manufacturing.
China should also ‘prepare for the worst’ but ‘do its best’ in response to further trade and tech frictions, Yang Jiemian tells summit in Hong Kong.
US Senator Bob Menendez went on trial in Manhattan federal court, accused of accepting bribes of gold and cash to use his influence to deliver favours that would help three New Jersey businessmen.
Donald Trump’s one-time fixer and the star prosecution witness at the former president’s criminal trial testified how the then-Republican candidate directed him to pay a porn actress to bury revelations of an alleged tryst.
The United States is reportedly planning to raise tariffs on Chinese clean energy goods such as electric vehicles, batteries and solar products, with an announcement expected this week.
Asian advocacy organisations worry the rhetoric could encourage further harassment and violence toward the Asian community.
‘The late, great Hannibal Lecter is a wonderful man,’ former US President Donald Trump said at a rally, referencing the fictional cannibal from 1991 film Silence of the Lambs.
While the former US ambassador to the UN has acknowledged that Trump would be the Republican nominee, she has so far not endorsed him.
The ex-US president’s youngest son will not be representing Florida at the Republican Party convention, a statement from his mother Melania Trump’s office says.
Riley Roberts and New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, aka AOC, met at age 19 as Boston University students, started dating, split after graduating – then got back together around 5 years ago
The star witness, who was the ex-US president’s former lawyer, had spoken on social media while wearing a T-shirt depicting Trump behind bars.
The US will impose new, elevated tariffs that focus on key industries including electric vehicles, batteries and solar cells, according to Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal.
Six months before the US presidential election, pollsters are scrambling to get an accurate read on the people voting for Donald Trump, a group that has systematically eluded them for eight years and counting.
She’s taken the stand as a witness in the ex-president’s hush money trial, but the notorious adult film star also dabbles in the occult, enjoys family time at her ranch and continues her work in showbiz.
The ex-US president’s lawyer asked her about different accounts she had given of the incident, seeking to undermine the porn star’s credibility as a witness in the hush money trial.
Donald Trump said “What Biden is doing with respect to Israel is disgraceful,” in reference to the president’s threat to stop sending weapons to Israel as it wages war against the Palestinian militant group in Gaza.
Democrats joined Republicans in a 359-43 vote, avoiding a replay of the chaos in October when predecessor Kevin McCarthy was removed from the role.
Xi’s arrival and remarks published in Serbia coincided with 25th anniversary of US air strike that killed three Chinese journalists.
The independent White House hopeful made the claim in a 2012 deposition as part of his divorce from his second wife, but says he has since recovered.
The decision comes a day after a Florida judge postponed the classified documents trial indefinitely, as the list of stalled cases against the ex-US president grows.
