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Donald Trump speaks to reporters as US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth listens while travelling aboard Air Force One.

Hegseth’s holy war will be just another failed crusade

The White House doesn’t seem to have learnt any lessons from the past.

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Robert Mueller.

Former FBI director Robert Mueller, who investigated Russia-Trump campaign ties, dies

Former FBI chief Robert Mueller was maligned by the US president throughout his two-year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US election.

  • Eric Tucker
Bill Clinton (right) with Jeffrey Epstein.

Inside the Clintons’ fight to avoid testifying in the US Congress over Epstein

A quiet, months-long battle between a Republican congressman and Bill and Hillary Clinton could come to a head this week.

  • Annie Karni
US President Donald Trump will lose the legal protections that prevent lawsuits when his term ends.

See you in court: the lawyers waiting for Trump

Donald Trump faces a blizzard of lawsuits and even the potential threat of jail when he leaves office next year, as he will lose the legal protections afforded to a sitting president.

  • David Millward
A supporter of President-elect Joe Biden holds a sign referring to President Donald Trump outside the Pennsylvania State Capitol, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, in Harrisburg, Pa., after Biden defeated Trump to become 46th president of the United States. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Trump will tarnish own achievement if he refuses to accept defeat

You’d think that Trump and his allies would take solace in knowing that he saved the nation from a radical progressive agenda, which a Democratic sweep would have delivered.

  • Tom Switzer
President Donald Trump and former White House insider Michael Cohen.

Trump a 'cheat' who idolised Putin, mocked Nelson Mandela: Cohen book

The US President's former lawyer also alleges that media figures ran deliberate misinformation campaigns against Trump's political rivals.

  • Ashley Parker and Rosalind S. Helderman
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Former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

Appeals court keeps Michael Flynn case alive, won't order dismissal

The decision keeps the matter at least temporarily alive and rebuffs efforts by both Flynn's lawyers and the Justice Department to force the prosecution to be dropped.

  • Eric Tucker
Former special counsel Robert Mueller.

US Senate will call Mueller to testify on Russia probe

Senator Lindsey Graham said he will make the former special counsel front a Senate Judiciary Committee, after Mueller penned an op-ed rebuking critics of his investigation.

  • Catie Edmondson
Robert Mueller.

Mueller breaks silence following Roger Stone commutation

The former special counsel investigating Russian ties in the 2016 Trump election campaign has defended the work of his team after Trump gave clemency to Roger Stone.

  • Devlin Barrett
Michael Flynn, former US national security adviser.

‘Never seen anything like this’: Experts question Flynn case surprise

The case against Michael Flynn had become a political cause for Trump and his supporters and Trump had signalled a pardon. But the AG short-circuited it.

  • Charlie Savage