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Donald Trump's past ties with Jeffrey Epstein are under scrutiny after the US president slammed a Wall Street Journal report that he sent a lewd letter to the infamous sex offender as "fake news."

Ballot heaps pressure on Ishiba’s minority government just as it attempts to negotiate deal to avert Trump tariffs

Premier says he would remain in office to oversee tariff talks with US, but analysts say he faces political headwinds.

Ex-federal prosecutors say a Justice Department request to unseal grand jury transcripts in the prosecution of chronic sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein and his former girlfriend is unlikely to produce much, if anything, to satisfy the public's appetite for new revelations about the financier's crimes

Legal advocates and attorneys general argue practice poses accountability issues and contributes to climate of fear

They claim to reflect public sentiment. But they’re better thought of as just another species of misinformation

US defense secretary reverted to Fort Bragg and Fort Benning, but the men they honor aren’t role models

Trailblazing Illinois Democrat reflects on political career and says party is ‘in a daze’ about how to combat Trump

A diverse group of volunteers from faith leaders to grandmothers to retired lawyers have been escorting people to immigration courts across the country

Six months into his second term, the president has been disastrous for democracy – but extraordinarily politically adept

The Democratic Party took to social media to share a reference to iconic rapper Kendrick Lamar, alluding to the presence of pedophiles in the Trump administration White House.