Donald Trump

Can US states right Trump's wrongs?

US President Donald Trump, with the help of a Republican-controlled Congress, is undermining many of the fundamental values that Americans hold dear.
14 June 2017, 18:00 PM

US bars throwing 'covfefe' parties for televised Comey testimony

US bars are offering $5 Russian vodka drinks, “impeachmint” cocktails and free drinks with every presidential tweet to draw crowds to watch fired FBI Director James Comey's televised testimony to Congress.
9 June 2017, 06:05 AM

Ex-FBI chief Comey says Trump pressured him on Russia probe

Fired FBI director James Comey says that Donald Trump urged him to drop a probe into former national security advisor Michael Flynn, prompting fresh allegations that the US president tried to obstruct justice.
8 June 2017, 04:30 AM

Stay the course with Rouhani

Hassan Rouhani has won re-election as Iran's president in a landslide, meaning that it is he who will be dealing with an antagonistic US President Donald Trump.
23 May 2017, 18:00 PM

Trump, in tweets, defends his sharing of information with Russians

US President Donald Trump defends his decision to disclose information to Russian officials during a White House meeting last week, saying he had an "absolute right" to share "facts pertaining to terrorism and airline flight safety."
16 May 2017, 12:35 PM

US President Donald Trump fires FBI Director James Comey

US President Donald Trump ignites a political firestorm by firing FBI Director James Comey, who had been leading an investigation into the Trump 2016 presidential campaign's possible collusion with Russia to influence the election outcome.
10 May 2017, 04:18 AM

Trump son-in-law Kushner to face Russia investigation panel

Donald Trump's son-in-law and top aide Jared Kushner will appear before a Senate panel investigating Russian interference in the US election, the White House said Monday.
28 March 2017, 04:58 AM

Trump tax bill revealed in fresh leak

The White House said President Donald Trump earned $150 million in 2005 and paid over $38 million in taxes, revealing previously undisclosed details as his tax return for that year was leaked.
15 March 2017, 04:26 AM

CIA contractors likely source of latest WikiLeaks release: US officials

Contractors likely breached security and handed over documents describing the Central Intelligence Agency's use of hacking tools to anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, US intelligence and law enforcement officials say.
9 March 2017, 10:51 AM

How Trump is testing democracy

World leaders seem to be at a loss about how to approach relations with US President Donald Trump, given his worrying positions and often-bizarre behaviour toward politicians and the media, allies and enemies alike.
1 March 2017, 18:00 PM

How war on Islam became central to the Trump doctrine

It was the moment the world sat up and started to take notice of the US presidential campaign. Donald Trump had made headlines before, in June 2015, when he had called for a “great, great wall” along the Mexican border.
2 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Football: Trump policies cloud potential US World Cup bid

President Donald Trump's controversial immigration policies could hurt an expected U.S. bid to host the 2026 World Cup although plenty of time remains for concerns to ease before the decision by world soccer's governing body FIFA.
1 February 2017, 08:58 AM

An American Brexit?

It was beyond the imagination, even of the many diehard 'Trumpians' who, reportedly, were invoking a miracle for a Trump win.
9 November 2016, 18:00 PM

[WATCH] Dhakaites react to victory of Donald Trump

Dhaka dwellers express their instant reaction as Donald Trump wins the American election to become the 45th President of the United States.
9 November 2016, 12:55 PM

Trump would spend billions more on military, but for what? experts ask

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s US military buildup plan would cost hundreds of billions of dollars - but with no apparent strategy, defense experts from across the political spectrum say.
9 September 2016, 13:28 PM

Melania Trump sues Daily Mail, blogger over 'defamatory' stories

Melania Trump, the wife of US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, sued the Maryland-based publisher of the Daily Mail Online and a blogger over stories about her past which she believes were "tremendously damaging," her attorney says in a statement.
2 September 2016, 11:13 AM

Trump's train wreck

There is little reason to think Trump's new staffing arrangement will yield a new, more coherent candidate. Throughout the campaign, he has vacillated wildly between poise and pugilism.
30 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Many donors to Clinton Foundation met with Hillary at State

More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state are found to have given money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation.
24 August 2016, 12:58 PM

Trump hammers claim of fraud in new ad

Donald Trump's newest campaign ad begins with a warning: "In Hillary Clinton's America, the system stays rigged against Americans."
20 August 2016, 05:07 AM

Embattled Trump campaign chairman Manafort resigns

Paul Manafort, the embattled chairman of Donald Trump's presidential campaign who has been under fire in connection with a Ukrainian corruption investigation, tenders his resignation.
19 August 2016, 14:20 PM