
Donald Trump has engaged in a furious exchange of tweets and counter-tweets with a Republican senator, saying he "couldn't get elected dog catcher" while the congressman fired back that the president was "utterly untruthful".

US president Donald Trump intends to spend at least US$430,000 of his own money to help pay the legal bills of staff and campaign aides related to the investigations into Russian election meddling in the 2016 election, a White House official said.

Former White House adviser Steve Bannon has described former US president George W Bush as bumbling and inept, criticising his "destructive" presidency from 2000-2008.

Donald Trump has controversially linked an increase in recorded crime with the "spread of radical Islamic terror" in the UK.

President Donald Trump has given himself a "10" for his response to the widespread devastation Puerto Rico suffered after back-to-back hurricanes.

White House chief of staff John Kelly delivered an extraordinary denunciation of a Democratic congresswoman today, accusing her of politicising what he called a "sacred" presidential effort to console the grieving loved ones of a slain soldier.

Latest: Donald Trump has claimed a congresswoman "fabricated" an account of him telling the widow of a US soldier killed in an ambush in Niger that her husband "knew what he signed up for".

A judge in Hawaii has blocked the latest version of the Trump administration travel ban just hours before it was set to take effect.

Donald Trump has been slammed for what the sister of a soldier killed in the Iraq war suggested were false claims about his predecessors in the White House.

Donald Trump has renewed his threat to fully withdraw the US from the landmark Iran nuclear deal. He also held out the possibility that fixes to the accord could prevent an American pullout.

US president Donald Trump will ask America's allies to put pressure on North Korea over its nuclear programme in a trip to the Asia-Pacific region.

Brendan O'Carroll did not hold back while describing Donald Trump on last night's Late Late Show.

Donald Trump has refused to recertify the nuclear deal between the US and Iran, saying Tehran is not living up to the "spirit" of the agreement it signed in 2015.

President Donald Trump is delivering a speech on the Iran nuclear accord, which he has repeatedly denounced as the worst deal in American history.

President Donald Trump has predicted "millions and millions of people" will benefit from his action to unwind the health care law.

The United States is pulling out of Unesco after repeated criticism of resolutions by the UN cultural agency that Washington sees as anti-Israel.

President Donald Trump says he will "very shortly" announce his decision on US participation in the landmark 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.

President Donald Trump has renewed his feud with NBC News, and even raised the possibility of challenging broadcasting licences for outlets.

President Donald Trump is set to make a scaled-down visit to Britain next year, it has been reported.

President Donald Trump is taking his tax plan campaign on the road with a pitch directed at US lorry drivers.