President Donald Trump says he presumes missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is dead and that the US response to Saudi Arabia will likely be "very severe" but that he still wanted to get to the bottom of what exactly happened.

UN Ambassador Nikki Haley resigns, a personal familiar with the situation says, and the White House says she would appear with President Donald Trump at an event later.

A one-time classmate of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee says that Brett Kavanaugh was a habitual heavy drinker, challenging the judge's Senate testimony to the contrary.

US President Donald Trump takes his campaign to isolate Iran to the UN Security Council, accusing Tehran of spreading chaos at a meeting that laid bare divisions between Washington and key allies.

President Donald Trump piles pressure on the woman accusing his Supreme Court pick of sexual assault by insisting that she testify next week if she wants to be heard.

US President Donald Trump has ordered that $25 million earmarked for the care of Palestinians in East Jerusalem hospitals be directed elsewhere as part of a review of aid, a State Department official says.

An incendiary tell-all book by a reporter who helped bring down President Richard Nixon set off a firestorm in the White House, with its descriptions of current and former aides calling President Donald Trump an “idiot” and a “liar,” disparaging his judgment and claiming they plucked papers off his desk to prevent him from withdrawing from a pair of trade agreements.

US President Donald Trump threatened in an interview with Bloomberg News to withdraw from the World Trade Organization if "they don't shape up," in his latest criticism of the institution.

US President Donald Trump awkwardly waits over phone trying to connect with his Mexican counterpart Enrique Pena Nieto, reports CNBC.

US President Donald Trump criticised social media companies yesterday, saying without evidence that they have silenced "millions of people" in an act of censorship.

US President Donald Trump expresses sympathy for his former campaign manager Paul Manafort and says he will remain "uninvolved" after he attacked Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the US Justice Department in an interview broadcast.

US President Donald Trump says that it is "very dangerous" for social media companies like Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc to silence voices on their services.

The Trump administration is set to roll back the centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s efforts to slow global warming, the Clean Power Plan that restricts greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants.

Hundreds of US newspapers yesterday launched a coordinated defense of press freedom and a rebuke of President Donald Trump for denouncing some media organisations as enemies of the American people.

US President Donald Trump moves to penalise a sharp critic, revoking the security clearance of Obama-era CIA Director John Brennan for making what he called "a series of unfounded and outrageous allegations" about his administration.

Iran's supreme leader said yesterday there would be neither war nor negotiations with the United States, and that the country's problems were the result of government mismanagement more than renewed sanctions.

US President Donald Trump acknowledges that his son met with Russians in 2016 at Trump Tower to get information on his election opponent Hillary Clinton, saying it was "totally legal" and "done all the time in politics."

US President Donald Trump receives a letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as the two continue to discuss Pyongyang's commitment at a recent Singapore summit to rid itself of nuclear weapons, but no second meeting is currently planned, the White House says.

Iran waved away US President Donald Trump's claims that talks with the country's leaders were imminent, saying "threats, sanctions and PR stunts won't work". With Washington pulling out of the landmark 2015 nuclear deal and set to reimpose full sanctions on Iran from August 6, Tehran has responded coolly to Trump's offer on Monday to talk "any time" without preconditions.

President Donald Trump accuses Twitter Inc of restricting the visibility of prominent US Republicans, without providing evidence, and the avid user of the social media platform promises to investigate.