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The dramatic FBI search of Donald Trump’s Florida home on Monday marked a sudden escalation of investigations into the former president, and posed new legal questions that could – in theory – alter the course of the American presidency. That’s because if the inquiry – which is reportedly linked to …

The US Justice Department is examining Donald Trump’s actions in connection with efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, say US media. Federal prosecutors have reportedly asked witnesses directly about the behaviour of the former US president. So far, they have chosen not to open a formal criminal …

Former US President Donald Trump orchestrated last year’s Capitol riot in an “attempted coup”, a congressional inquiry has heard as a prime-time hearing opened into the raid. Liz Cheney, a Republican, said former President Donald Trump had “lit the flame of this attack”. Bennie Thompson, a Democrat, said the assault …

US officials have announced plans to ease tough sanctions imposed on Cuba by former President Donald Trump. Under new measures approved by the Biden administration, restrictions on family remittances and travel to the island will be eased. The processing of US visas for Cubans will also be speeded up. State …

Billionaire and world’s richest man, Elon Musk, has stated that he will reinstate former United States president Donald Trump to Twitter. Musk is in line to take over as Twitter’s temporary CEO after recently closing a US$44 billion deal for the micro-blogging site. Musk has publicly stated his resolve to …

Former US Vice-President Mike Pence has dismissed claims by Donald Trump that he could have stopped Joe Biden becoming president last year. In his strongest rebuttal yet, he said Mr Trump was wrong to suggest he had had the right to overturn the election. Separately the Republican Party censured two …

IMAGE COPYRIGHTGETTY IMAGES Facebook Inc has suspended former US President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts for two years. He was barred indefinitely from both sites in January in the wake of posts he made on the US Capitol riots, but last month Facebook’s Oversight Board criticised the open-ended penalty. …

IMAGE COPYRIGHTGETTY IMAGES The New York attorney general’s office says it is investigating the Trump Organization “in a criminal capacity”. A spokesman for the state’s top prosecutor, Letitia James, said the inquiry into Mr Trump’s property company was “no longer purely civil”. Ms James has been scrutinising the ex-Republican president’s …

IMAGE COPYRIGHTREUTERSimage captionThe decision is said to have been influence by problems at the US-Mexico border President Joe Biden has reversed course hours after signing an order to keep the number of refugees admitted annually to the US at Trump-era levels. Mr Biden drew ire on Friday as he held …

Russian President Vladimir Putin likely authorised attempts to influence last year’s US election in favour of former President Donald Trump, intelligence officials say. Moscow spread “misleading or unsubstantiated allegations” about the eventual winner, Joe Biden, according to a US government report. But it said no foreign government had compromised the …