Donald Trump has claimed he will be impeached if the Republicans lose the midterm elections in November.
The US president, campaigning in South Carolina, warned supporters that they would “lose everything” if Democrats took control of Congress for his final two years in office.
On Friday, Mr Trump described the potential outcome of the elections in unusually stark language as he faced the prospect of being unable to force through legislation or depend on a compliant Congress.
Donald Trump secretly swapped planes as he left a Nato summit in Turkey last month, as part of an elaborate ruse in response to a possible Iranian threat, US media report.
The US president boarded Air Force One in view of television cameras before being transported to a military aircraft with the help of a catering truck, the Washington Post said. Journalists and some White House staff on board did not know he had been smuggled out.
Donald Trump’s lawyers will try to force the head of BBC News to testify as part of the US president’s $10bn (£7.5bn) defamation lawsuit against the broadcaster.
Jonathan Munro, the interim chief executive of BBC News and Current Affairs, will be deposed about claims the programme defamed the US president by misleadingly editing together sections of a speech the US president made before the Jan 6 riots.
If Mr Munro does not cooperate voluntarily, Mr Trump’s lawyers could instead ask the US court to issue a formal request from the High Court in London, The Telegraph understands.
Tim Davie, the former director general who resigned over the scandal, is also expected to be asked to testify.
Diary entries released by a Republican senator in an attempt to damage Anthony Fauci also show the former top US government science adviser’s growing disillusionment with Donald Trump in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, branding the president “rambling”, “crazy”, “desperate”, “bumbling”, “incompetent”, “an idiot”, “a true embarrassment”, “totally nuts” and “truly an obnoxious adolescent”.
Perhaps above all else, Donald Trump is a child of the cold war.
Three months before the US president was born, Winston Churchill delivered a historic speech in Fulton, Missouri, that ushered in a generations-long existential struggle between western capitalism and Soviet communism.
Lamenting the spread of Soviet communism across eastern Europe following the allied victory in the second world war, Churchill – by then no longer British prime minister – warned his audience on 5 March 1946 that “an iron curtain has descended across the continent”.
Communism not a menace? Who knew!
A “credible” Iranian threat to Air Force One forced Donald Trump to switch planes when returning from the Nato summit in Ankara earlier in July.
The president was set to fly back to the US on the new Qatari-donated Boeing 747-8, which had brought him to the Turkish capital.
However at the last minute Mr Trump was forced to use his original Air Force One jet, rather than the lavish new aircraft.
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Israel shared new intelligence with the U.S. that it said indicated a fresh Iranian plan to kill President Trump, people familiar with the matter said, a finding that would mark an escalation in the war between Washington and Iran.
Iran for years has vowed openly to retaliate against Trump for the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, who was a top general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, in the president’s first term.
Donald Trump has refiled a defamation lawsuit seeking at least $10bn in damages against the Wall Street Journal over its reporting on his alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein, after a judge threw out an earlier version over legal deficiencies.
The lawsuit is one of several the US president has brought in his personal capacity against news organisations and is part of what critics say is a wider pressure campaign against the media.
President Donald Trump shared an artificial intelligence-generated video of him assaulting Stephen Colbert and throwing him into a dumpster to celebrate the comedian’s final show.
The feud between the Republican and the late-night host has long been documented, and it appears the president is nailing the coffin – or rather the dumpster – closed.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 22, 2026
With the failed attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 25, there have been seven major attempts to assassinate President Trump since 2016.
Let us examine US presidential assassination attempts and attempt to ascertain why President Trump has been the most-targeted president in US history.
Donald Trump has issued a fresh verbal attack against Pope Leo XIV, accusing the pontiff of “endangering a lot of Catholics” because “he thinks it’s fine for Iran to have a nuclear weapon”.
The remarks come two days before Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, meets Leo at the Vatican in an effort to ease the tensions sparked by Trump’s previous broadside against the Chicago-born pontiff over his condemnation of the US-Israeli war on Iran.
Donald Trump has said the Duke of Sussex was “not speaking for the UK” when he called for the US to show “leadership” on Ukraine – comments which came days before King Charles was due to meet the president.
Speaking on a visit to Kyiv, and without mentioning Trump, Prince Harry said the US should “show that it can honour its international treaty obligations – not out of charity but out of its enduring role in global security and strategic stability”.
Asked about the remarks, Trump said: “Prince Harry? How’s he doing? How’s his wife? Please give her my regards.
“I know one thing, Prince Harry is not speaking for the UK, that’s for sure. I think I am speaking for the UK more than Prince Harry.”
Pope Leo says he was not seeking to debate Donald Trump when he criticised “tyrants” for spending billions on wars in a speech earlier this week.
The pontiff said the remarks, delivered days after a high-profile spat with the US president, had been written a fortnight earlier – “well before the president ever commented on myself”.
“And yet as it happens, it was looked at as if I was trying to debate, again, the president, which is not in my interest at all,” he told reporters aboard a flight to Angola on Saturday.
Pope Leo said the world is being “ravaged by a handful of tyrants” in his latest anti-war remarks.
Speaking in Bamenda, northwest Cameroon, on the latest leg of an 11-day African tour, the American pontiff criticised leaders who spend “billions on war” and called for a “decisive change of course”.
