United States President Donald Trump’s administration has again blocked The Associated Press from attending a White House event amid a dispute over the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico, the news organisation has said. The AP said on Thursday that the White House prevented one of its reporters from attending Trump’s news conference with visiting…

Firefighters watch as the Palisades Fire burns at the Mandeville Canyon, a neighbourhood of Los Angeles, California. [Ringo Chiu/Reuters]

United States President Donald Trump has cancelled security protections for Mike Pompeo, Brian Hook and John Bolton, hawkish foreign policy advisers who served during his first term in office. The New York Times broke the story on Thursday about Trump revoking protection for Pompeo, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Recommended Stories…

United States President Donald Trump has reiterated baseless claims that outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is seeking to use US tariffs against Canada to extend his time in office, as a rift widens between the two countries. In a social media post on Thursday, Trump said he believed Trudeau “is using the Tariff problem, which…

Elon Musk is being sued by the securities regulator in the United States for allegedly failing to promptly disclose his stake in Twitter before he bought the social media platform. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said on Tuesday that Musk failed to disclose within the required 10-day period that he acquired more than…

United States stocks are at their lowest level since President Donald Trump was sworn in two weeks ago, and other global financial markets slumped after he ordered tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China while world leaders responded to his threats to expand tariffs to the European Union as well. The benchmark S&P 500 on Monday…