Donald Trump is cornered and lashing out. Just this week, he has demanded the arrest of political rivals, raged about a "coup" against him and kept firing his incessant fusillades at the "corrupt" and "fake" press.
As the impeachment investigation of US President Donald Trump intensifies and becomes more serious with his calls to involve China in helping him politically, Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has become both prime mover and chief strategist of an inquiry she struggled to avoid.
Senior US diplomats encouraged Ukraine's newly elected president to investigate Joe Biden's family in return for a high-profile visit to Washington to meet Donald Trump, newly released texts show.
Violence erupted once more across Hong Kong as defiant masked protesters rampaged and police fired tear gas, hours after the city's embattled leader invoked rarely used emergency powers to ban masks at rallies.
The number of vaping-related illnesses in the United States has topped 1,000, health officials have said.
Around one in five land-based species is traded on the global wildlife market, scientists say.
Two jurors who convicted a police officer of murdering her black neighbour said they had the victim in mind when they settled on a prison sentence of 10 years.
