Democratic senator Mark Kelly has said he refuses to be intimidated after US president Donald Trump accused a group of Democrats of “seditious behaviour punishable by death” in a series of social media posts. Kelly, one of several Democrats who released a message to military and intelligence personnel that they are not obligated to follow…

After 43 days, President Trump signed a funding bill to reopen the U.S. government, ending the longest federal shutdown in history, which had furloughed around 900,000 federal employees. [Read More…]

A Tennessee judge on Monday blocked the use of the National Guard in Memphis under a crime-fighting operation by President Donald Trump but also put the order on hold, giving the government five days to appeal. Davidson County Chancellor Patricia Head Moskal’s decision sides with Democratic state and local officials who sued, contending that Republican…

This brings our real-time chronicle of the second Trump administration to a close for the day. We will be back at it on Friday. Here are the latest development,Donald Trump spent much of the day out of public view, holding only one event, and taking no questions from reporters eager to ask him about emails…