Porn Star, Stormy Daniels

Adult-film star Stormy Daniels has filed a court motion for US President Donald Trump to testify about her claim that they had a relationship.

Her lawyer wants sworn testimony from Mr Trump about a "hush" agreement the actress says she signed.

The attorney, Michael Avenatti, is also seeking a legal interview with the president's lawyer.

H.R. McMaster and Trump

National security adviser H.R. McMaster has resigned and will be replaced by former US ambassador and Fox News analyst John Bolton, President Donald Trump announced in a tweet on Thursday.

"I pleased to announce that, effective 4/9/18, @AmbJohnBolton will be my new National Security Advisor. I am very thankful for the service of General H.R. McMaster who has done an outstanding job & will always remain my friend. There will be an official contact handover on 4/19."

"The two have been discussing this for some time. The timeline was expedited as they both felt it was important to have the new team in place, instead of constant speculation," a White House official said. "This was not related to any one moment or incident, rather it was the result of ongoing conversations between the two."

President Donald Trump signed an executive memorandum on Thursday that would impose about $60 billion in retaliatory tariffs on Chinese imports. "This is the first of many" trade actions, Trump said as he signed the memo. The new measures are designed to penalize China for trade practices that the Trump administration says involve stealing American companies' intellectual property.

Gen John Nicholson

The head of US forces in Afghanistan has claimed that Russia is supporting and even supplying arms to the Taliban

In an exclusive interview with BBC, Gen John Nicholson said he'd seen "destabilising activity by the Russians."

He said Russian weapons were smuggled across the Tajik border to the Taliban, but could not say in what quantity. Russia has denied such US allegations in the past, citing a lack of evidence.

But the new claims come at a sensitive time in Russia's ties with Nato powers.

US President Donald Trump’s lead attorney of his legal team, John Dowd, resigned Thursday amid growing pressure on the White House from the Russia investigation of special counsel Robert Mueller. Dowd quit days after Trump directly attacked Mueller’s investigation as a “witch hunt,” raising questions about whether the president was interfering with the probe.

President Donald Trump was infuriated after it quickly leaked that he had been directly instructed by his national security advisers in briefing materials not to congratulate Russian President Vladimir Putin on his recent election victory during their call Tuesday morning, a source familiar with the President's thinking said.

Trump was fuming Tuesday night, asking his allies and outside advisers who they thought had leaked the information, noting that only a small group of staffers have access to those materials and would have known what guidance was included for the Putin call, the source said.