Democrats have shared more pictures from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, hours before the US Justice Department’s deadline to release all the files it has on the paedophile financier.

Christian Turner is a mandarin’s mandarin. His appointment to the most glamorous posting in the UK diplomatic service is a victory for the Sir Humphreys over the politicians.

Washington’s John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is set to be renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center after the Trump-handpicked board backed the move in a vote.

Retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and his family are among seven people killed in a plane crash at a North Carolina airport.

The FBI’s deputy director, formerly a controversial podcast host who spread conspiracy theories, has said he will resign in the new year.

Ghislaine Maxwell has filed a petition asking a US federal judge to overturn her sex trafficking conviction and free her from prison, claiming “substantial new evidence”.

The anticipation had been that it would be a speech of significance.

Donald Trump’s administration has installed new plaques beneath portraits of former presidents attacking his predecessors in the US president’s typical fashion.