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Mueller report 'ridiculous' but should be released: Trump
President Donald Trump says it's "ridiculous" that special counsel Robert Mueller is writing a report to summarise his findings - but says he's looking forward to seeing what it says.
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Trump to host Israel's Netanyahu next week, says White House
US President Donald Trump will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House next Monday and Tuesday, the White House said.
Trump's White House
Trump calls top aide Kellyanne Conway's spouse 'husband from hell' in Twitter brawl
US President Donald Trump, not one to shy away from a Twitter fight, intensified an online battle with the husband of senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway.
Extreme weather
Fresh water trucked in, crops destroyed as floodwaters swamp US midwest
In all, Nebraska Farm Bureau President Steve Nelson estimated $565 million of crop losses from fields left unplanted or planted late and up to $706 million in livestock losses due to the flooding.
- by Margery Beck
Trump's White House
Trump buddies up with Bolsonaro, the 'Trump of the Tropics'
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro ran an unabashedly pro-Trump, pro-US campaign last year. It seems to have paid off on his first official trip to Washington.
- by Peter Prengaman
University
'A role model for all of us': retired professor first woman to receive top mathematics prize
Karen Uhlenbeck is most known for her 1980s work on the "calculus of variations", which helps explain how geometric objects such as soap films and soap bubbles achieve shapes that minimise energy.
- by Mary Huber
Facebook agrees to overhaul of paid advertising in United States
Complaints over ads-based discrimination have dogged the social-media company since 2016, but Facebook has now agreed to change its paid-advertising platform.
- by Katie Paul
Crime
Students tied to admissions scam could face expulsion, says university
Yale, UCLA, and the University of Texas said any students found to have misrepresented any part of their applications may have their admission rescinded.
- by Gabriella Borter
Republican sues Twitter, users for $US250m defamation and negligence
Devin Nunes has accused the online giant of censoring critics.
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US votes 2020
Beto O'Rourke reveals the value of political charisma: $US6.1 million
Beto O'Rourke raised US$6 million in a day without having a notable policy idea, a substantial record of achievement or a compelling personal story.
- by Matthew Knott
US votes 2020
Democrat O'Rourke's presidential bid draws $8.6m in first 24 hours
The former three-term Texas congressman's haul put him at the top of a Democratic pack of more than a dozen candidates so far.
- by Ginger Gibson