Trump news at a glance: Four Senate Republicans join Democrats to reject global tariffs

Despite rare opposition in the Senate, the House is unlikely to take any similar action - key US politics stories from Thursday 30 October at a glance

A (small) handful of US Senate Republicans issued a legislative rebuke to president Donald Trump's world-rattling trade tariffs in a rare alignment with their Democratic counterparts.

Four Republicans - Susan Collins of Maine, Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska - joined the opposition party, voting 51-47 on a resolution to end the base-level tariffs on more than 100 nations that the president put into place via executive order.