Trump speech on affordability ramps up bigotry and false statements – as it happened

In Pennsylvania, US president attacks Ilhan Omar and Jasmine Crockett and makes multiple false claims, including that prices are way down'. This blog is now closed.

A federal judge in New York has granted the justice department's request to unseal grand jury documents in the sex-trafficking case against Ghislaine Maxwell -the companion and accomplice of the late sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein. It comes after the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which Donald Trump signed last month.

The legislation requires the Department of Justice to release the full tranche of records related to disgraced financier, in a searchable format by 19 December.