Trump news: President launches attack on UK ambassador and Theresa May, as connections to Jeffrey Epstein stir controversy

Bernie Sanders has been on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, talking immigration and diversity.

Here's a timely update on his campaign and what he needs to do to stay the course.

House Financial Services committee chair Maxine Waters has form when it comes to calling out President Trump and here's another beauty.

In May, angered by his support for Kim Jong-un when he attacked Joe Biden, Waters called the president a "lying, crooked, tax evader, porn star fornicator [who] should take his ridiculous self home, resign, and free us of what we will have to do to impeach him and throw him out of office."

An investigation has been launched into whether one of the top executives on Donald Trump’s inauguration committee used his role to secure foreign business deals, according to a new report. 

Federal prosecutors are probing Elliot Broidy, the vice chair of the president’s 2017 inaugural committee, for possibly violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a 1977 law barring US citizens from conducting bribes with foreign officials.

Documents obtained by the Associated Press show that a federal grand jury in New York are reportedly looking into whether Mr Broidy exploited his access to the future president “to drum up business deals with foreign leaders.”

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The president’s schedule for the day largely centres around his environmental speech at 3:30pm EST. 

Donald Trump will participate in a credentialing ceremony for newly appointed ambassadors to Washington at 11:30am, before receiving his intelligence briefing at 12:00pm. He will then have lunch with the vice president at 12:45pm, his final listed activity before thew 3:30pm speech. 

Mr Trump will later attend a dinner hosted by the Secretary of the Treasury to honour the Amir of the State of Qatar at the US Department of the Treasury at 7:20pm. 

  ↵Donald Trump has taken a rare swipe at Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, complaining about the channel’s weekend coverage.

In a series of tweets attacking some of his favourite targets in the news media, including The New York Times, CNN and NBC, the US president also turned his ire on Fox News, the one news organisation he has repeatedly singled out for praise.

Mr Trump wrote: “Watching @FoxNews weekend anchors is worse than watching low ratings Fake News @CNN, or [NBC chief news presenter] Lyin’ Brian Williams.”

  ↵Here's more on how Donald Trump seemingly revoked an invitation to the US Women's Soccer team after their historic victory in the World Cup: 

Jeffrey Epstein is facing sex trafficking and conspiracy charges over accusations he exploited numerous underage women and maintained a network of enablers who allowed the abuse to carry on for years. 

Mr Epstein, a politically-connected billionaire financier and onetime associate to the likes of Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, was arrested over the weekend after returning to the US on his private jet from a trip to Paris. Prosecutors suspect him of a list of sex crimes, including the recruitment of underage girls for sexual activity, paying minors for massages and later molesting them, as well as other crimes that allegedly took place in his New York and Florida homes. 

He was scheduled to appear in a Manhattan federal court on Monday over the allegations dating back to the early 2000s. Mr Epstein previously avoided a major prison sentence after pleading guilty to state prostitution charges nearly 11 years ago. He skirted most of his 13-month sentence with the help of a work-release program that allowed Mr Epstein to leave the jail facilities almost every day.

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Here's my story into the new investigation against Elliott Broidy:

And here is The Independent's Chris Stevenson on Donald Trump's former associate Jeffrey Epstein and the new sex crime charges against him:

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed a new bill allowing Congress to access state tax returns for any public official that has been requested by “congressional tax-related committees.”

The committees must cite “specified and legitimate legislative purpose” in their requests, which the US House of Representatives has done in its request for Donald Trump’s tax returns.