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Progressive principles held an iron grip on big-budget US entertainment in Donald Trump’s first term as US president. Did that serve those principles well?

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Incoming first lady will be an executive producer of the documentary released by Jeff Bezos-owned streamer

Planet Business: Ancient Rome auction update, the Murdoch ‘Succession memo’ and people/muppets who have rung the New York Stock Exchange’s opening bell

Melania won’t be spending much time in the White House, but someone else seems eager to fill the role of the president-elect’s helpmeet

A segment circulating on the internet from Russian TV featuring a 20-year-old nude photoshoot by Melania Trump was interpreted as a coded message to the future president

Republican National Convention sees marked shift within the former president’s family playing out in public

How much can the former first lady put up with from a husband who betrayed and humiliated her?

The former US first lady has not appeared on the campaign trail as her husband seeks a second term as president, nor has she commented publicly on his legal peril

First lady Jill Biden has decked the Christmas halls in a remarkably unremarkable style

Stephanie Grisham’s tell-all book chronicles the indignities of the Trump White House

First lady tells magazine that Joe Biden is proving ‘a calmer president’ than Donald Trump

In a puzzlingly uneven franchise, this one’s worthy of the price of admission

A full presidential term of hard-core branding and designer trolling are coming to an end

Outgoing president has issued invites for event taking place in Maryland

Defence officials say they are vetting members of the National Guard who have been dispatched to Washington for inauguration

After four years, a medium-sized insurrection must seem like a small price to pay

Politician among first of high-profile Republicans to break ties with the White House

Trump goading most loyal backers in Congress to stage final intervention of election results

A big online exhibition brings US presidents’ wives back into the frame of American history

It's all over bar the kicking and screaming, but who's going to make the spin-off?

President signed 1993 agreement that says he cannot live at club for more than three weeks in a year

First lady ditches blood-red trees and icy branches in favour of unimpeachable look

World leaders congratulate Joe Biden on his victory in presidential election

Pandemic continues to surge in United States with record number of infection on Friday

Polls suggest president trails Democratic rival Joe Biden in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin

Debate commission announces moderator of Thursday night’s event may mute microphones

Teenage son of Donald and Melania Trump exhibited no symptoms and has since tested negative

US president doing ‘extremely well’, says doctor, after dramatic return to White House

Doctors say the US president is not ‘out of the woods’ yet after spent three nights in hospital

Kayleigh McEnany says she ‘definitively had no knowledge’ of colleague’s diagnosis prior to press briefing

The week in detail: What the president did, where he went and who he was with

Doctor ‘extremely happy’, but source close to president strikes a more negative note

US president cancels all campaign events in coming days while next debate is in doubt

Artist replaces wooden statue set on fire near first lady’s home town with more enduring tribute

Jennifer Griffin confirmed president called dead soldiers ‘losers’

TV flair and production were to fore as Trump drew on family and voter-group testimony

American artist commissioned piece to foster a dialogue about political situation in his country

Trump disagrees with CDC on its ‘very tough & expensive guidelines for opening schools’

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff played high-profile role helping first lady’s White House move