Several US states are expanding the offences to which capital punishment can apply, and the methods by which people can be executed. But broadly, the death penalty is in recession.

Farmers have been one of the US president’s most loyal constituencies. But now they are feeling the pinch, and are poised to deliver his party a harsh reality check.

One of the US president’s top political foes has now been charged with leaking national defence information to a reporter in 2016 – accusations he denies.

On Sunday, the president admired Nicki Minaj’s bottom and disparaged Norway. But his remarks about Democrat Abdul El-Sayed were more sinister.