Josh Gerstein

President Donald Trump's election team has lost or withdrawn at least 30 lawsuits in its attempt to flip, or disrupt, his loss to Joe Biden in the US Presidential Election.

In the latest blow to that… Audio

Donald Trump has still not conceeded in the US presidential election, despite Joe Biden being declared the winner.

He is claiming the election was stolen for him, despite no evidence of this. Josh… Audio

Polling booths across the US will close on Wednesday (NZ time) and officials will begin frantically counting votes for Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

State officials across the country are warning that… Audio

Polls from the US show that Joe Biden narrowly triumphed over Donald Trump in the first presidential debate.

But the battle of harsh words and hysteria left most viewers annoyed.

Josh Gerstein is a… Audio

Donald Trump and Joe Biden will face off in the first televised election debate later today.

With no studio audiences, voters around the United States will be tuning in - and many are yet to make up… Audio

In an article published in the Guardian yesterday, well known documentary maker Michael Moore has again predicted that President Trump will win in the upcoming US election.

In 2016, he successfully… Audio

President Trump has hinted he will move to make impeachments harder to pursue in his first remarks since being acquitted of impeachment.

Speaking at a national prayer breakfast a short time ago Trump… Audio

It's been described as a "serious, solemn and historic day" in the United States as the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump has officially begun.

The US Senate minority leader, Chuck… Audio

A man who spent more than 16 years in a US Prison for his part in murdering tourists at a gorilla watching saunctuary, has been deported to Australia.

Francois Karake, 55, was released from an… Audio

The first public hearings in Donald Trump's impeachment inquiry are under way in Washington.

The president is accused of improperly seeking help from Ukraine to boost his chances of re-election next… Audio

Over to the US where the fall-out from special counsel Robert Mueller's evidence against US President Donald Trump continues.

The former FBI director Robert Mueller spent two years probing alleged… Audio

It's more than 100 days since the last White House press briefing. Is this the end of a 90-year-old institution?  Audio

Josh Gerstein is senior legal affairs contributor for Politico. This week he has reported on the case of Leonidas Bimenyimana and Gregoire Nyaminani, two Rwandan men who, along with a third, Francois… Audio

US president Donald Trump has taken to Twitter overnight to reject claims his anti-Islamic rhetoric helped fuel the Christchurch mosque attacks. The accused gunman Brenton Tarrant had praised Mr Trump… Audio

In a live televised address, the US President set out new plans on his Mexican wall project to try to end a partial government shutdown lasting more than four weeks. One of Donald Trump's… Audio

Donald Trump has accused China of interfering in the upcoming United States mid-term elections with the aim of damaging him politically. The US president made the accusation while he was chairing a… Audio

Now to the midterm elections in the US and the strange story of Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar. Gosar is a Republican from the party's most conservative wing. He is standing for re-election in… Audio

Lawmakers from both sides of the US political divide have called for a delay in the vote on the nominee for the powerful Supreme Court. It follows an allegation of sexual assault in the 1980s against… Audio