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DEMOCRACY is under attack. It is being challenged by the likes of Donald Trump and his fascist supporters and by authoritarians the world...

US president Donald Trump has been permanently suspended from Twitter “due to the risk of further incitement of violence”, the social media...

Scots who have recently moved to the United States, or lived there for decades talk about the fallout of this week's momentous events in...

THE two images that stick in my mind from last Wednesday night’s invasion of the Capitol are the grinning idiot carrying a looted lectern...

AMID the flurry of responses in the US press these past days to the unprecedented scenes in the Capitol, some lines from one article caug...

ONE of the Trump supporters who died during Wednesday’s siege at the US Capitol was a recovering drug addict who wanted to become a sobri...

SO, even when he finally conceded defeat and threw the Capitol Hill rioters he incited under the bus, Donald Trump did it on Twitter.

ON Wednesday, the 45th US President attempted to destroy the structural foundations of American democracy and failed.

A passenger plane carrying more than 50 people has gone missing after take-off from the Indonesian capital Jakarta.

CONSUMERS will bear the cost of the trouble facing traders following the imposition of Brexit red tape, a senior retail chief has warned....

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has been permanently suspended from Twitter “due to the risk of further incitement of violence”, the social med...

DONALD Trump yesterday confirmed he will snub Joe Biden’s inauguration as US president later this month, yet again fuelling speculation t...

THE fragility of democracy has been made brutally clear by the rioters in the US Capitol who were encouraged and praised by outgoing pres...

I WANT to say I hope Christmas and New Year was as enjoyable for you and yours as can be during these hard times. We are back in lockdown...

NICOLA Sturgeon will present the case for independence at an international event organised by a major European media outlet later this mo...

JOE Biden has said that America's lack of a House of Lords is what "sets this nation apart".

WHEN the campaign to leave the EU began to get serious, it just so happened to co-incide with news that the EU was enacting legislation t...

I READ Tuesday’s letters page, and have to agree with regular contributor, the one and only Winifred McCartney.

THE mob that stormed the US Congress building was an attempted fascist coup. It was organised, instigated and encouraged by Donald Trump....

A POLICE officer has died following the riots in the US Capitol on Wednesday.

IT’S hard to know where to start in response to events in the US. The scenes at the Capitol in Washington DC should have shocked us, of c...

WHAT’S THE STORY?

A FORMER Scottish Parliament political adviser is set for a key role in incoming US president Joe Biden’s administration as National S...

THE Home Secretary is coming under increasing pressure to ban Donald Trump from entering the UK, following Wednesday’s attack on the Capi...

THE National has today been featured alongside publications from around the world in a CNN article showcasing global reactions to the rio...