Trump charged with bid to overturn 2020 election

Donald Trump is facing fresh criminal charges, this time in connection with his attempts to cling to power after losing the 2020 election. Mr Trump who is again running for president denies wrongdoing.

A former attorney for the US Justice Department says polling continues to show Trump leading in the polls as republican presidential candidate but nobody is above the law.

The US government's credit rating has been downgraded.

And the American space agency, NASA, has picked up what's being called a "heartbeat" signal from a probe it had lost contact with, billions of kilometres from Earth.