How a pop star and a former gossip reporter are tangled up with the president’s son  

President says he only heard of Donald Jr’s meeting with Moscow lawyer in recent days

US president’s son thought he was meeting a representative of the ‘crown prosecutor’

Agalarov says emails ‘made up’ while Veselnitskaya tells FT allegations are ‘nonsense’

‘I love it’, son responded when told Moscow lawyer had detrimental material on rival

Shifting accounts of effort to find damaging information on Clinton fuel concern

Natalia Veselnitskaya saw chance to roll back US sanctions and help a client

Aides Kushner and Manafort also attended session during presidential campaign

Backlash in US over president’s acceptance of denial of election hacking

US president attacks special counsel’s expanded investigation as ‘witch hunt’

Bipartisan move underscores anger over cyber attacks during the 2016 presidential race

Deputy attorney-general says no reason to fire Mueller despite attacks on independence

US attorney-general says allegations he knew of election meddling ‘appalling and detestable lie’

Former head of US National Intelligence condemns ‘assault’ on American institutions

NSA document suggests Kremlin attempted to tamper with electronic vote tallying

Probe into links between Trump campaign and Moscow reaches US president’s son-in-law

Brennan personally warned head of FSB to end its meddling in presidential campaign

Senators Richard Burr and Mark Warner resurrect long-forgotten bipartisanship

Robert Mueller appointed after concerns about political interference in DoJ inquiry

Trump decries appointment of Mueller as ‘greatest witch hunt’ in US history

House and Senate committees request Comey memos and any White House tapes

Democrats accuse president of obstructing efforts to ‘get at the truth’ about Russia

President calls investigations into election interference a ‘witch hunt’

Justice department accused of trying to block testimony by Obama appointee