US Attorney General William Barr has refused to testify to the Democratic-led House Judiciary Committee on his handling of the Russia inquiry. Mr Barr had previously objected to a plan for lawyers to ask questions at Thursday’s hearing. Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler accused the White House of a “complete stonewalling of Congress”. The standoff raises the prospect that Mr Barr, …

President Donald Trump says his enemies who did “evil” and “treasonous things” will be under scrutiny after he was absolved of colluding with Russia. Speaking in the Oval Office, he said no other president should have to be investigated over “a false narrative”. He spoke a day after the attorney general released a summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s completed …