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The New York Times reports that two of the prosecutors leading the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation into former President Donald Trump and his business practices abruptly resigned on Wednesday.

Their resignations come amid a month-long pause in their presentation of evidence to a grand jury, and the future of the high-stakes inquiry has now been thrown into serious doubt.

The paper cites people with knowledge of the matter.

Carey Dunne and Mark Pomerantz both submitted their resignations after the new Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, indicated to them that he had doubts about moving forward with a case against Mr Trump, the sources said.

Mr Pomerantz confirmed to the Times in a brief interview that he had resigned, but declined to elaborate. Mr Dunne declined to comment.

“And he’s [Vladimir Putin] gonna go in and be a peacekeeper. That’s the strongest peace force … We could use that on our southern border,” Mr Trump said. “There were more army tanks than I’ve ever seen. They’re gonna keep peace all right.”

Justin Vallejo has the story.

The US believes the Russian military has 80 per cent of troops assembled around Ukraine in an attack position to launch an invasion at any time.

Justin Vallejo reports.

Florida’s House of Representatives passed the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill and set the much-maligned law up for a final vote despite widespread disapproval among voters.

As lawmakers passed a final version of the bill on Tuesday, a poll showed around a third of voters (34 per cent) supporting the legislation “somewhat or strongly”.

Gino Spocchia reports.

Read a transcript of Putin’s most recent speech and the reality of the situation is made pretty clear, writes Nathan McDermott.

Andrew Naughtie reports.

Even after a chaotic launch beset with errors and public relations disasters, Donald Trump’s new “free speech” social media platform Truth Social appears to be providing a major financial boost for its backers.

According to Reuters, shares in the platform’s main acquisition company, Digital World Acquisition Corp, have risen by a striking 14 per cent on the back of the app’s 170,000-odd downloads. The company’s share price has hit levels not seen since last October.

Andrew Naughtie has the story.

Donald Trump issued an early-morning statement on Wednesday which crowed that the Russian president was playing his US counterpart “like a drum”, seemingly ignoring the criticism he has faced over the last day regarding his overly-complimentary view of Mr Putin.

“Putin is playing Biden like a drum. It is not a pretty thing to watch!” said the former president in one of his tweet-like statements issued by his office.

John Bowden has the story.

Anti-Trump Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger has hit out at the former president’s “love” for Russian President Vladimir Putin, and his outrageous suggestion that the US should follow Russia’s example in Ukraine by seizing parts of Mexico.

Posting an article from The Hill, the Illinois lawmaker tweeted: “Trump is a sick man. For us to do the same on Southern Border (as he suggests) we would have to invade Mexico and declare it ours today. But he loves him some Putin.”

While he has yet to announce a re-election campaign, Donald Trump has many times claimed to be in pole position to win re-election in 2024 – and in an interview yesterday, he offered a prediction that Joe Biden won’t even stand for a second term himself.

“I don’t think he’s going to run, or I don’t think he’s — you know, he could run and maybe somebody would run against him, and that’s very rare, that something like that would happen,” said Mr Trump. “I think the net result is so bad, I just don’t think he can do it.”

Mr Biden has repeatedly insisted that he intends to run for a second term. His age has frequently been raised as a potential barrier, but Mr Trump is only a few years younger.

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