Trump doubles down on attacks against Manhattan prosecutor.

Donald Trump has vowed to escalate attacks against the Manhattan prosecutor who revived the criminal prosecution into hush money payments made to the adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016 now he has been indicted by a grand jury. Russian police have arrested a woman suspected of delivering a bomb that killed a prominent pro-war Russian military blogger in central St Petersburg. Finland’s prime minister, Sanna Marin, has lost her battle to stay in power after her centre-left Social Democratic party (SDP) was narrowly beaten into third place in a cliffhanger election by its conservative and far-right rivals. Oil prices have surged to $86 a barrel after the world’s largest producers announced a surprise cut in production, a move that is likely to prompt fresh tensions with the US as western governments try to get a grip on inflation. The author Judy Blume says a rise in intolerance in the US has led to a “much worse” epidemic of book banning than she experienced in the 1980s.