The Alaska senator, who helped deal Trump’s first big legislative setback, believes there can be only so much fear that Americans can handle

Late one night about six months into Donald Trump’s first term, John McCain stepped on to the Senate floor and with a dramatic thumbs-down gesture dealt the president his first major legislative setback by defeating an attempt by his fellow Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

It was the last major political effort of the Arizona senator, who would die the following year from brain cancer, but his no vote would not have been effective had he not been joined by fellow Republicans Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska – who gives that incident, and many other brushes with Trump, a prominent place in Far from Home, the memoir she released on Tuesday.

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Labour MPs' challenge over benefits cuts is perhaps the gravest crisis in the PM's time in office so far.

Dana Garnett, 61, a former contract specialist for the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), was found guilty today by a federal jury for her role in a  conspiracy to commit bribery and wire fraud that illegally steered lucrative DCPS business to local vendors while also agreeing to defraud DCPS by accepting significantly fewer quantities of supplies than had been ordered by DCPS. In exchange, the local vendors paid kickbacks and bribes to Garnett for years. Garnett faces 15 years in prison as a result of the conviction.

 Dana Garnett, 61, a former contract specialist for the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), was found guilty today by a federal jury for her role in a  conspiracy to commit bribery and wire fraud that illegally steered lucrative DCPS business to local vendors while also agreeing to defraud DCPS by accepting significantly fewer quantities of supplies than had been ordered by DCPS. In exchange, the local vendors paid kickbacks and bribes to Garnett for years. Garnett faces 15 years in prison as a result of the conviction.

• All-Star guard injured during Pacers’ loss to Thunder

• How Haliburton excelled in this year’s playoffs

The Indiana Pacers confirmed on Monday that their star guard Tyrese Haliburton tore his right achilles tendon in Sunday night’s NBA finals Game 7 loss to Oklahoma City.

The All-NBA guard was helped off the court and immediately taken to the locker room in obvious pain during the first quarter. He was later officially diagnosed with the injury the next day.

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The US president expressed his frustration at the conduct of the two nations.

The British and Irish Lions players have rallied around their foreign-born team-mates, after Australia coach Joe Schmidt highlighted the ancestry of some of the tourists' squad.