Donald Trump has fired his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, and announced his intention to replace him with the CIA director, Mike Pompeo. Trump announced the shake-up in a tweet, adding that Gina Haspel, currently Pompeo’s deputy, would become the CIA’s first female director. Tillerson had recently predicted he would stay in office at least until the end of 2018

Trump fires Tillerson: president swings axe after series of policy clashes