President Donald Trump’s administration will ask a U.S. federal appeals court on Thursday to pause a judge’s ruling lifting access restrictions the White House imposed on the Associated Press for referring to the Gulf of Mexico in its coverage.

Joe Biden has used his first speech since leaving office to criticise the Trump administration's welfare policies. The ex-US president told a conference in Chicago that the government had "taken a hatchet" to Social Security,

The refusal of Donald Trump's administration to accept that the courts have ruled that it must bring back to the U.S. Kilmar Abrego García from a maximum security El Salvador prison where he was mistakenly sent left the panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" grasping for reasons to explain their refusal to accept the loss,