A National Security Council spokesman said in a statement the reported chat "appears to be authentic"

The Vances met as students, when they joined a discussion group on “social decline in white America”.

Some Democrats have openly criticised the Senate Minority Leader as the party debates how to oppose Trump.

The US president is expected to order a shutdown of the department, which he has already cut back.

Mass firings at the Office for Civil rights made one mother fear her disabled son's case will vanish

President Trump claims "many" of Biden's pardons are void because they were signed automatically and not by hand.

The US Secretary of State called the ambassador a "race-baiting politician who hates America".

The passage of the funding bill came hours before a shutdown, with Democrats under fierce pressure to oppose the measure.