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US President Donald Trump has mocked a political rival as 'Pocahontas', while welcoming Native Americans veterans to the White House.

The judge and Democratic candidate for governor boasted of having been "sexually intimate" with "approximately 50 very attractive females".

Democrats look set to hold Virginia's governorship after an ugly race, which has been seen as a political cardiogram of the US a year after President Trump's election.

Five of the victims of the Islamic State-inspired truck attack in New York were a group of friends from Argentina, celebrating the 30th anniversary of their graduation.

The US President has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to "step up" vetting measures, after a deadly truck attack in New York. Video

The driver of a truck who killed at least eight people on a cycle path in New York was an immigrant who settled in Florida in 2010, according to US media.

US President Donald Trump has played down the importance of an ex-campaign aide indicted in the Russia inquiry.

Facebook estimates 126 million people in the US may have seen one of 80,000 Russia-linked posts, while Twitter says Russia-linked automated accounts sent 1.4m tweets about the 2016 election.

US President Donald Trump has launched a Twitter tirade about the "guilt" of Hillary Clinton and the opposition Democratic Party.

Two women say they thought they would die until being rescued after nearly five months drifting helplessly across the Pacific.

A US federal grand jury has approved the first charges in the investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election, CNN has reported.

More than 2800 files about US president John F Kennedy's assassination have been released at the order of Donald Trump, but he has yielded to FBI and CIA pressure to hold back some information.

The United States National Safety Council says enforcement and education will be crucial now that Honolulu's "distracted walking" law has come into force.

Air New Zealand is asking passengers flying to the US to get to the airport three hours earlier because of new security measures.

Tennessee Senator Bob Corker has unleashed a blistering attack on US President Donald Trump, calling the president "utterly untruthful".

CIA director Mike Pompeo is warning that North Korea is on the cusp of being able to hit the US with a nuclear missile.

Global powers, including key US allies, have said they will stand by the Iran nuclear deal which US President Donald Trump has threatened to tear apart.

In a move undermining Obamacare after US Republicans failed to repeal it, US President Donald Trump has signed an order making it easier for Americans to buy bare-bones health insurance.

Israel says it will join the US in pulling out of the UN's cultural organisation after US officials cited "anti-Israel bias".