Witnesses said roads around the embassy were closed to traffic and armed police officers and the fire service were at the scene in Nine Elms.

Passengers have been left in the dark about the fate of their flights after the major airport was suddenly evacuated this morning - with police and a bomb squad called to the scene

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says "the Trump-Vance transition team has not yet entered into the agreements with the White House and the General Service Administration."

           Dozens of Trump supporters in Erie, Pennsylvania, staged a protest at a city council meeting after the president compared MAGA hats to Ku Klux Klan hoods.

Former President John F. Kennedy acted out his own assassination in a home movie just two months before he would be shot dead by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas.

Sebastian Gorka will serve as Donald Trump's senior director for counterterrorism. Gorka is a conservative commentator who spent less than a year in Trump's first White House term.