A lawyer for White House adviser Jared Kushner has pushed back after a Senate committee said he had not been fully forthcoming in its probe into Russian election interference.

The top US Republican and Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee have said President Donald Trump's son-in-law has not been fully forthcoming with the panel's probe into Russian election interference.

Senior Republicans are open to considering legislation banning "bump stocks" like the gunman in Las Vegas apparently used to effectively convert semi-automatic rifles into fully automated weapons.

US President Donald Trump has insisted there is no chaos at the White House, even as his new chief of staff enters a West Wing battered by crisis.

Donald Trump's former campaign chairman has met Senate investigators, giving his recollection of a Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer and agreeing to turn over contemporaneous notes of the gathering last year, sources said.

Congressional investigators plan to question the former chairman of the Trump campaign and will subpoena him if necessary, the Senate Judiciary Committee panel's chairman has said.

The special counsel appointed to investigate Russian influence in the 2016 US presidential campaign is now examining whether Donald Trump tried to obstruct justice, according to a report.

The Flynn investigation was part of a broader probe into Russian interference in last year's presidential election.

Furious Donald Trump has accused the FBI of impropriety after the bureau cleared US presidential rival Hillary Clinton of criminal wrongdoing in a new email probe, lifting a cloud hanging over the Democrat as America goes to the polls on Tuesday.

US authorities could soon be snooping on social media posts from would-be immigrants in a new effort to close security gaps in the country's visa system.

Al Qaeda’s Yemen offshoot could bring down a transatlantic passenger plane at any time, a new book by a former CIA leader has warned.

“Enhanced interrogation” techniques used by the CIA on militants detained in secret prisons were ineffective and never produced information which led to the disruption of imminent terrorist plots, a declassified report by the US Senate Intelligence Committee found.

Following her recent high-profile campaign blitz during the midterm elections, talk of Michelle Obama running for the US Senate is gaining momentum on Capitol Hill, writes Bette Browne

A damning US Senate report concluded that the CIA misled Congress and the American public by downplaying the severity of its interrogations and overstating intelligence gleaned from the sessions, The Washington Post said.

The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee accused the CIA of criminal activity in improperly searching a computer network set up for lawmakers investigating allegations that the agency used torture in terror investigations during the Bush administration.

The American defence contractor who says he leaked information on classified US surveillance programmes could benefit from a quirk in Hong Kong law that would ensure a lengthy battle to deport him.

US officials from across the political spectrum are scrambling to explain reports in The Guardian and Washington Post of unprecedented government collection of the phone records of Americans and the tracking of the Google, Facebook, and Skype activities of Americans and non-Americans worldwide.

The White House’s nominee for CIA chief has said he does not regret advising against a strike targeting Osama bin Laden in 1998, a few months before the bombings of two US embassies in Africa.

America’s pro-gun lobby has claimed any attempt to ban powerful assault weapons will fail in Congress.

Top US politicians have accused the CIA of misleading the makers of the Osama bin Laden raid film 'Zero Dark Thirty' by allegedly telling them that harsh interrogation methods helped track down the terrorist mastermind.

US politicians have stepped back from the fiscal cliff which many feared could prompt a new economic downturn.

Prominent gun rights advocates in the US government are now calling for a national discussion about curbing gun violence - signalling that the Connecticut primary school massacre could be a tipping point in a debate dormant for years.

US president Barack Obama has said he has no evidence the scandal that ended David Petraeus’s career has had a negative impact on US national security.

The sex scandal that led to the resignation of CIA director David Petraeus has widened, with the top US commander in Afghanistan under investigation for alleged “inappropriate communications” with a woman who is said to have received threatening emails from General Petraeus’ former lover.

Former CIA boss David Petraeus is “devastated” after being forced to resign over his affair with a younger woman, one of his former aides has said.

Members of the US Congress are demanding more details about the FBI investigation that unmasked an extramarital affair between ex-CIA director David Petraeus and his biographer.

The CIA has thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaida’s affiliate in Yemen to destroy a US-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden.

US OFFICIALS were concerned that Pakistan could jeopardise the Osama bin Laden operation and “might alert the targets,” CIA director Leon Panetta admitted yesterday.

The Nigerian accused of the Christmas Day airline bomb attack has been co-operating with investigators and providing fresh intelligence in multiple terrorism investigations, senior US sources said.

EBay will not allow tickets for president-elect Barack Obama’s swearing-in ceremony to be sold on its websites.

Democrats and human rights advocates criticised US president George Bush’s veto of a Bill that would have banned the CIA from using simulated drowning and other controversial interrogation methods to gain information from suspected terrorists.

US president George Bush said today that he vetoed legislation that would have banned the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods such as waterboarding to break suspected terrorists because it would end practices that have prevented attacks.

US government offices received letters containing a photo of New York City’s Times Square military recruiting office before it was bombed. The words “We Did It," were written on the card.

Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell said he favours immediately closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison and moving its detainees to US facilities.

KEY senators in both US parties announced agreement with the White House yesterday on an immigration overhaul that would grant quick legal status to millions of illegal immigrants already in the US and fortify the border.

President George Bush and other US officials have been working vigorously through diplomatic channels to try to encourage North Korea to abide by its self- imposed moratorium on missile testing and return to talks aimed at eliminating its nuclear program, Bush’s spokesman said today.

The US Senate Judiciary Committee has approved sweeping election-year immigration legislation that would clear the way for 11 million illegal aliens to seek US citizenship without having to leave the country first.

US PRESIDENT George W Bush is gearing up for a battle to get his conservative nominee into the Supreme Court.

THE US senate has voted to make it a separate offence to harm a foetus during a violent crime, in a victory for those seeking to expand legal rights of the unborn.