Jared Kushner made the proposal at a meeting with the Russian ambassador to the US last December, a person familiar with the talks said.

Mr Kushner, a key White House adviser, had meetings with Moscow's ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak, and Russian banker Sergey Gorkov.

The White House has publicly released the financial disclosures of top officials in the Trump administration.

Barack Obama will disclose more today about the botched airline terrorist attack - and what else he will do to beef up security.

THE first black man elected US president is poised to name Washington lawyer Eric Holder as the nation’s first black attorney general — a historic appointment, but one with some potential political problems over a 2001 pardon.