Though Walter Scott wrote his famous line — “O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!” — more than 200 years before Washington’s “biggest ever” presidential inauguration, it is an appropriate prism through which to view anything coming from today’s American administration.

President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation to scale back two sprawling national monuments in Utah, pledging to "reverse federal overreach and restore the rights of this land to your citizens".

US President Donald Trump has said he is delaying a new policy allowing trophies of African elephants shot for sport to be imported until he can review "all conservation facts".

Witnesses said he grabbed Ben Jacobs and slammed him to the ground after being asked about the Republican health care bill.

A candidate in a US congressional election has been charged with misdemeanor assault for grabbing a reporter by the neck and throwing him to the ground.