The first official press briefing by Donald Trump’s administration will be held later amid a series of attacks on the media by senior White House figures.

A fifth person has died following a shooting at a US shopping mall 60 miles north of Seattle.

Jon Stewart, who turned his biting and free-wheeling humour into an unlikely source of news and analysis to host The Daily Show, will leave this year.

A man who set himself on fire in the National Mall in Washington has died of his injuries, police said.