US president Donald Trump has made unsubstantiated claims about election fraud - even as he reached out to Democratic rivals, business leaders and union chiefs in a bid to sell his policies.

With calls growing for him to quit, Bernie Sanders went to the White House for a meeting that President Barack Obama hoped to use to try to nudge the Vermont senator to accept defeat in the Democratic race.

A deal to solve the US financial crisis will happen “eventually” after an emergency meeting at the White House ended without an agreement, Barack Obama said today.

Amid new questions about George Bush’s determination to remove Saddam Hussein as Iraq’s president, several US Democrats have called for an official inquiry to determine whether the President intentionally misled Congress.