White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

President Trump features prominently in the White House's first TikTok video captioned "America we are BACK! What's up TikTok?" as the administration joins the platform.

Republican strategists say that if they throw in popular phrases such as “working families” and “tax cuts,” voters will embrace the deeply unpopular legislation.

The White House launched an official TikTok account on Tuesday, taking advantage of the short video app's more than 170 million U.S. users to spread the messages of President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump is ratcheting up pressure on Ukraine to agree to terms to end the war with Russia, echoing some of Moscow’s talking points two days after meeting President Vladimir Putin.

Nearly 70 arrests were made on Saturday night during Trump's ongoing cleanup operation in Washington D.C., with charges including assault and weapon possession.

The city’s Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit calling for an emergency restraining order to block the move, accusing the Trump Administration of implementing a “hostile takeover” of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) that would lead to “imminent, irreparable harm”.

The Trump administration is reportedly considering having the US government take a stake in Intel, a company that was once one of America’s most important tech giants but which has since fallen on hard times.