The White House had blocked access for CNN, MS Now and Politico, leading them to restrict pool coverage.

Ukraine’s leader had said the deal with Russia to release diesel into the US would help Moscow fund the war.

Roofs were ripped off buildings after Isaias barrelled into the US on Friday evening, before it weakened to a post-tropical cyclone.

Pike’s lawyers say she is “grateful” to the medical team who cared for her after she survived two lethal injections last month.

Navi Pillay says the Trump administrations’ sweeping penalties on the international tribunal were “unheard of”.

Hundreds of thousands of households are without power in Florida and Alabama as Isaias continues its path across south-eastern US.

Ukraine’s president sharply criticised the move, calling it an “investment in war that must be ended, not prolonged”.

The conservative commentator currently works as a communications adviser at Trump Media & Technology Group.

The US president hopes to ease his party’s pain before next month’s midterm elections, writes the BBC’s North America correspondent.