California congressman Eric Swalwell has not said whether he had an intimate relationship with a Chinese honey trap spy, as Donald Trump Jr called him a "threat to national security".

The state of Texas has joined the desperate effort to get a case that would overturn the election results before the Supreme Court on the stroke of midnight Tuesday – by suing four battleground states that Joe Biden won for the way they conducted elections.

President Trump tweeted a video of a Chinese professor suggesting that China has managed to make an impact on U.S. policy for decades thanks to a special network of relationships with people at the upper echelons of American power.

The mayor of Los Angeles declared the coronavirus crisis is the “greatest threat to life” the city has ever encountered — as the City of Angels grapples with a flood of new cases.