US politics live: Trump orders trans inmates to move

President Trump has ordered prisons to house inmates who are transgender women in men’s facilities and halt medical treatments. Follow live.

Welcome back to our live coverage of the Trump presidency’s eventful first week.

There was a flurry of significant news, on multiple fronts, during the early ours of Friday morning, Australia time.

Mr Trump has signed an executive order directing the government to declassify and release more documents concerning the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.

“Everything will be revealed,” Mr Trump told reporters.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the President’s attempt, via another executive order, to restrict birthright citizenship for the children of immigrants, both legal and illegal.

“This is a blatantly unconstitutional order,” Judge Coughenour said in his ruling, saying it violated the 14th Amendment to America’s Constitution.

Read on for the latest updates.