South African president meets Trump at White House; administration faces questions over South Sudan deportations – live

Cyril Ramaphosa and US president expected to talk about Trump’s treatment of South Africa’s white Afrikaner minority; deportations defying court order cause uproar

A federal judge has rejected a bid by the US treasury department to cancel a union contract covering tens of thousands of IRS staff, Reuters reports, in an early blow to Donald Trump’s efforts to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many federal workers.

US district judge Danny Reeves in Lexington, Kentucky, said in a written opinion late on Tuesday that the department lacked legal standing to bring a lawsuit against the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU).