Authorities say the US president was not in Florida when a suspect carrying a shotgun and fuel can was killed.

Mexico’s most wanted drug lord Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho”, has been killed during a military operation in Jalisco on Sunday, the Mexican defence ministry said.

The Secret Service shot a man near the White House on Sunday shortly after midnight after an “armed confrontation” with law enforcement, according to the agency. The encounter happened near the ...