US President Joe Biden yesterday landed in Asia vowing to urge Chinese leader Xi Jinping to rein in North Korea when they hold their first face-to-face meeting at next week’s G20 summit.

Southeast Asian heads of government yesterday held talks with visiting global leaders including US President Joe Biden, who hailed the launch of a new US-Asean pact as a critical step towards tackling “the biggest issues of our time”.

The United States government has stopped taking applications for student debt relief, after a federal judge blocked President Joe Biden's loan forgiveness plan, according to a notice on a government website.

Donald Trump will announce next week that he is taking another shot at the presidency with a White House run in 2024, his long-time advisor Jason Miller said Friday.

Incumbent Democrat Mark Kelly defeated Republican Blake Masters on Friday to win a US Senate seat in Arizona, a contest that left Democrats one seat short in the battle for control of the chamber with two more races to be decided.

The United States will keep in place the public health emergency status of the Covid-19 pandemic, allowing millions of Americans to still receive free tests, vaccines and treatments, two Biden administration officials said on Friday.

Bangladeshi origin Nabilah Islam, 32, made history in the US midterm elections, becoming the first-ever Muslim and the youngest woman to be elected to the Georgia Senate.

A US judge in Texas on Thursday blocked President Joe Biden’s plan to provide millions of borrowers with up to $20,000 apiece in federal student-loan forgiveness — a program that was already on hold as a federal appeals court in St. Louis considers a separate lawsuit by six states challenging it.

Republicans edged closer yesterday to securing a majority in the US House of Representatives while control of the Senate hinged on a few tight races, two days after Democrats staved off an anticipated “red wave” of Republican gains in midterm elections.

The struggle for control of the US Senate boiled down to three races, with each party needing to win two of those states to secure a majority, as fractious Republicans limped along toward a tenuous hold on the House.

Republican hopes of a “red wave” carrying them to power in the US Congress faded yesterday as Joe Biden’s Democrats put up a stronger-than-expected defence in a midterm contest headed for a cliff-hanger finish.

From the first openly lesbian governor to the first Generation Z member-elect of Congress, early results in the US midterms heralded a good night for diversity.

Joe Biden’s Democrats seem to have escaped a feared drubbing in Tuesday’s midterm elections, but it remains to be seen whether that will revive the US president’s flagging fortunes until 2024 -- or beyond.

Here are some takeaways from the US midterm elections so far:

Control of Congress hung in the balance early Wednesday as Democrats showed surprising strength, defeating Republicans in a series of competitive races and defying expectations that high inflation and President Joe Biden’s low approval ratings would drag the party down.

Republicans were favoured to wrest control of the US House of Representatives away from President Joe Biden's Democrats based on early returns in Tuesday's midterm elections, though the prospects of a "red wave" appeared to have dimmed.

US voters head to the polls on Tuesday for crucial midterm elections that threaten Democrats’ razor-thin majorities in the House of Representatives and Senate.

The White House on Monday said US support for Ukraine’s war effort will be “unwavering” even if Republicans, who have expressed concerns about the level of spending, win midterm elections. 

Days after Twitter Inc fired half its staff and new owner Elon Musk tweeted a recommendation to vote for Republican candidates, election experts are anxiously bracing for a surge in online misinformation as Americans headed to the polls yesterday.

More than 40 million Americans have cast early ballots ahead of yesterday’s midterm elections, surpassing the numbers from two years ago, the US Elections Project said Monday.