Americans will see the first direct deposits from President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package hit their bank accounts this weekend, Treasury and Internal Revenue Service officials said on Friday.

The city of Minneapolis on Friday agreed to pay $27 million to settle a lawsuit by the family of George Floyd over his death in police custody, a case that stirred national protests over racial injustice and police brutality.

A homeless man spent five hours last month freely roaming the military base where the US president’s plane is kept, after easily passing through several layers of security, the Air Force admitted Thursday.

The United States suggested Wednesday it will oppose the release of billions of dollars in Iranian funds from South Korea until Tehran returns to full compliance with a nuclear deal.

One of former President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration rules - barring people deemed likely to need government benefits from legal permanent residency - suffered what could be a mortal blow on Tuesday when the US Supreme Court dismissed litigation over it at the urging of President Joe Biden’s administration.

US President Joe Biden will hold an online meeting on Friday with the leaders of Japan, India and Australia, the White House said on Tuesday, the first leader-level meeting of a four-country group seen as part of efforts to balance China’s growing military and economic power.

Preliminary studies suggest the AstraZeneca vaccine will protect against the P1 variant of the coronavirus, Mauricio Zuma, the head of production at Brazil’s Fiocruz biomedical institute said confirming a Reuters report.

The judge hearing the murder trial of the police officer charged with killing George Floyd delayed the start of jury selection yesterday.

US President Joe Biden yesterday welcomed the “historic” visit by Pope Francis to Iraq, saying it sent an “important” message of peace.

The US government said Sunday that all options remain on the table for its remaining 2,500 troops in Afghanistan, saying it has made no decisions about its military commitment after May 1.

The United States will do what it sees as necessary to defend its interests after a rocket attack last week against Iraq’s Ain al-Sada airbase, which hosts American, coalition and Iraqi forces, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said.

Nine months after George Floyd's death laid bare the racial wounds in the United States, the white policeman charged with murdering the 46-year-old Black man is going on trial.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador today said a metallic barrier to wall off the presidential palace ahead of a planned women’s march on International Women’s Day was to avoid provocation and protect historic buildings from vandalism.

Former US president Donald Trump will be allowed back on YouTube but only when the threat of his inciting violence abates, the head of the popular online video sharing platform said Thursday.

The US House of Representatives cancelled a session scheduled for Thursday following law enforcement warnings of intelligence pointing to a possible plot by a militia group to breach the US Capitol, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.

Authorities are investigating whether human smuggling was involved after a crash Tuesday involving an SUV packed with 25 people and a tractor-trailer that left 13 people dead and bodies strewn across a roadway near the US Mexico border.

FBI Director Chris Wray yesterday debunked conspiracy theories promoted by right-wing supporters of former President Donald Trump, saying there was no evidence that leftist extremists disguised themselves as Trump supporters to storm the US Capitol.

FBI Director Chris Wray is set to testify for the first time since the deadly Jan 6 riot at the US Capitol, with lawmakers likely to press him on whether the bureau adequately communicated with other law enforcement agencies about the potential for violence that day.

Qatar-based media outlet Al Jazeera and five journalists have been sued in a US court over airing the report ‘All the Prime Minister's Men’ with “inaccurate information”.

A UN human rights investigator said that it was “extremely dangerous” for the United States to have named Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler as having approved an operation to capture or kill journalist Jamal Khashoggi but not to have taken action against him.