Hillary Clinton captures the mostly symbolic Democratic primary in the US capital, the final vote of the 2016 presidential primaries, as the race shifts to her showdown with Republican rival Donald Trump.

Vigils have been held in Orlando, Florida, and around the world for the victims of Sunday's deadly gun attack on a gay nightclub.

The victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, are being identified by the US authorities and their names released once their families have been told. So far, 36 of the 49 killed have been named: 32 men and four women aged between 19 and 50.

Death toll of a shooting in a gay club in Florida's Orlando rises to 50. The local mayor declares a state of emergency.

CIA chief John Brennan said secret findings of a 2002 congressional investigation into the 9/11 attacks should not be taken as evidence of official Saudi complicity.

The last time Maria Mancia, 42, had seen her son Steve Hernandez was in 1995 when he was just 18 months old. She’d returned to her Rancho Cucamonga, California home one day to find the place ransacked and her child missing.

President Barack Obama made the short but sentimental drive across Washington on Friday to attend his oldest daughter's high school

Singer Christina Grimmie, who starred in NBC's "The Voice," died Friday after being shot at a concert in Orlando, Florida by an unidentified

Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 11 points in the US presidential race, showing little change after she became the presumptive

Singer Christina Grimmie, who had competed on the US TV programme The Voice, has died of her wounds after being shot in Florida, police say.

A plane powered entirely by the sun is flying to New York City. The Solar Impulse 2 has taken off from Lehigh Valley, 87 miles (140km) west of the "Big Apple", on a journey that should take only a few hours.

Hillary Clinton's snarky tweet to her White House rival Donald Trump was among the funniest of the campaign. Almost as funny as it was awkward.

Hillary Clinton said Wednesday she'll consider "the most qualified people" for the Democratic vice presidential nomination -- which would include women.

Pressure is building on Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders to give up his fight for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Leading Republicans united Tuesday in an extraordinary denunciation of Donald Trump's attacks on a federal judge, with House Speaker Paul Ryan calling them the "textbook definition of a racist comment." Yet Ryan stood by his endorsement of the presumptive presidential nominee.

Sixteen-year-old Ziad Ahmed is a Bangladeshi-American social justice activist whose mission is to help teenagers fight against racial, gender or any type of discrimination in the United States.

Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente should probably be a Republican. The walls in the lobby of his San Diego, California, office are dominated by photos in which he's smiling alongside Republicans - Presidents Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush and George W Bush, and 2008 nominee John McCain.

Donald Trump says he made "a lot of money" in a deal years ago with Muammar Gaddafi, despite suggesting at the time he had

Hillary Clinton defeated her rival Bernie Sanders in Puerto Rico's Democratic primary Sunday, bringing her to the brink of victory in their long-fought battle for the party's presidential nomination.

The US Navy has banned all its personnel in Japan from drinking alcohol and has restricted off-base activity after a sailor was