The number of US residents who identify as “white” has fallen for the first time, according to the latest 2020 census data released Thursday.

Britain yesterday slammed the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, warning the Taliban’s resurgence would create a breeding ground for extremists that threatened the world. 

An asteroid known as Bennu will pass within half the distance of the Earth to the Moon in the year 2135 but the probability of an impact with our planet in the coming centuries is very slight, scientists said Wednesday.

Former president Donald Trump blasted his successor Joe Biden yesterday for putting no conditions on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and said that a violent Taliban surge in the war-torn country was “not acceptable.” 

Faced with mounting legal pressures and demands for his departure from President Joe Biden and others, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo resigned on Tuesday following an inquiry that found he sexually harassed 11 women, capping a startling downfall for one of the most prominent politicians in the United States.

1898 - The brief Spanish-American War comes to an end when Spain formally agrees to a peace protocol on US terms: the cession of Cuba, Puerto Rico and Manila in the Philippines to the United States pending a final peace treaty.

US President Joe Biden will gather world leaders in December for a virtual “Summit for Democracy” that is being seen as a challenge to authoritarian China and an alternative to the traditional G20 meeting.  

Afghan leaders have to come together. They’ve got to fight for themselves. US President Joe Biden defends his decision to withdraw US troops

The UN special envoy on Myanmar said the country’s military leader appears determined to solidify his grip on power following a February coup and ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party could soon be disbanded. 

California’s largest single wildfire in recorded history continued to grow after destroying nearly 550 homes while authorities in Montana ordered evacuations as a wind-driven blaze roared toward several remote communities.

US officials vowed Monday to review classified documents related to the September 11, 2001 terror attacks to see which could be made public -- a recurring demand of some victims’ relatives.

Queen Elizabeth II’s second son, Prince Andrew, was sued in a New York court on Monday for alleged sexual abuse of a woman who says she was “lent out” for underage sex by late US financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Dozens of small island states most vulnerable to the effects of climate change have called on the world to save “our very future” after a landmark UN report said accelerating global warming and rising sea levels threaten their existence. 

The rapid spread of Delta variant of coronavirus pushed cases and hospitalizations in the United States to a six-month high as only eight intensive care unit beds were available on Monday in the state of Arkansas, its governor said.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud on Monday and repeated a call for progress on human rights.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation Tuesday over a barrage of sexual harassment allegations in a fall from grace a year after he was widely hailed nationally for his detailed daily briefings and leadership during some of the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A top aide to New York governor Andrew Cuomo resigned Sunday, US media reported, as the net closed further around a once-influential politician now facing the possibility of criminal charges over claims he sexually harassed 11 former and current state employees.

The monstrous Dixie Fire in northern California has grown to become the second-largest wildfire in state history, authorities said Sunday, with three more people reported missing and thousands fleeing the advancing flames.

Earth’s average surface temperature is projected to hit 1.5 or 1.6 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels around 2030 in all five of the greenhouse gas emissions scenarios  -- ranging from highly optimistic to reckless -- considered by the report.

At least eight people were missing yesterday  as one of the worst wildfires in the nation scorched through Northern California communities, forest and tinder dry scrub in the Sierra Nevada mountains,