US House Democrats issued subpoenas Friday against top government officials demanding President Donald Trump’s tax returns, the latest twist in the sharpening battle between the White House and opponents in Congress.

North Korean missile launches over the past week have not affected Donald Trump’s relationship with Kim Jong Un, the US president said Friday, in a change of course after initially expressing his dissatisfaction. Pyongyang fired two short-range missiles Thursday following an earlier drill the previous Saturday -- the first in 18 months.

A New Jersey man who defrauded Medicare by using the promise of ice cream to lure senior citizens into genetic testing is sentenced to more than four years in prison.

Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan approved a new deployment of Patriot missiles to the Middle East, a US official tells Reuters, in the latest US response to what Washington sees as a growing threat from Iran.

Facebook is suing South Korean data analytics firm Rankwave to make sure it isn't breaking the leading social network's rules, the US company says.

China and the United States have agreed to hold more trade talks in Beijing, Vice Premier Liu He says, as US President Donald Trump ordered his trade chief to begin the process of imposing tariffs on all remaining imports from China.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday the Trump administration doesn’t want war with Iran, but he warned Tehran of a “swift and decisive” US response to any attack.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the US is in a “constitutional crisis” triggered by President Donald Trump’s refusal to comply with congressional inquiries into his actions, mainly in connection with the Russian election interference probe.

Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido accused President Nicolas Maduro’s regime on Thursday of “dismantling” parliament after three lawmakers sought diplomatic refuge while another was arrested for treason.

US President Donald Trump says he is in no hurry to sign a trade deal with China as Washington imposes a new set of tariffs on Chinese goods and negotiators enter a second day of last-ditch talks to try to salvage an agreement.

The United States has for the first time seized a North Korean cargo ship it accused of illicit coal shipments in violation of US and United Nations sanctions, the US Justice Department announced yesterday.

President Donald Trump orders new sanctions on Iran, this time targeting the Islamic Republic's export revenues from its industrial metals sector, and vows to keep squeezing Tehran unless it "fundamentally alters" its policies.

The White House defiantly asserted executive privilege and refused to comply with “unlawful and reckless” demands by congressional Democrats to turn over an unredacted version of the special counsel’s Russia report.

President Donald Trump’s taxes show that he lost $1.17 billion over a decade starting in the mid-1980s, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

US House Democrats scheduled a Wednesday vote on whether to hold the nation’s top law enforcement official in contempt for failing to produce a full, unredacted special counsel’s report on Russian election interference.

US President Donald Trump is enjoying the strongest polling of his presidency following the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report and positive economic news, according to public opinion poll agency Gallup.

The United States has refused to sign an agreement on challenges in the Arctic due to discrepancies over climate change wording, diplomats said yesterday, jeopardising cooperation in the polar region at the sharp edge of global warming.

The United States is sending an aircraft carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the Middle East in a “clear and unmistakable”

Catalonia’s former president Carles Puigdemont, who fled Spain in 2017 after a secession attempt, can contest EU polls this month, a

Sri Lanka’s Roman Catholic Church appealed for calm and an alcohol ban yesterday after clashes between Christians and Muslims in a