US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis resigned Thursday, leading a chorus of protests at home and abroad after President Donald Trump ordered a complete troop pullout from Syria and a significant withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Americans have got fatter over the past two decades, adding girth to their bellies and even growing fractionally shorter on average, according to federal health data release.

The United States said Wednesday it approved the sale of $3.5 billion in missiles to Turkey, offering an ultimatum after US outrage over

The US Senate on Wednesday night approved an emergency short-term spending bill that averts a looming government shutdown, but excludes the $5 billion that President Donald Trump sought for a US-Mexico border wall.

Almost 700 clergymen in Illinois have been accused of child sexual assault, a far greater number than the Catholic Church had previously disclosed, the Midwestern US state's top prosecutor revealed Wednesday.

The US Treasury hit 15 members of Russia's GRU military intelligence agency with sanctions Wednesday over their alleged roles in interference in the 2016 presidential election and hacking the World Anti-Doping Agency.

The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces say a White House decision to withdraw from Syria will allow an Islamic State revival and threaten the battle in eastern Syria.

After weeks of market volatility and calls by President Donald Trump for the Federal Reserve to stop raising interest rates, the US central bank instead does it again.

Journalists faced growing dangers of being targeted for killing for their work in 2018 even as the risks from war and conflict declined, a

A federal judge accused President Donald Trump's former national security chief Michael Flynn Tuesday of selling out the United States

US President Donald Trump accuses tech giants Facebook, Twitter and Google of being biased in favor of opposition Democrats, a day after a report for the Senate revealed Russian agents had used social media in an attempt to sway the 2016 election in Trump's favor.

US President Donald Trump again attacked the Federal Reserve yesterday for considering raising interest rates, on the eve of a meeting at

Donald Trump said Saturday that his interior secretary will be leaving soon -- the latest in a series of high-profile departures from an

Donald Trump announced Friday that his budget director Mick Mulvaney will step in as acting chief of staff to replace John Kelly. Kelly

President Donald Trump played down hopes Friday for any imminent deal to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear arsenal.

A federal judge in Texas has ruled that the US health care law known as Obamacare is unconstitutional -- a ruling that opposition

The United States and Canada on Friday promised a fair judicial process for a Chinese executive arrested in Vancouver on a US request,

A federal judge in Texas rules the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, unconstitutional based on its mandate requiring that people buy health insurance, a decision in a case that could reach the US Supreme Court.

US President Donald Trump on Friday moves to end speculation that he was having a hard time finding a new chief of staff, naming his budget chief Mick Mulvaney to the top post on a temporary basis.

Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner is on the short-list of potential candidates for the president's next chief of staff, US media said Thursday.