The United States downgraded its main diplomatic mission to the Palestinians on Thursday, placing it under the authority of the US embassy to Israel.

US President Donald Trump on Thursday praised a US congressman who assaulted a reporter, making light of the attack.

A dissident Vietnamese blogger known by her pen name 'Mother Mushroom' has arrived in the United States after her surprise release

An arsonist convicted of burning down a Texas mosque last year was sentenced Wednesday to more than 24 years in prison for a crime prosecutors said was motivated by hate.

Hundreds of everyday Americans with zero political experience are jumping into the fray for the mid-term congressional elections in a country that has become ever more polarized since Donald Trump was elected president in 2016.

Two weeks after he disappeared, The Washington Post on Wednesday published what it said appears to be Jamal Khashoggi's final column, in which the missing Saudi journalist writes of the importance of a free press in the Arab world.

The United States conducted its largest air strike in nearly two years against militants in Somalia, killing about 60 Al-Shabaab fighters, the US military said Tuesday. The strike took place Friday in the Harardhere area along the central coast of the Horn of Africa country.

The US Treasury Department has slapped sanctions on an Iranian paramilitary group along with a network of businesses that were providing it financing, as part of Washington's campaign of maximum economic pressure against Tehran.

Canada is now the largest country with a legal national marijuana marketplace as sales began in Newfoundland.

Billionaire Paul Allen, who founded US software giant Microsoft with Bill Gates in the 1970s, died Monday after his latest battle with cancer. He was 65. Allen died just two weeks after publicly revealing that the non-Hodgkin's lymphoma he fought into remission nine years ago had returned. The incurable cancer affects white blood cells.

President Donald Trump scored a legal victory Monday against porn star Stormy Daniels when a federal US judge rejected her defamation suit against him.

A US judge dismisses adult film actress Stormy Daniels's defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump and orders her to pay his attorney's fees, saying a tweet the president had written referring to her was protected by free-speech laws.

US President Donald Trump said in an interview aired yesterday that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis "could be" leaving, referring to him as

The hunt for missing people in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael early yesterday is turning into a search for the dead, as hope of finding more people alive fades in the Florida Panhandle, US officials said.

The US Senate has confirmed the nomination of Earl Robert Miller as the new US ambassador to Bangladesh.

Melania Trump dismisses the widespread talk about her husband President Donald Trump's alleged affairs with a porn star and others, saying she has "more important things to think about."

An Airbus jetliner arrived in Newark yesterday after a nearly 18-hour trip from Singapore, completing the world's longest commercial flight.

Search and rescue teams comb through shattered US communities looking for victims of Hurricane Michael, a Category 4 monster storm which carved out a swathe of destruction in the Florida Panhandle, killing at least six in three states.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that India "will soon find out" about his decision on the punitive CAATSA sanctions after India signed a $5 billion deal to purchase the much-vaunted S-400 air defence system from Russia.

Michael weakened to a tropical storm yesterday after wreaking havoc along Florida's Gulf Coast, flooding homes and streets, ripping away roofs and snapping trees and power lines as it roared ashore as a raging Category 4 hurricane.