The US Supreme Court blocked President Barack Obama's bid to shield millions of migrants from deportation on Thursday and thrust the charged issue to the frontline of the battle to succeed him.

A newly surfaced police report related to a 2003 raid on Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch shows the late pop star's penchant for pornography and attraction to children.

Donald Trump's fierce denunciation of Hillary Clinton was rife with distortion.

Democrat Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday that if Republican rival Donald Trump wins the White House, it will be a

The International Monetary Fund warns the United States over poverty and rising inequality in the country, saying both could hold back its economic potential.

A Briton who tried to grab a police officer's gun at a Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas says he wanted to shoot the US candidate, court papers say.

Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has dropped his controversial campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, a

The Solar Impulse 2 aircraft was soaring yesterday over the western Atlantic, one of the most difficult legs of its record-breaking

Authorities have been searching the home of a man accused of sexually assaulting a teenager whose parents police say gave her to him when she was 14.

The presumptive Republican candidate in the US presidential election, Donald Trump, has suggested the country should consider using profiling to combat crime.

Donald Trump yesterday said he is open to racial profiling, touching another raw nerve on the issue of race in America.

Donald Trump chipped away at Hillary Clinton's lead in the presidential race this week, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on

The US administration sought on Friday to contain fallout from a leaked internal memo critical of its Syria policy, but

Hillary and Bill Clinton welcomed the birth Saturday of their second grandchild, gushing that they are "over the moon" about the arrival to

Families of some of the 49 people killed in a massacre at an Orlando gay nightclub will mourn and bury their dead today, a day after President Barack Obama meets survivors and says the United States must act to control gun violence.

More than 50 State Department diplomats signs an internal memo sharply critical of US policy in Syria, calling for military strikes against President Bashar al-Assad's government to stop its persistent violations of a cease-fire in the country's civil war.

US investigators questions the wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, the FBI say, and a law enforcement source says she could face criminal charges if there is evidence of any wrongdoing.

Here are a few excerpts from the survivors of the Orlando shooting who share their nightmarish experience as Omar Mateen shot 50 people dead, in what is said to be the worst mass shooting in US history.

A US family's desperate search for their toddler son, who was snatched by an alligator off the shore of a lake at a Disney resort, ended when divers found the two-year-old's body in murky water.

Reports that Orlando gunman Omar Mateen had been a regular at the gay nightclub he attacked and used gay dating apps have led to speculation that he was motivated by internalised homophobia. But what is it, and could it have anything to do with the worst shooting in recent US history?