Senator Ted Cruz will declare on Monday that he will run for president in 2016, making him the first major hopeful to formally enter the race

The US defence department says it is investigating an online threat allegedly made by Islamic State to about 100 of its military personnel, and posted a list of the names and addresses on a website linked to the group alongside a call for them to be killed

A Canadian court convicts two terror suspects over a plot to attack a train from New York to Toronto

US security staff shot a knife-wielding man three times at New Orleans international airport after he tried to storm a checkpoint

A 20-year-old US student who was shot in the shoulder decided to post a smiling selfie with the bleeding gunshot wound on social media rather than calling for medical help

A gunman open fires inside a motel room in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa, killing a man and wounding two women before shooting three more people as he sought to elude an exhaustive manhunt that ended in his capture

John Kerry has appreciated the role of Bangladesh’s law enforcement agencies in countering terrorist activities, the foreign minister says

US tycoon Robert Durst is arrested on a murder charge ahead of the finale of a TV show investigating the murder of Susan Berman

Lawmakers passes a bill that would make Utah the only state to allow firing squads for carrying out a death penalty if there is a shortage of execution drugs

The son of Suriname's president is sentenced on Tuesday to 16-1/4 years in prison, after pleading guilty last August to US charges that he tried to offer a home base to the Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah

A baby girl is found alive in a car more than 14 hours after the vehicle plunged into a river in Utah

US President Barack Obama rallied a new generation of Americans in a forceful speech in Selma, Alabama on the 50th anniversary

An Ohio man claiming sympathy with Islamic State militants and charged with plotting to attack the U.S. Capitol says he would have shot President Barack Obama in the head

The US economy adds 295,000 jobs in February, while the unemployment rate fell to 5.5% from 5.7%

US Secretary of State John Kerry says the US hopes the Ukraine ceasefire deal will be implemented within "hours".

US police shot and killed a homeless man after an altercation in downtown Los Angeles.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in the US to argue against a possible nuclear deal with Iran

Eight people are dead and one person injured after a series of shootings in south-central Missouri overnight.

FBI arrests three foreign nationals living in Brooklyn who agents say sought to join the Islamic State

US President Barack Obama has vetoed a bill that would have approved construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline