Police are investigating the shooting of nine African Americans at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston as a hate crime committed by a

Last month marked the hottest May in modern history, continuing a troubling trend of rising global temperatures, US government scientists said yesterday.

US Secretary of State John Kerry greeted Muslims across the globe on the occasion of Ramadan describing it as a season for heightened reflection, worship, compassion, and

Alexander Hamilton, who has been featured on the $10 bill since 1929, is making way for a woman.

The increasingly tense relationship between the United States and Russia might be about to face a new challenge: a Russian investigation into American moon landings.

With his campaign logo ready, Jeb Bush was set to make his big announcement yesterday, formally adding his name to the crowded Republican field for the 2016 US presidential election.

The US spends more than $9m (£5.7m) a day on the war against Islamic State, and has poured $2.7bn (£1.7bn) into the bombing campaign since the start.

Parts of the White House and a Senate office building evacuated after telephone bomb threats.

An US state court orders the release of an inmate who has been in solitary confinement for more than 40 years.

The US army has temporarily taken down its website after a hacking attack.

A frantic manhunt was on yesterday for two convicted murderers who busted out of New York state's biggest maximum security prison by cutting through cell walls with power

Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen moved to United States by the Center for Inquiry (CFI), New York-based advocacy group, which says that she received death threats, reports The Huffington Post.

US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter has said the US will continue to play a "pivotal" role in Asia in the future. Speaking to the BBC while visiting Vietnam yesterday, Carter said the US could ensure "peace and prosperity", the only way "everyone gets to rise and win". He spoke amid new tensions over multi-nation claims in the South China Sea.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has been taken to hospital in Switzerland after a biking accident in the nearby French Alps.

New York City is putting up warning signs at all public pools prohibiting prolonged breath holding as a part of a movement to raise awareness of the peril.

As many as 22 people in South Korea and four US lab workers may have been exposed to anthrax after the American military accidentally shipped out at least one live sample, officials said.

The United States urge Malaysian authorities to carry out a full investigation into the grisly discovery of mass graves at human-trafficking camps and charge those behind the killings.

At least 17 people dies and dozens injured in the US states of Oklahoma and Texas following record rainfall over the weekend.

Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian went on trial on espionage charges behind closed doors in Tehran yesterday, 10 months after he was arrested at his home and imprisoned, Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel tops the Forbes list of the world's most powerful women for the fifth straight year but Hillary Clinton is snapping at her heels, the magazine said yesterday.