The United States vowed Monday that it would track down and defeat surviving leaders of the Islamic State movement after its elusive supremo Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi appeared to speak in a newly released videotape.

US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller in May 2017 to investigate links between the Russian government and President Donald Trump's campaign, said on Monday he was resigning from his post.

A gunman fired indiscriminately into a crowd that gathered for Sunday afternoon cookouts along a west Baltimore street, killing a man and wounding seven other people, authorities and reports say.

A giant construction crane operating at the site of a future Google campus collapses from the roof of a building and topples across a Seattle intersection in US, killing four people and injuring three others, authorities and local media says.

A gunman walked into a San Diego-area synagogue crowded with Sabbath worshipers and opened fire with an assault-style rifle, killing one woman inside and wounding three others in a hate crime carried out on the last day of Passover, authorities have said.

US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden raised $6.3 million in the first 24 hours of his campaign, providing a stronger showing

The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, saying it would pursue those in President Nicolas Maduro’s government for corruption as well as officials conducting diplomacy on his behalf.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is accelerating a plan to cut up to half of the workforce at the US embassy in Kabul starting at the end of next month, sparking concern it will undermine the fragile Afghan peace process, US officials and congressional aides said.

President Donald Trump told the National Rifle Association on Friday he was pulling the United States out of an international arms treaty signed in 2013 by then-President Barack Obama but opposed by the NRA and other conservative groups.

Former US Vice President Joe Biden jumped into the race for the White House yesterday, positioning the veteran Democrat as a frontrunner among the many candidates seeking to challenge Donald Trump in 2020.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said after holding his first face-to-face talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that US security guarantees would probably not be enough to persuade Pyongyang to shut its nuclear programme.

Former US vice president Joe Biden jumps into the race for the White House, becoming the frontrunner in a crowded field challenging Donald Trump in 2020 -- and hoping to be the oldest leader in American history.

US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor Jared Kushner said Tuesday he would present his long-awaited Middle East peace proposal around June and that it would include a “robust business plan” for the Palestinians.

Nobel Peace Prize laureates Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege called Tuesday for justice for victims of sexual violence in conflict zones, as the UN Security Council approved a watered-down resolution largely stripped of substance by the United States and Russia.

US President Donald Trump said Monday that Congress “can’t impeach” him over the findings of the Mueller report into Russian election meddling and his alleged attempts to hamper the investigation.

The United States recorded 71 new measles cases last week, a 13 percent increase as the country faces its second-worst outbreak of the

US President Donald Trump yesterday sued to block a subpoena issued by the Democratic chairman of the US House Oversight Committee that sought information about his personal and business finances.

The number of Americans who approve of President Donald Trump drops by 3 percentage points to the lowest level of the year following the release of a special counsel report detailing Russian interference in the last US presidential election, according to an exclusive Reuters/Ipsos public opinion poll.

The eldest son and daughter of a couple who starved and shackled 12 of their children spoke publicly for the first time, alternately condemning and forgiving their parents before a judge sentences the pair to up to life in prison.

The Trump administration on Wednesday imposed new sanctions and other punitive measures on Cuba and Venezuela, seeking to ratchet up US pressure on Havana to end its support for Venezuela’s socialist president, Nicolas Maduro.