Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former longtime personal lawyer, pleads guilty for lying to Congress about a proposed Trump Organization skyscraper in Moscow, prompting the president to lash out at Cohen as a liar and "weak person."

Nancy Pelosi, the highest-ranking woman in the history of US politics, was re-elected Wednesday to lead congressional Democrats, a

Life expectancy in the United States dropped yet again as drug overdose deaths continued to climb -- taking more than 70,000 lives in

Donald Trump jets to Argentina yesterday for a weekend of G20 summitry riven by new tensions over Ukraine on top of fissures carved open by the US president on trade and climate change and war in Yemen and Khashoggi killing.

A 78-year-old drifter in prison in Texas confesses to 90 murders and is being investigated as possibly the most prolific serial killer in US history.

Nasa's InSight spacecraft, the first robotic lander designed to study the deep interior of a distant world, touches down safely on the surface of Mars with instruments to detect planetary seismic rumblings never measured anywhere but Earth.

Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort breached his plea deal by lying to federal investigators, US prosecutors said in a court filing, signaling a potential setback to the special counsel's probe into Russia's meddling in the 2016 US presidential election.

President Donald Trump on Monday rejected projections that climate change will cause severe economic harm to the US economy, findings outlined by a report his own US government published last week.

US President Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday that migrants at the US-Mexico border would stay in Mexico until their asylum claims were individually approved in US courts, but Mexico's incoming government denied they had struck any deal.

A US soldier was killed in Afghanistan on Saturday, Nato said, taking the number of American service personnel to die in the war-torn

The United States and South Korea have scaled down an annual joint military exercise scheduled for the spring of 2019 to facilitate nuclear talks with North Korea, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Wednesday.

The outgoing head of Facebook's communications team on Wednesday took responsibility for the controversial hiring of a conservative consulting firm accused of using "black ops" style techniques, acknowledging critics including investor George Soros were targeted.

President Donald Trump entered an extraordinary row Wednesday with the chief justice of the Supreme Court, claiming "shocking" bias against his policies in parts of the judiciary.

US Chief Justice John Roberts defends the independence of the federal judiciary a day after President Donald Trump called a judge who ruled against his policy barring asylum for certain immigrants an "Obama judge".

President Donald Trump calls a CIA assessment blaming Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi "very premature" and says he will receive a complete report on the case on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump expressed sadness Saturday at the devastation caused by fires in a California town, but persisted in his controversial claim that forest mismanagement was responsible for the tragedy, which has killed 76 and left more than 1,200 listed as missing.

US authorities agrees on how to regulate food products cultured from animal cells -- paving the way to get so-called "lab meat" on American plates.

Leaked data about persecuted minority groups like Rohingyas, in wrong hands "could be used to target these individuals."

The US Central Intelligence Agency has concluded Saudi Arabia's powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was behind the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, US media reported Friday, citing people close to the matter.

The fight over President Donald Trump's appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general has reached the US Supreme Court, with lawyers in a pending gun rights case asking the justices on Friday to decide if the action was lawful.