Joan Baez, one of the closest collaborators and former partner of Bob Dylan, on Thursday hailed his Nobel Prize for Literature as a step

Paul Ryan, the top Republican in the US Congress, took the extraordinary step on Monday of distancing himself from Donald Trump, stirring a backlash from some lawmakers and deepening a crisis over his party's struggling presidential nominee.

Embattled White House hopeful Donald Trump lashed out at "disloyal" Republicans in a ranting tweetstorm yesterday, saying they are to blame if his faltering campaign comes up short.

White House candidate Donald Trump desperately needs a strong debate performance against Hillary Clinton with stakes sky-high amid intense scrutiny of his treatment of women, and a damaging video of him boasting that he beds married ones.

President Barack Obama on Friday formally eased sanctions on Myanmar, fulfilling a pledge made to the country's de facto leader Aung

US officials formally accused the Russian government Friday of trying to "interfere" with the American presidential election, and vowed to respond at an undisclosed time and place.

President Barack Obama on Friday cast his ballot for the Nov. 8 election during a trip to his hometown of Chicago.

Hurricane Matthew slammed into South Carolina yesterday, packing a diminished yet still powerful punch after killing almost 900

Donald Trump has urged terminally ill people to stay alive long enough to vote for him in the US presidential election next month.

The White House accused Israel of a betrayal of trust Wednesday, in an unusually sharp rebuke over its plans to build hundreds of new settlement homes deep in the West Bank.

Donald Trump's presidential hopes suffered a punishing new setback Monday as authorities clamped down on his charitable

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange yesterday vowed to publish new "significant" documents related to the US presidential

The US Senate yesterday voted overwhelmingly to override Barack Obama's veto of a bill allowing 9/11 victims to sue Saudi

TRUMP ON IRAQ WAR: “Wrong. Wrong. ... That is a mainstream media nonsense put out by her. I was against the war in Iraq.”

It was the opening Hillary Clinton had been waiting for all night. Late in Monday's debate, when the candidates each had notched their points on trade, taxes, crime and more, the talk turned to Clinton's stamina, brought to the fore by her recent bout of pneumonia.

Hillary Clinton was deemed the winner of Monday night's debate by 62% of voters who tuned in to watch, while just 27% said they thought Donald Trump had the better night, according to a CNN/ORC Poll of voters who watched the debate.

Views from around the world on first US presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump.

Donald Trump's habit of peddling hype and fabrication emerges unabated in the first presidential debate while Hillary Clinton plays it cautiously in her statements, though not without error. They both denied making statements that they are on the record as saying.

A gunman opened fire in Houston yesterday just before daybreak, wounding nine people before police shot and killed him, police said.

Global media have alleged US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump of lying and distorting facts in his election campaign. Watch the motion info-graphics to know about the top ten things Trump said which are simply not true.