A temporary security lockdown at the US Capitol comes to an end after a man shot himself dead in front of the complex on Saturday, police said.

US President Barack Obama and Cuba's Raul Castro will break bread with other Americas leaders at a historic summit yesterday, a

A US woman has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for making her five-year-old son sick and eventually killing him to gain online attention.

A power line breaks loose at an electrical substation near Washington, briefly dimming the White House, emptying museums and cutting electricity to government buildings and the US Capitol for hours.

An Alabama man is freed after spending nearly 30 years on death row.

The grandson of billionaire Getty oil founder J. Paul Getty is found dead at his home in Los Angeles, the family said in a statement.

One man is dead and another severely injured after a shootout at one of the main gates of the National Security Agency located at Fort Meade, Maryland.

Two bodies are found at the site of a massive gas explosion that flattened three buildings in New York on Thursday

Iran and major powers are close to agreement on a 2- or 3-page accord with specific numbers that would form the basis of a long-term settlement aimed at ending a 12-year standoff over Tehran's nuclear ambitions, officials said

At least 19 people are injured after an explosion caused two residential apartment buildings to collapse and engulf in flames in New York City's East Village neighborhood

A Detroit mother is arrested after officials found two of her children dead inside her freezer

The United States assures Afghanistan's leaders it will keep funding Afghan security forces at a targeted peak level of 352,000 personnel at least into 2017 to provide stability as foreign troops withdraw from the country

At least 36 people are dead and 70 injured after a bus drifted into the opposite lane and hit two buses and a truck in Peru

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