US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that China had agreed to cut import tariffs on American-made cars, a potential boon for automakers including Tesla Inc and BMW who manufacture in the United States for export to China.

Former US president George HW Bush, who guided America through the end of the Cold War and launched the international campaign to drive Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein's forces from Kuwait, died yesterday at his home in Houston. He was 94.

Tributes have poured for former US president George H.W. Bush following his death on Friday at the age of 94.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday played down hopes for an imminent breakthrough on ending Yemen's brutal war, saying he hoped talks would start by the end of the year.

US President Donald Trump yesterday reiterated his innocence in connection with a Moscow real estate deal that has reportedly been a focus of a probe into whether his 2016 presidential campaign conspired with Russian operatives.

President Donald Trump's intensifying attacks this week against the Russia collusion investigation underscore a growing nervousness

Three weeks after flames incinerates most of a Northern California town in the deadliest US wildfire in a century, the search for more human remains ends with at least 88 people confirmed dead and nearly 200 still missing.

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

Hundreds of Central American migrants staged a boisterous demonstration on the US Mexico border Thursday, screaming for President Donald Trump to let them in as US soldiers and riot police put on a menacing show of force.

A Guatemalan court on Wednesday sentenced a former soldier to 5,160 years in prison for the massacre of 201 peasants during one of the worst atrocities of the Central American nation's civil war.

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.