A U.S. federal judge overturned California's 32-year-old ban on assault weapons on Friday, describing it as a "failed experiment" and prompting scathing criticism from the state's governor and attorney general.

Asian Americans were already worn down by a year of pandemic-fueled racist attacks when a white gunman was charged with killing eight people, most of them Asian women, at three Atlanta-area massage parlors.

The United States expresses disappointment over reported irregularities and intimidation in Tuesday's Khulna City Corporation elections but congratulated all the parties on making the elections inclusive.

Former US first lady Barbara Bush dies Tuesday at the age of 92, triggering widespread tributes for the matriarch of a Republican family that served at the top of American politics.

The Republican-controlled US Senate rejected four competing gun control measures Monday just days after the

A 19-year-old British man has been charged for trying to grab a police officer's gun at a Donald Trump rally in Las

Orlando turned to burying its dead Friday, with funerals for at least five of the 49 people killed in a massacre at a gay nightclub --

Hackers invited by the US government as part of a pilot program to find flaws with five Pentagon websites discovered

Liberal White House hopeful Bernie Sanders declined to bow out of his race against Hillary Clinton on Thursday,

President Barack Obama travelled to grief-stricken Orlando Thursday, meeting loved ones devastated by a shooting

A US family's desperate search for their toddler son, who was snatched by an alligator off the shore of a lake at a Disney resort,

An American man fatally stabbed himself with a pair of scissors in a Taiwan courtroom yesterday during his sentencing

Violent extremism poses "one of the biggest threats" to the Maldives' national security, the president of the troubled

US President Barack Obama met the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, at the White House on

US President Barack Obama was yesterday set to visit Orlando to meet with survivors of the massacre at a gay

Muslim-Americans have repeatedly informed authorities of fellow Muslims they fear might be turning to extremism,

Hillary Clinton captured the mostly symbolic Democratic primary Tuesday in the US capital, the final vote of the 2016 presidential primaries, as the race shifts to her showdown with Republican rival Donald Trump.

Florida police are searching for a two-year-old boy who was dragged into water by an alligator near a Disney resort.

US Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday warned Russia and the Syrian government to respect a "frayed" ceasefire, as vicious fighting south of second city Aleppo left dozens dead.

May's temperatures broke global records yet again, as the northern hemisphere finishes its hottest spring on record,