If he has no intention, why does he keep talking about it? Why is he talking about the ability to use a tactical nuclear weapon? He’s been very dangerous in how he’s approached this.

Nasa’s robotic InSight lander, in the twilight of its service after nearly four years on Mars, is revealing new details about Earth’s closest planetary neighbour based on data from two big meteorite impacts that shed light on the Martian crust’s structure.

US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul Pelosi was assaulted during a break-in at the couple’s San Francisco home early yesterday and a suspect has been arrested, authorities said.

Two people were killed on Monday and several were injured by a gunman who opened fire at a high school in the midwestern US city of St. Louis, police said.

Ashton Carter, who served as US secretary of defense during Barack Obama’s administration, has died at age 68, his family said.

A 19-year-old gunman opened fire at a high school in St. Louis, Missouri, on Monday, killing two people and injuring seven others before officers fatally shot the suspect, the city's police commissioner said.

Plastic recycling rates are declining even as production shoots up, according to a Greenpeace USA report out yesterday that blasted industry

Joe Biden, the oldest person ever in the US presidency, said Friday it’s his “intention” to run again in 2024 and that his wife Jill thinks he should not “walk away.”

Former President Donald Trump was ordered on Friday to testify under oath and provide documents to the House of Representatives committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol by his supporters.

Steve Bannon, a prominent figure on the American right who served as a senior strategist for former President Donald Trump, was sentenced by a judge on Friday to four months in prison for refusing to cooperate with lawmakers investigating last year’s US Capitol attack by a pro-Trump mob.

A Massachusetts court in the US has arrested an Awami League leader in the US and sent him to jail on charges of raping an American black woman and strangulating her.

A section of McDonald Avenue in Kensington of New York has been officially co-named “Little Bangladesh” to celebrate the Bangladeshi community there and its contributions to the neighbourhood.

Beijing wants to seize Taiwan “on a much faster timeline” than previously considered, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday, warning that President Xi Jinping was leading China in a more aggressive direction.

Two United Nations peacekeepers were killed and four injured in northern Mali yesterday by a highway bomb, the UN mission said on Twitter.

President Joe Biden has “no plans” to meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at an upcoming G20 summit in Indonesia, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said yesterday.

Lawmakers probing the 2021 attack on the US Capitol voted on Thursday to subpoena former president Donald Trump to testify on his role in the violence, in a major escalation of the sprawling enquiry weeks before it is due to wind up.

The United States has ruled out any imminent revival of the Iranian nuclear deal, issuing a downbeat assessment of long-stalled talks over the 2015 accord as unrest continues to rage across the Islamic republic over the the death of a woman in police custody for allegedly violating the strict dress code for women.

The G20 closed talks in Washington on Thursday without issuing a joint communique, as a growing US-Saudi feud created new tensions in a group already divided over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Five people including an off-duty police officer were shot dead in the North Carolina capital of Raleigh on Thursday, triggering a massive manhunt that shut down part of city for hours and resulted in the arrest of a juvenile suspect, officials said.

Sophisticated spyware poses an “existential” threat to investigative journalists, causing sources to remain silent for fear of being identified, a US media watchdog warned in a report yesterday.