Since 2026 began, 2,318 confirmed cases of the highly contagious illness have been recorded, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This time the US Secret Service is taking no chances. Police and National Guard officers sealed off nearby roads and threw up a major security cordon, although guests passing through faced only a cursory check

A Houthi threat to impose a naval blockade against Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea could widen the Iran war and strain a US military already focused on Tehran’s attacks, current and former officials said.

The United States plans to announce a landmark deal with Saudi Arabia that would help establish a civilian nuclear program in the kingdom, according to media reports yesterday.

The United States said on Tuesday it was sending the first part of a $100 million aid package to Cuba, as the island suffers a deep economic crisis under pressure from Washington.

The United States is acting soon on a host of new tariffs targeting dozens of countries, trade envoy Jamieson Greer said yesterday, with President Donald Trump’s temporary global levy due to expire this week.

US President Donald Trump said Sunday his new Qatari-gifted Air Force One jet needed to be sent off for a month to be “maxed out,” after reports of security concerns on a trip to Turkey.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun in Washington yesterday, a State Department official told AFP, after the latest round of Lebanon-Israel talks wrapped up in Italy.

'We have decided to prosecute Andrew and Tristan Tate for further offences including rape, arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation and offences relating to indecent images of a child,' Malcolm McHaffie, head of CPS's Special Crime Division, said in the statement

The US military yesterday said two of its personnel were killed in Jordan and another was missing after an Iranian attack, while Iran’s supreme leader said Washington would pay for “seeking to incite war” after a seventh straight night of US strikes.

Trump says he will add wildfire pollution costs to existing tariffs on Canadian goods

Firefighters are battling 68 large blazes in 15 states

US President Donald Trump escalated his effort to make election security a central issue in November’s midterm elections, asserting that China interfered in the 2020 presidential campaign despite a US intelligence assessment that found no evidence to support that claim.

More than 250,000 non-US citizens registered to vote in four states in 2020 US election, claims Trump

The Trump administration yesterday moved to tighten the duration of visas for foreign students, cultural exchange visitors and journalists, according to a government notice.

Change is subject to congressional review before taking effect

A record-smashing heat wave was spreading Tuesday from the Mountain West toward the eastern United States and Canada, placing more than 100 million people under heat alerts.

A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton nicknamed “Gus” sold Tuesday for $50.1 million at Sotheby’s in New York, making it the most valuable dinosaur fossil bought at auction after a 10-minute battle between seven bidders.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers shot a driver to death in a coastal town of Maine on Monday, less than a week after an ICE agent in Houston, Texas, shot and killed a man in a traffic stop during a deportation crackdown there.

A former senior commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has issued an unusual direct threat against US President Donald Trump, saying the Islamic Republic is capable of harming him even inside the White House.