Eighteen people are presumed dead after a huge blast at an explosives factory in Tennessee, officials said Saturday

The White House and the CDC did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment

US President Donald Trump yesterday threatened to hike tariffs on Chinese exports and cancel a meeting with President Xi Jinping in a broadside against Beijing that sent markets and relations between the world’s largest economies into a spiral.

US senators began a long weekend yesterday that guarantees the government shutdown lasting at least 14 days, with both sides more entrenched than ever and the military facing an unprecedented threat to its pay.

President Trump will continue making peace deals, spokesman says

The Treasury announced more than 50 targets aimed at people who help to facilitate Iran's shipments of liquified petroleum gas

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for jailing Chicago’s mayor and the governor of Illinois, both Democrats, as his administration prepared to deploy military troops to the streets of the third-largest US city.

The global economy is doing better than expected, even as it faces prolonged uncertainty and underwhelming medium-term growth prospects, the head of the IMF said yesterday.

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The US Supreme Court was hearing a challenge on Tuesday by a Christian therapist to a Colorado law that bans “conversion therapy” for minors who are questioning their gender identity or sexual orientation.

A busy California airport had no air traffic controllers on Monday evening, the state's governor said, as the effects of a US government shutdown rippled across the country.

The US government shutdown entered its second week yesterday, with no sign of a deal between President Donald Trump’s Republicans and Democrats to end the crisis.

US President Donald Trump authorized deployment of troops to Chicago after a federal agent shot an allegedly armed motorist there on Saturday, while a judge blocked the Republican leader’s attempt to send the military into Portland, another Democratic-run city.

ICE agents fired pepper spray and loaded rubber bullets as part of heated exchanges with protesters on Saturday

Oregon lawsuit claims Trump's deployment violates state rights

Combs apologises to his victims, saying his behavior was "disgusting, shameful and sick."

The US government shutdown appeared likely to stretch into next week as senators yesterday prepared to vote for a fourth time on a funding fix proposed by Donald Trump’s Republicans that has little hope of success.

US forces carried out a strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat off the coast of Venezuela yesterday, killing four people, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.

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G7 finance ministers pledged Wednesday to take aim at those who are continuing to step up purchases of Russian oil, since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine more than three years ago...In a statement after a virtual meeting, officials from the Group of Seven advanced economies -- Britain,