Donald Trump chipped away at Hillary Clinton's lead in the presidential race this week, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on

The US administration sought on Friday to contain fallout from a leaked internal memo critical of its Syria policy, but

Hillary and Bill Clinton welcomed the birth Saturday of their second grandchild, gushing that they are "over the moon" about the arrival to

Families of some of the 49 people killed in a massacre at an Orlando gay nightclub will mourn and bury their dead today, a day after President Barack Obama meets survivors and says the United States must act to control gun violence.

More than 50 State Department diplomats signs an internal memo sharply critical of US policy in Syria, calling for military strikes against President Bashar al-Assad's government to stop its persistent violations of a cease-fire in the country's civil war.

US investigators questions the wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, the FBI say, and a law enforcement source says she could face criminal charges if there is evidence of any wrongdoing.

Here are a few excerpts from the survivors of the Orlando shooting who share their nightmarish experience as Omar Mateen shot 50 people dead, in what is said to be the worst mass shooting in US history.

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, ended when divers found the two-year-old's body in murky water.

Reports that Orlando gunman Omar Mateen had been a regular at the gay nightclub he attacked and used gay dating apps have led to speculation that he was motivated by internalised homophobia. But what is it, and could it have anything to do with the worst shooting in recent US history?

The wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at an Orlando gay nightclub could face criminal charges after a federal grand jury was convened to study possible wrongdoing by her, a law enforcement source says.

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

Vigils have been held in Orlando, Florida, and around the world for the victims of Sunday's deadly gun attack on a gay nightclub.

The victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, are being identified by the US authorities and their names released once their families have been told. So far, 36 of the 49 killed have been named: 32 men and four women aged between 19 and 50.

Death toll of a shooting in a gay club in Florida's Orlando rises to 50. The local mayor declares a state of emergency.

CIA chief John Brennan said secret findings of a 2002 congressional investigation into the 9/11 attacks should not be taken as evidence of official Saudi complicity.

The last time Maria Mancia, 42, had seen her son Steve Hernandez was in 1995 when he was just 18 months old. She’d returned to her Rancho Cucamonga, California home one day to find the place ransacked and her child missing.

President Barack Obama made the short but sentimental drive across Washington on Friday to attend his oldest daughter's high school

Singer Christina Grimmie, who starred in NBC's "The Voice," died Friday after being shot at a concert in Orlando, Florida by an unidentified

Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 11 points in the US presidential race, showing little change after she became the presumptive

Singer Christina Grimmie, who had competed on the US TV programme The Voice, has died of her wounds after being shot in Florida, police say.