Details of the victims come from interviews with families, media and social media accounts

Republican Mike Johnson was returned as speaker of the US House of Representatives on Friday with the crucial backing of incoming president Donald Trump, ending a bitter standoff that threatened to see the 2025 session opening in chaos.

The New York judge presiding over President-elect Donald Trump’s hush money case on Friday set sentencing for 10 days before his January 20 inauguration and said he was not inclined to impose jail time.

Joe Biden was set to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 honourees, bestowing the highest civilian honour in the United States to entertainers, sports stars, politicians and diplomats.

The administration of US President Joe Biden has notified Congress of a planned $8 billion arms sale to Israel, a source familiar with the plan said on Saturday.

Among those to receive honors from the outgoing US president are singer and activist Bono, basketball legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson, longtime fashion editor Anna Wintour, soccer superstar Lionel Messi, actors Denzel Washington and Michael J Fox, and fashion designer Ralph Lauren

US President Joe Biden on Thursday awarded Liz Cheney, a former Republican congresswoman and fierce critic of Donald Trump, with a citizens service medal, after the incoming president warned she “could be in a lot of trouble” once he takes office.

President Joe Biden yesterday announced he has blocked the controversial $14.9 billion sale of US Steel to Japan’s Nippon Steel, citing a strategic need to protect domestic industry.

A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that US regulators overstepped their authority by reinstating “net neutrality” rules governing internet service providers, dealing a blow to the Biden administration.

The disclosures by the US State Department include high-value items such as a $20,000 diamond gifted to First Lady Jill Biden.

A small plane crashed into a commercial building in California on Thursday, killing at least two people and injuring 18 others, police said.

Joe Biden said authorities were investigating any links between the Las Vegas explosion and an attack earlier Wednesday in New Orleans

Authorities had earlier put the toll at 10, but an FBI spokesman told AFP it had risen to 15

A US citizen with an Islamic State flag slammed a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year revellers in New Orleans yesterday, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than 35, officials said.

Jimmy Carter, the earnest Georgia peanut farmer who as US president struggled with a bad economy and the Iran hostage crisis but brokered peace between Israel and Egypt and later received the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work, died at his home in Plains, Georgia on Sunday.

US President Joe Biden announced $2.5 billion in additional security assistance for Ukraine yesterday as he uses his final weeks in office to surge military aid to Kyiv before President-elect Donald Trump takes power.

US President Joe Biden on Sunday declared January 9 a national day of mourning for Jimmy Carter, calling on Americans to visit their places of worship to "pay homage" to the late US leader

US President-elect Donald Trump filed a brief Friday urging the Supreme Court to pause a law that would ban TikTok the day before his January 20 inauguration if it is not sold by its Chinese owner ByteDance.

Nasa’s pioneering Parker Solar Probe made history yesterday, flying closer to the Sun than any other spacecraft with its heat shield exposed to scorching temperatures of more than 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit.

US President Joe Biden yesterday commuted the sentences for 37 out of 40 federal inmates on death row, converting them to life in prison without parole before he hands over power to President-elect Donald Trump on Jan. 20.