US scientist John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics yesterday for discoveries and inventions in machine learning that paved the way for the artificial intelligence boom.

Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump said Monday that illegal immigrants were bringing “bad genes” into the US.

President Joe Biden and US election rivals Kamala Harris and Donald Trump marked the first anniversary on Monday of Hamas's October 7 attacks on Israel, as the Middle Eastern conflict threatens to weigh on November's presidential vote

US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine yesterday for the discovery of microRNA and its crucial role in how multicellular organisms grow and live.

Kamala Harris slammed her White House rival Donald Trump’s “lies” over reproductive rights Sunday, as both candidates sought an edge in the final month of a deadlocked US presidential election.

Donald Trump defiantly returned Saturday to the site of a campaign rally where an assassin’s bullet almost killed him in July, questioning whether his opponents were responsible and declaring he would “never quit.”

President Joe Biden Friday said he was not confident the US election in November would be peaceful, citing incendiary comments by Republican contender Donald Trump, who still rejects his 2020 defeat.

Former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said former president Donald Trump is not fit to lead the US, urging voters to put country over party as they campaigned together on Thursday.

The United States and India are set to work together on supply chains for critical minerals that are key to clean energy technologies, the US Commerce Department said Thursday in a statement.

As a bitterly contested US election campaign enters its final stretch, misinformation researchers have raised the alarm over threats posed by AI and foreign influence -- but voters appear more concerned about falsehoods from a more familiar source: politicians.

Donald Trump launched a “private criminal effort” to subvert the 2020 US election and should not be shielded by presidential immunity, Special Counsel Jack Smith said in a court filing unsealed on Wednesday.

Trump's version of America is under siege from an "invasion" across its southern border. Girls are "raped and sodomized and murdered" by foreign hordes "poisoning the blood" of the nation. People's pets are on the menu at migrant barbecues.

US vice presidential contenders J D Vance and Tim Walz faced off in a surprisingly civil debate on Tuesday evening, despite tense moments on the hot topics of migration, abortion and the threat of war in the Middle East.

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met his US counterpart Antony Blinken in Washington on Tuesday and held discussions on a number of issues, including the "recent developments in the Indian sub-continent"

The New York Times editorial board on Monday endorsed Kamala Harris, calling the Democrat “the only patriotic choice for president” in the race against Trump.

The death toll from a devastating storm that battered the southeastern United States climbed to at least 130 on Monday, as the disaster became a hot topic in an already bitter election campaign, with the White House angrily refuting claims it had been slow to respond

Western North Carolina residents faced a "post-apocalyptic" landscape on Monday in the wake of hurricane Helene, with hundreds of people still missing and residents struggling amid flooded roads and a lack of basic services

The aftermath of Hurricane Helene interrupted the campaigns of presidential rivals Kamala Harris and Donald Trump on Monday after Harris cut short a campaign trip to fly back to Washington and Trump visited a storm-hit city in the battleground state of Georgia

Donald Trump railed against immigrants in the country illegally in an often-graphic speech in Pennsylvania on Sunday evening, his fourth campaign stop in a month in what has become the presidential campaign’s most hotly contested state.

US President Joe Biden on Sunday approved $567 million in defense support for Taiwan, the White House said, the latest move by the United States to boost the island’s military in the face of rising tensions with China.