Secretary of State Antony Blinken promised sustained US support for Ukraine in a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday, despite a row in the US Congress on approving new funding.

Donald Trump secured a resounding win in the first 2024 Republican presidential contest in Iowa on Monday, asserting his command over the party despite facing scores of criminal charges as he seeks an election rematch with President Joe Biden.

Donald Trump's victory Monday in the Iowa caucuses surprised no one, confirming his grip on the Republican Party and offering clues about the campaign ahead

Donald Trump swept to victory Monday in Iowa's caucuses -- the first vote in the US presidential race -- cementing his status as the presumptive Republican standard-bearer to challenge President Joe Biden in November's election

The US military said Sunday its forces shot down a cruise missile fired at an American destroyer warship from Houthi controlled areas of Yemen.

Donald Trump is the overwhelming favourite to push past his rivals and stake an early claim to the Republican presidential nomination when Iowans brave bone-chilling temperatures yesterday to cast the first votes in the 2024 campaign.

The Houthi movement threatened a “strong and effective response” after the United States carried out another strike in Yemen overnight, further ratcheting up tensions as Washington vows to protect shipping from attacks by the Iran-aligned group.

Former US president Donald Trump was ordered to pay nearly USD400,000 in legal costs to the New York Times and multiple journalists

The United States carried out a fresh strike Saturday on a Huthi rebel target in Yemen, US Central Command said, after the Iran-backed militants warned of further attacks on ships in the Red Sea

Former US president Donald Trump was ordered to pay nearly $400,000 in legal costs to the New York Times and multiple journalists Friday after a lawsuit he brought against them was dismissed

Airlines in the United States canceled more than 2,000 flights on Friday after a massive winter storm knocked out power and affected businesses in 12 states ahead of a likely brutal freeze over the weekend

Global economic growth will remain “resilient” this year after a stronger-than-expected 2023, the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday, but work is needed to boost global growth rates above an anemic three percent range in the medium term.

Washington announced new sanctions yesterday on two companies in Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates, moving to crack down on the financial network funding Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met a senior Chinese official in Washington yesterday on the eve of Taiwan’s elections, as the United States seeks to discourage Beijing from taking action against Taipei.

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced Thursday it is launching a safety probe into Boeing following last week’s near-catastrophic incident on an Alaska Airlines-operated 737 MAX.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley repeatedly accused each other of lying in an acrimonious debate that mixed policy with insults as the two candidates battled to emerge as the top alternative to Donald Trump days before the campaign's first votes are cast

Bottled water is up to a hundred times worse than previously thought when it comes to the number of tiny plastic bits it contains, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences said Monday.

Donald Trump warned yesterday that he could prosecute Joe Biden if he returns to the White House, as Washington appeals court judges expressed skepticism at the former US president’s claims that he is immune from criminal charges for trying to overturn the 2020 election.

Now that’s what you call airplane mode -- an iPhone that plummeted 16,000 feet (5,000 metres) from an Alaska Airlines flight landed without a single crack in the screen and even a battery still half-charged.

A US air strike on a rocket launcher late on Monday foiled an attack on Ain al-Asad air base, which hosts US and other international forces in western Iraq, two Iraqi army sources said.