The Obama administration said on Wednesday that $400 million in cash paid to Iran soon after the release of five

US government researchers say they have begun their first clinical trial of a Zika vaccine while the Obama administration told lawmakers funds to fight the virus would run out in the coming weeks due to congressional inaction.

Donald Trump has dismissed Barack Obama's time in the White House as a "disaster" after the US president said he was not fit

Traditionally, politicians are seen kissing babies in the streets, not humiliating mothers when a baby starts crying during a

A sharp increase in police killings has cast "a shadow of death" over Rio de Janeiro as it prepares to host the Olympic Games, Amnesty International claim in a report.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has suggested that the November election could be "rigged".

The New York Post yesterday ran a front-page picture of potential first lady Melania Trump naked, prompting criticism on social media

Hillary Clinton on Sunday sharply criticized Donald Trump over his "absolute allegiance" to Russian policy aims, saying it raised both "national security issues" and new doubts about his temperament.

At least one person was killed and four others wounded in a shooting in Austin, Texas early yesterday, with police warning that the

Hillary Clinton's top surrogates are taking aim at rival Donald Trump for criticising the bereaved mother of a Muslim US Army captain, a comment that sparked outrage across the political spectrum on Saturday.

Hillary Clinton's campaign has been losing favorability among America's youth, with the Democratic candidate's popularity dropping 16 percent from a year ago, according to the latest Gallup poll.

Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign has been hacked as part of a larger cyber attack against Democratic Party institutions, US media report. The latest hack follows two data breaches involving the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

The father of a Muslim US soldier killed in Iraq accused Donald Trump of vilifying patriotic American Muslims while "sacrificing nothing" himself, in a steely rebuke that electrified the Democratic convention Thursday.

"I will be a president for Democrats, Republicans and independents. For the struggling, the striving and the

A United Nations humanitarian convoy was ambushed by Boko Haram jihadists Thursday in Nigeria's restive northeast,

With 101 days to go before Americans elect a new president, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were to hit the

"I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman -- not me, not Bill, nobody -- more qualified than Hillary

Donald Trump sensationally challenged Russia on Wednesday to hack into Hillary Clinton's emails as a furious Democratic

US prosecutors yesterday dropped all remaining charges against police in the death of Freddie Gray, an African American whose

Cartoonist Jack Davis, the "long-time legendary" artist on the US magazine Mad, has died at the age of 91. Davis, who also