It’s 157 years since the US constitution banned chattel slavery – in which one person is the legal property of another – but left in place...
Battles over abortion shifted to state courts on Monday after the US Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to the procedure nationwide, as judges blocked statewide...
Clinics have begun closing in some US states after a Supreme Court ruling on Friday removed American women’s constitutional right to abortion. About half of states...
Women living in about half of all US states could soon lose access to abortion, according to a leaked Supreme Court document on Roe v Wade....
A teenage basketball prodigy has become the first African American to win the US Scripps National Spelling Bee. Zaila Avant-garde, a 14-year-old from New Orleans, Louisiana,...
The outcome of the US presidential election is on a knife edge, with Donald Trump so far doing much better than the pollsters predicted. Both Mr...
At least eight people have died after storms triggered tornadoes and flooding across several southern US states. Tornadoes touched down in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi. On...
Nine months after 20 Democratic candidates gathered for the first debate of the 2020 primary season, it has come down to two candidates – Bernie Sanders...
Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards won the Louisiana governor’s election on Saturday evening after a tightly fought race. The incumbent faced a strong challenge from Republican...
A new drug that contains the herpes virus could be the key to treating advanced stage skin cancer, research has revealed. The drug is a genetically...