A total solar eclipse will cover the sun on Monday, April 8, 2023, for millions of people in North America as it crosses from Mexico into...
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...
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....
At least 100 people were feared dead in Kentucky after a swarm of tornadoes tore a 200-mile path through the US Midwest and South, demolishing homes,...
Twenty-two people have been killed and scores more are missing following flash floods in the US state of Tennessee. Rescue crews are searching for more than...
Police investigating a camper van blast that injured three people in Nashville on Christmas Day have named a suspect after DNA was collected at the scene....
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...
United States President Donald Trump and his predecessor, Barack Obama, have directed blistering barbs at each other during rival rallies. Stumping in Pennsylvania for Democratic White...
Herman Cain, the Republican pizza chain CEO who ran for president in 2012, has died after contracting Covid-19. Mr Cain, 74, was hospitalised after being diagnosed...
Pioneering rock ‘n’ roll singer Little Richard nicknamed The Innovator, The Originator and The Architect of Rock and Roll has died at the age of 87, the...