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Hamas issues a proof-of-life video of US-Israeli Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was abducted on 7 October last year.

On Monday, hundreds of New Yorkers from across the island of Manhattan will find themselves facing a historic prospect: sitting on the jury of the first criminal trial of a former president.

Every night since August 2022, a small crowd has gathered outside the Washington DC Central Jail, through frigid winter nights and under spring rain, to protest against the US justice system.

US President Joe Biden took an aerial tour of the collapsed Baltimore bridge that is blocking a key East Coast shipping lane, and he pledged federal help in rebuilding the span.

Salvage crews worked to lift the first piece of Baltimore's collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge from the water on Saturday to allow barges and tugboats to access the disaster site, US officials say.

NZ "actively looking" for ways to participate in the controversial AUKUS pact, where work is underway on putting AI into submarine-hunting planes and radar into deep space for military targeting, a… Audio

Donald Trump appears to be scrambling for funds to pay a $464m fraud fine. Could the stock market ride to his rescue?

Donald Trump says he feels "sharper now than I did 20 years ago," reacting to recent attacks on his age and verbal gaffes by Republican presidential rival Nikki Haley.

Donald Trump has muscled past his rivals to capture the first 2024 Republican presidential contest in Iowa, according to Edison Research projections.

US regulators have ordered the temporary grounding of 171 Boeing 737 MAX 9 jetliners for safety checks following a cabin panel blowout late Friday that forced an emergency landing.

Bayer has been ordered to pay nearly $3.5 million by a Philadelphia jury that found the company's Roundup weedkiller caused a woman's cancer, the company says.

US President Joe Biden has met Chinese leader Xi Jinping for the first time in a year for talks aimed at easing friction between the two superpowers.

The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah has warned the United States that preventing a regional conflict depended on stopping the Israeli attack on Gaza, saying fighting on the Lebanese front could turn…

A Maryland judge was fatally shot in his driveway, police say, triggering a manhunt for a suspect authorities say was involved in a divorce case heard in the judge's court earlier in the day.

A judge has found Donald Trump and his family business fraudulently inflated the value of his assets, in a major defeat that could hamper the former US president's ability to do business in the state.

Hollywood's writers union said it reached a preliminary labour agreement with major studios on Sunday, a deal expected to end one of two strikes that have halted most film and television production…

More Americans than ever are dying from fentanyl overdoses as the fourth wave of the opioid epidemic crashes through every community, in every corner of the country.

The prosecutor leading the federal election meddling case against Donald Trump has asked a judge to place him under a gag order.

Storm Hilary flooded streets, downed power lines and triggered mudslides across Southern California on Monday, but no US deaths were attributed to the storm and fears of disaster have dissipated.

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