United States

Two Americans held by the Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have been exchanged for an Afghan imprisoned in the US on drug trafficking and terrorism...

US President Donald Trump issued pardons or commutations for more than 1,500 people convicted or charged in connection with the US Capitol riot four...

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to begin the process of withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization (WHO). "Oooh, that's...

Migrant shelters in Tijuana - located across the border from San Diego, California - are bracing for a possible surge in the influx of...

Donald Trump has officially become the 47th president of the United States. Mr Trump won the election in November 2024. In America there is then a delay of...

Donald Trump has officially become the 47th president of the United States. In a special ceremony called an inauguration, President Trump took over from Joe Biden...

Raids to detain and deport migrants living in the US without permission are set to begin on the first full day of President-elect Donald...

President-elect Donald Trump will quickly implement executive actions on immigration, energy policy and federal government operations to check off dozens of campaign policy priorities.Trump on...

TikTok has gone offline in the US, hours before a new law banning the platform was due to come into effect.A message appearing on...

President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration will take place inside the U.S. Capitol on Monday rather than outdoors because of severe cold, the first time in...

Busta Rhymes is in legal trouble. The "Break Ya Neck" rapper, 52, was arrested in northwestern Brooklyn and charged with assault in the third degree on...

The Supreme Court seemed inclined on Friday to uphold a law that would force a sale or ban the popular short-video app TikTok in the United...

Donald Trump has said that a meeting is being arranged between himself and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The US president-elect gave no timeline for when...

Wildfires are tearing through Los Angeles, forcing thousands to flee to safety and destroying modest homes and vast mansions. As the fires rage on, powerful...

US aviation giant Boeing has told BBC News it is donating $1m (£812,600) to an inauguration fund for President-elect Donald Trump. Google and Microsoft have...

The US has announced an increased $25m (£20.4m) reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on the day he...

The US Supreme Court has rejected President-elect Donald Trump's last-minute bid to halt his sentencing on Friday in the criminal hush-money case.Trump had urged...

Los Angeles firefighters are battling a series of rapidly spreading wildfires, leaving thousands of residents forced to flee their homes.As the fires continue to...

Two people were found dead in the wheel well of a JetBlue plane from New York City after it landed at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International...

France has said the European Union will not allow other nations to attack its "sovereign borders" after US President-Elect Donald Trump refused to rule...

A registered nurse has been arrested and charged with malicious wounding and felony child abuse in the USA. Henrico County Police announced Friday that Erin...

A Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on Wednesday, leaving one person dead and seven others with minor injuries.The...

Police are investigating after a Tesla Cybertruck filled with fuel canisters and firework mortars exploded outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The driver...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has paid glowing tribute to former United States(U.S) President Jimmy Carter following his death.In a statement, Akufo-Addo eulogised Mr Carter as...

Joe Biden and Donald Trump have led tributes to former US President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter, who has died aged 100.Carter,...

Former US President Jimmy Carter has died aged 100, the centre he founded has confirmed. The former peanut farmer lived longer than any President in...

A California man who was planning to propose to his girlfriend on New Year's Eve died during a Christmas Day house fire after searching...

American Airlines has resumed flights after suspending its services for around an hour on Tuesday due to a technical issue that impacted the systems...

American Airlines on Tuesday grounded all its flights in the U.S. due to an unspecified technical issue, according to the company and a regulatory...

Former US President Bill Clinton has been admitted to a hospital after developing a fever, according to a spokesman for the Democrat."He remains in...

The immigration officers sat in their vehicles before dawn near a two-story building. A New York subway line rumbled overhead, and then an officer’s voice...

A man has been charged with murder in connection with the death of a woman who was set on fire on a subway train...

US President, Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death row inmates, switching their penalty to life in prison...

A man has been arrested in New York in connection with the death of a woman who was set on fire on a subway...

US immigration authorities last year deported the largest number of undocumented immigrants in nearly a decade, surpassing the record of Donald Trump's first term...

An American citizen has pleaded guilty to helping run what has been described as the first known secret police station in the US on...

An American Judge in the Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville, Thomas A. Varlan, has sentenced two Ghanaian nationals to prison for internet fraud...

The BBC has complained to Apple after the tech giant's new iPhone feature generated a false headline about a high-profile murder in the United...

Abiola Kayode, a 37-year-old Nigerian national listed on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Most Wanted Cyber Criminal List, has been extradited from Ghana...

Elon Musk is nearly $200 billion richer than Jeff Bezos, and personally worth more than Costco, after adding $63 billion to his fortune in...