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The U.S. banking system remains sound and Americans can feel confident that their deposits are safe, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Thursday, but she denied that emergency actions ...

A freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed in western Arizona on Wednesday evening, The New York Times reported, citing a spokesperson for the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office. There were ...

Washington’s top general said on Wednesday the crash of a U.S. surveillance drone over the Black Sea after being intercepted by Russian jets was part of Moscow’s ...

A U.S. judge in Texas on Wednesday heard more than four hours of arguments over a request by anti-abortion groups to ban sales of the abortion pill mifepristone across ...

Moscow warned Washington on Wednesday to keep well away from its air space, after a U.S. drone intercepted by Russian jets crashed into the Black Sea, the first known ...

Democratic and Republican U.S. senators introduced a resolution on Wednesday that could force President Joe Biden’s administration to prepare a report on Saudi Arabia’s human rights record ...

The latest in a series of atmospheric river storms soaked California, bringing another deluge of rain to the already-saturated state, while a Nor’easter swirling over New York and New ...

The U.S. military said a Russian fighter plane clipped the propeller of one of its spy drones and made it crash into the Black Sea in the first such ...

Extreme volatility is rattling US Treasury markets in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank’s (SIVB.O) collapse and investors fear a prolonged bout of gyrations before calm returns to ...

The Pentagon blamed a Russian fighter jet for the crash of a U.S. spy drone into the Black Sea on Tuesday while Moscow denied any collision as the encounter ...

Mexico’s president said his country is safer than the United States, pushing back against U.S. critics of his security record following a deadly kidnapping this month near the ...

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Tuesday that the likelihood that Finland joins the NATO military alliance before Sweden had increased, though Swedish membership was only a matter of ...

At least eight people have died after two fishing boats capsized off the coast of San Diego, California, emergency officials said on Sunday. San Diego Fire-Rescue said in a statement ...

California banking regulators on Friday moved quickly to close startup-focused lender SVB Financial Group SIVB.O, the largest bank failure since the financial crisis, a sudden collapse that prompted the ...

A U.S. judge on Friday rejected Donald Trump’s effort to exclude an “Access Hollywood” tape of him making vulgar comments about women from a defamation lawsuit by the ...

Suspected drug cartel members on Thursday handed over five purported henchmen as a would-be apology for the abduction of four Americans in the border city of Matamoros, according to media ...

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said on Thursday the state will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to allow enforcement of a law banning transgender athletes from female sports ...

A Virginia prosecutor said he would not seek charges against a six-year-old boy who police said shot his first-grade teacher at school earlier this year. Newport News Commonwealth’s Attorney ...

US Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has been hospitalised after tripping and falling at a hotel in Washington on Wednesday, his spokesperson said in a statement. “This evening, Leader McConnell ...

China will deepen its cooperation with Russia to try to challenge the United States despite international condemnationof the invasion of Ukraine, the leaders of U.S. intelligence agencies said on ...

Three Los Angeles police officers were shot and wounded on Wednesday evening but were in stable condition, while the suspect was dead, according to the chief of police and media ...

The Louisville, Kentucky, police force routinely discriminates against Black residents, uses excessive force and conducts illegal searches, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday, following a probe prompted by ...

A U.S. Senate committee backed legislation on Wednesday to repeal two authorizations for past wars in Iraq, paving the way for a possible vote in the full Senate before ...

Five women who said they were denied abortions despite grave risk to their lives have sued the state of Texas, in the first apparent case of pregnant women suing over ...