Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses were without power on Friday after a winter storm dumped sleet and heavy snow on a wide swath of the central United States this week, and more treacherous weather threatened parts of the Plains and New England.
A gunman who held hostages inside a Texas synagogue on Saturday demanded the release of Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani neuroscientist serving an 86-year sentence for trying to kill American officers in Afghanistan.
The United States reported nearly 1 million new coronavirus infections on Monday, the highest daily tally of any country in the world and nearly double the previous U.S. peak set a week ago as the spread of the Omicron variant showed no signs of slowing.
American actress and comedian Betty White, whose career spanned around 79 years, passed away days before her 100th birthday.
The US FDA has approved an eye drop that can improve close-range vision. Developed by the pharmaceutical company Allergan, doctors have touted Vuity as an alternative to reading glasses.
US President Joe Biden on Monday signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law, authorising around $770 billion in military spending, including a 2.7% pay raise for service members, for 2022.
A New York state judge on Friday ordered the New York Times to return internal documents to the conservative activist group Project Veritas, a restriction the newspaper said violates decades of First Amendment protections.
As US has waged a global campaign to block Huawei from supplying state-of-the-art 5G wireless networks, the company and its supporters have dismissed the claims of security risk as lacking evidence.
John F. Kennedy's sole surviving child, who will need Senate confirmation, previously served as ambassador to Japan under president Barack Obama from 2013 to 2017.
Reddit has said that it has confidentially filed for a proposed initial public offering (IPO) with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
US President Joe Biden's wife Jill Biden said being the First Lady is "a little harder than I imagined".
U.S. President Joe Biden said last month that he was considering such a diplomatic boycott to protest China’s human rights record, including what Washington says is genocide against minority Muslims. The administration has been under pressure from activists and members of Congress to skip the games.
A 15-year-old boy killed three fellow high school students and wounded eight other people with a semi-automatic handgun at a school in US' Michigan.
Five US lawmakers met with Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen on Friday morning during their surprise one-day visit intended to reaffirm the US' "rock solid" support for the island.