Admiral Lisa Franchetti has 38 years of experience in the US Navy and is the current vice chief of operations. However, her nomination goes against the recommendation of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin

July 2023 will probably be the world’s hottest month in “hundreds, if not thousands, of years,” top Nasa climatologist Gavin Schmidt said Thursday.

The US State Department added nearly 40 people from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua, including former presidents and judges, to a list published on Wednesday of “corrupt and undemocratic actors.”

A US soldier has crossed the inter-Korean border into North Korea, two US officials told Reuters yesterday, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Former US President Donald Trump said yesterday he had received a letter from Special Counsel Jack Smith stating that he is a target of a grand jury investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election result.

The United States would not be surprised if North Korea conducts another nuclear test, following the regime’s launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile this past week, a senior White House official said Sunday.

US climate envoy John Kerry held four hours of talks with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing yesterday, calling for “urgent action” as the two countries revived stalled diplomacy on reducing planet-warming emissions.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has opened a new probe into alleged war crimes in Sudan, its chief prosecutor Karim Khan said Thursday, expressing major concern over escalating violence.

Black women throughout the Americas -- and in particular the United States -- face health care mistreatment due to “systemic racism,” leading to high death rates during childbirth, the United Nations warned Wednesday.

The United States yesterday slapped sanctions on Serbia’s pro-Moscow intelligence chief and former defense minister for alleged corruption and involvement in drug trafficking.

The northeastern United States was inundated yesterday with heavy rain and flooding across several states a day after storms and flash floods washed out highways and killed one person in New York state.

Regional stability and civilian security came up for discussion as senior US diplomat Uzra Zeya held talks with Indian Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra in New Delhi today

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said 10 hours of meetings with senior Chinese officials in recent days were “direct” and “productive”, helping stabilise the superpowers’ often rocky relationship as her four-day Beijing trip ended.

All six people aboard a small jet died when the aircraft crashed and burned in a field near an airport near Los Angeles on Saturday, local and federal authorities said

President Joe Biden announced Friday that the United States has fully destroyed its decades-old stockpiles of chemical weapons, a milestone hailed as completing the elimination around the world of all known stores of the agents of mass death.

The United States announced yesterday that it would send Ukraine widely-banned cluster munitions as part of a security assistance package, a move Ukraine said would have an “extraordinary psycho-emotional impact” on occupying Russian forces.

Ten people were killed and 38 wounded in mass shootings in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Fort Worth ahead of the Fourth of July holiday, officials said, prompting a fresh call from President Joe Biden to pass gun control legislation

A woman missing for more than a week was found alive, having been stuck in the mud in a state park for at least several days, US police in Massachusetts said Tuesday

Mass shootings in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Fort Worth claimed the lives of 10 people ahead of the Fourth of July holiday, officials said, a grim illustration of the United States' decades-long failure to curb gun-fueled violence

At least three people were killed and eight wounded in a mass shooting in Fort Worth, Texas, after a local festival, officials said on Tuesday, in the latest incident of gun violence around the Fourth of July holiday