AS MEXICO HUNTS FOR JOAQUN CHAPO GUZMN US OFFER OF HELP GOES UNHEEDED

Officials and Mexican marines, for instance, or between lawyers and judges in Mexico and the United States... READ MORE›

U.S. TOP COURT BACKS OBAMACARE, PRESIDENT SAYS IT'S HERE TO STAY

The Obama administration said 16.4 million previously uninsured people have gained health insurance since the law was enacted... READ MORE›

UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT MOCKS PUTIN IN FRONT OF UNITED NATIONS

On Monday the Ukrainian delegation pointedly left the hall when Russian President Vladimir Putin started speaking... READ MORE›

BRAZILIAN POLICE KILL 11,000 PEOPLE IN FIVE YEARS

Study finds police kill an average of six people a day... READ MORE›

OSCAR PISTORIUS: JUDGE ALLOWS STATE TO APPEAL AGAINST MURDER ACQUITTAL

30am GMT to hear Judge Thokozile Masipa rule whether prosecutors can take their challenge to Oscar Pistorius's conviction and sentence to the supreme court of appeal... READ MORE›

REPUBLICANS WEIGH GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN TO STOP OBAMA ON IMMIGRATION

Thune and Republican Representative Tom Cole said Obama's expected use of executive power on the issue was what fueled partisanship and lack of cooperation... READ MORE›

OBAMA TO MEET PUTIN NEXT WEEK AT UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Islamic State has seized territory in Syria, Russia's only outpost in the Middle East, as the regime of Bashar al-Assad is besieged by a civil war... READ MORE›

GUATEMALA PRESIDENT APPEARS IN COURT AS CONGRESS ACCEPTS RESIGNATION

Government institutions were ordered to remove all official presidential photographs - even before congress had accepted Perez Molina's resignation... READ MORE›

'ONLY WHITE PEOPLE CAN SAVE THEMSELVES FROM RACISM AND WHITE SUPREMACISM'

I was born and raised in South Carolina a state to which my grandmother's family came in the 1600s... READ MORE›

OBAMA DIRECTS US GOVERNMENT TO ACCEPT 10,000 SYRIAN REFUGEES

White House press secretary Josh Earnest made the announcement during Thursday's press briefing... READ MORE›

OBAMA TO MEET WITH PUTIN AT U.N. NEXT WEEK

Obama and Putin have been at odds for months over what the United States calls Russian aggression in Ukraine and Syria... READ MORE›

CHARLESTON SHOOTING: PRESIDENT OBAMA MAKES STATEMENT ON HATE CRIME, RACE AND GUN CONTROL IN AMERICA

President Barack Obama delivered a statement on the shooting in Charleston, South Carolina at the White House... READ MORE›

OVER 60 PERCENT OF REPUBLICANS OPPOSE COURT ON GAY MARRIAGE

Forty-eight percent of independent voters back gay marriage, making it difficult for a conservative Republican to win general election votes on the issue... READ MORE›

U.S. REFINERY STRIKE WIDENS TO INCLUDE NATION'S LARGEST PLANT

A Shell spokesman said the company was disappointed by the Port Arthur walkout and strike notices to the Louisiana plants... READ MORE›

U.S. TOP COURT BACKS OBAMACARE, PRESIDENT SAYS IT'S HERE TO STAY

Congressional Republicans vowed to continue efforts to repeal Obamacare despite appeals from Democrats for them to stop... READ MORE›

JESSICA ENNIS-HILL WANTS NAME REMOVED FROM STAND AT SHEFFIELD UNITED OVER CHED EVANS RETURN

Asked if he would let Evans train, Mr Clegg said I wouldn't, me, personally, Nick Clegg, because ... READ MORE›

AS GLOBAL STEEL CRISIS GRIPS, CHINA SAYS MARCH OUTPUT WAS A RECORD

China's steel exports jumped 30 percent to 9.98 million tonnes in March from a year ago despite a slew of anti-dumping measures globally... READ MORE›

CONFEDERATE FLAG IS STILL FLYING IN SOUTH CAROLINA AFTER 'RACIST' MASSACRE

Charleston shooting Fury over Confederate flag used on Dylann Roof's car still flying over South Carolina state house after 'racist' massacre... READ MORE›

CHINA HITS BACK AT HILLARY CLINTON IN WOMEN'S RIGHTS ROW

US presidential hopeful called President Xi a??shamelessa?? for promoting womena??s rights at UN while persecuting activists at home... READ MORE›

OBAMA TO ADDRESS U.N., MEET WITH PUTIN

President Obama addresses the world Monday on an agenda that ranges from poverty to climate change, Iran to the Islamic State and Ukraine to Cuba... READ MORE›

North Korea has denied involvement and made new threats against the United States should the White House retaliate... READ MORE›

U.S., RUSSIA AGREE SYRIA MUST BE UNITED AND SECULAR

Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday adding that he planned to meet again with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday... READ MORE›

GAY MARRIAGE ASIDE, BUSINESS CASES DOMINATE U.S. HIGH COURT DOCKET

The justices reversed the appeals court in five of six patent cases it heard last term... READ MORE›

GAY COUPLES IN ALABAMA MAKE HISTORY AS CONTROVERSIAL JUDGE FAILS TO STOP SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

But while some judges in Alabama complied with Mr Moore's directive and refused to issue marriage licences, a number of other judges handed them out... READ MORE›

CONNECTICUT'S TOP COURT BANS DEATH PENALTY IN STATE

Connecticut's top court on Thursday ruled that the state could no longer impose the death penalty calling it unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment... READ MORE›

ALASKA ASKS U.S. TOP COURT TO BLOCK GAY MARRIAGE

There are now 29 states in which gay marriage is legal, up from 19 before the Supreme Court's action, with more bans expected to fall in coming weeks... READ MORE›

KENTUCKY CLERK CITES 'GOD'S AUTHORITY' IN DEFYING COURT ORDER TO ISSUE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE CERTIFICATES

Davis stopped issuing all marriage licenses in June after the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage across the nation... READ MORE›

NEW YORK ELECTRONICS STORE SUED FOR DISCRIMINATION BY U.S. GOVERNMENT

Until 2012, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had been monitoring the company's hiring and compensation practices as a result of an earlier discrimination suit... READ MORE›

POPE GETS WARM OBAMA WELCOME BUT U.S. RIFTS OVER IMMIGRATION, RACE, INEQUALITY, CLIMATE ADD CHILL FACTOR

Paul Vallely, author of Pope Francis, The Struggle for the Soul of Catholicism, predicted both warmth and some finger-wagging from the pope... READ MORE›

FRANCIS AT WHITE HOUSE LAUDS OBAMA, EMBRACES GOP TABOOS

WASHINGTON Pope Francis on Wednesday urged the United States to help tackle climate change and touched on other divisive U.S... READ MORE›

U.S.-EXPELLED RUSSIAN 'DIPLOMATS' FLY HOME WITH KIN

Oscow A plane carrying 35 Russian diplomats expelled from the United States over Moscow's alleged interference in the presidential election took off from W... READ MORE›

US STATES, LEERY OF RUSSIA MALWARE, RE-EXAMINE CYBERSECURITY

A Russian state television channel on Saturday sought to discredit reports linking the malware to the Kremlin... READ MORE›

U.S. STATES WARY OF RUSSIAN HACKING LOOK TO BEEF UP CYBERSECURITY

A Russian state television channel on Saturday sought to discredit reports linking the malware to the Kremlin... READ MORE›

TRUMP SOON TO GET SOBERING REALITY CHECK, OBAMA SAYS

President Barack Obama cautioned against dire predictions for Donald Trump's presidency Monday, saying his Republican successor faces a reality check if he... READ MORE›

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. HOUSE TO VOTE ON IRAN SANCTIONS ACT RENEWAL AS SOON AS NOVEMBER

The Iran Sanctions Act was enacted to curb Tehran's support for terrorism and its very dangerous weapons proliferation... READ MORE›

SYRIA CRISIS: US WEIGHS TOUGHER RESPONSE TO RUSSIA

It was the stiffest U.S. warning to the Russians since the Sept. 19 collapse of a truce they jointly brokered... READ MORE›

AS SYRIA CEASE-FIRE FAILS, OBAMA MAY LEAVE SUCCESSOR 'PROBLEM FROM HELL'

Obama has limited the U.S. role to supporting groups fighting Islamic State in northeastern Syria... READ MORE›

AMERICAN PSYCHO SYSTEM A 'CO-WORKER OF GOD'

US President Barack Obama made his eighth - and final - address to the United Nations General Assembly this week... READ MORE›

OBAMA HOPES TO RALLY WORLD SUPPORT AT THE UN FOR WORSENING REFUGEE CRISIS

We need to give them basic succor, said Michel Gabaudan, president of Refugees International, an aid group based in Washington... READ MORE›

U.S. TELLS RUSSIA MILITARY COOPERATION IN SYRIA IS NOT GUARANTEED

The United States warned Russia on Friday that potential military cooperation envisioned by a cease-fire deal in Syria will not happen unless humanitarian... READ MORE›

RUSSIAN PACT WIDENS RIFT BETWEEN KERRY AND PENTAGON

But he said United Nations relief trucks bound for Aleppo, lined up at southern Turkey's border with Syria, had not received assurances of safe travel... READ MORE›

BILL PASSED BY US CONGRESS ALLOWING 9/11 VICTIMS' FAMILIES TO SUE SAUDI ARABIA COULD BE DEFEATED BY PRESIDENTIAL VETO

In April, it was reported that Saudi Arabia had warned the US that it would hit back economically at Washington if the bill proceeded... READ MORE›