A Texas jury punished alt-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones with a $45.2 million judgement, just a day after awarding a family he defamed $4.1 million in damages for falsely claiming that a 2012 US school shooting was a hoax. ...
A McDonald's worker in New York's Brooklyn who was shot point-blank in a spat over cold french fries has died, police said. ...
Employment in the US jumped by much more than expected in the month of July, according to a closely watched report released by the Labour Department. ...
US Democratic Senators were putting the finishing touches to a massive climate and spending package that they expect to pass on a party-line vote on Saturday to deliver a significant victory for President Joe Biden ahead of November's mid-term elections. ...
California hit another grim milestone in the Covid-19 pandemic as the most populous state in the US reached 10 million confirmed cases, according to data released by the state health authorities....
Following renewed skirmishes between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh earlier this week, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on the leaders of both countries to seek "direct dialogue" to resolve the conflict. ...
Canadian authorities have announced a temporary ban on the importation of restricted handguns....
Biden "continues to feel very well" and will continue strict isolation measures given the test result, White House physician Dr. Kevin O'Connor wrote in an update, Xinhua news agency reported....
At least five people were killed and nine others injured in a multi-vehicle crash in Los Angeles, authorities said....
In response to her controversial Taiwan visit, China has imposed unspecified sanctions on Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi "and her immediate family members", the Foreign Ministry in Beijing said on Friday....
