A US federal judge in Texas blocked the Obama administration from enforcing new actions that were intended to expand restroom access for transgender students across the nation....
Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump, appearing to temper his hard-line approach to tackling immigration, said on Monday that he wants to come up with a plan that is "really fair" to address the millions of undocumented immigrants now in the US....

The killing of a nine-year-old Indian girl from Punjab by her stepmother took a sordid turn on Sunday when authorities arrested her ex-husband and accused him of helping her hide....

More than half of US Republican voters were not pleased with Donald Trump as their nominee in the 2016 presidential race, according to Gallup poll....

Arjun Samdhi Pardas, the 55-year-old step mother, allegedly strangled Ashdeep Kaur on Friday, local media quoted police as saying. Kaur had come to the US only about three months ago from India. ...
According to the Morning Consult poll released on Friday, 38 per cent US voters say that news coverage favoured Clinton, while only 12 per cent believe that same was true for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, Xinhua news agency reported....
According to a study, for heterosexual couples, most Americans still believe in the traditional division of household labour between husbands and wives....
The new rule eliminates the requirement for cab drivers in New York to take an English proficiency exam as the test for a taxi licence is now available in several languages to accommodate non-English-speaking people....
Daniel Rowe, 32, came up to the African-American man and the white woman and, without a word, started stabbing them, CNN quoted Olympia police spokeswoman Laura Wohl as saying on Friday....

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's real estate holdings in the US have at least $650 million in debt - twice the amount than the public filings he has made as part of his bid for the White House, according to an investigative report by the New York Times....