United States
LATEST NEWS FROM UNITED STATES
United States
Tennessee Guard soldiers on Trump-backed task force kill armed man, authorities say
Two Tennessee National Guard soldiers assigned to a Donald Trump-backed anti-crime task force fatally shot an armed man being pursued by Memphis police, focusing attention on a h...
United States
Trump says 500,000 children receive first $1,000 Trump account deposits
President Donald Trump said on Monday the government had deposited the first $1,000 into more than 500,000 "Trump Accounts," a program designed to give newborn Americans a stake i...
United States
Michigan Democrat drops out of US Senate primary
Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow suspended her Democratic campaign for the U.S. Senate on Sunday, turning a three-way primary race in a key battleground state into a head-...
United States
White supremacists' July 4 march counts as free speech in 'messy democracy,' Interior Secretary Burgum says
Federal officials had no reason to stop a white supremacist group's July 4 rally in Washington because of free speech protections, U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said on Sund...
United States
At least eight shot, including four children, in New York, ABC News reports
At least eight people, including four children, were shot and injured late on the U.S. Independence Day holiday in New York City's Coney Island neighbourhood, ABC News said on S...
United States
Paul Pelosi faces hit-and-run charge after striking parked vehicle in California, law enforcement says
Paul Pelosi, husband of former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, faces a misdemeanor hit-and-run charge after a vehicle that he was driving struck a parked ca...
United States
Masked Patriot Front white nationalists stage July 4 march through DC
Hundreds of masked members of the white nationalist group Patriot Front marched through parts of Washington, D.C., on Saturday ahead of Independence Day festivities planned for th...
United States
Eating champion Joey Chestnut defends title but blames heat for lower hot-dog tally
Champion eater Joey Chestnut successfully defended his title on Saturday despite consuming fewer hot dogs than a year earlier.
United States
Trump to mark U.S. 250th anniversary with campaign-style rally on National Mall
U.S. President Donald Trump marks the country's 250th anniversary on Saturday with a political rally on a fenced-off National Mall in Washington, capping a weeks-long celebration t...
United States
Trump extols America, rails at communism in US 250th celebration
U.S. President Donald Trump called on Americans to protect the freedoms the nation's founders envisioned 250 years ago against what he has portrayed as the "communist" threat pose...
United States
Heat wave disrupts Fourth of July events across US, strains power grids
A dangerous heat wave upended Fourth of July celebrations across swaths of the central and eastern U.S. on Friday, forcing officials in the nation's capital and elsewhere to cance...
United States
Trump to visit Mount Rushmore to mark US 250th celebrations
The trip is a prelude to the big event celebrating the anniversary on Saturday.
United States
Tesla driver charged with manslaughter over crash into Texas home
A Texas man has been charged with manslaughter after driving a Tesla operating with its automated driving assistance system into a suburban Houston home, killing a 76-year-old gra...
United States
Weak jobs, declining labor force, could renew Fed debate over state of labor market
A weaker-than-expected jobs report could renew debate at the U.S. Federal Reserve about how to read the labor market at a time when the number of people available to work may also...
United States
US job growth slows sharply in June; labor force participation rate at more than 5-year low
U.S. job growth slowed sharply in June and payroll gains for the prior two months were revised lower, pointing to a cooling labor market and prompting financial markets to dial bac...
United States
How will Americans celebrate the nation's 250th anniversary on July 4?
Many Americans will celebrate the country's 250th anniversary on July 4 by grilling food or going to a parade, but a significant slice doesn't think the holiday is very important...
United States
Progressive surge complicates Democrats’ midterms focus on prices
Republicans have seized on the leftward shift as an attack line.
United States
US designates Ecuador's Chone Killers gang a foreign terrorist group
The U.S. State Department said on Wednesday it had designated the Ecuadorean gang Chone Killers as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, imposing sanctions on a group Washington accu...
United States