The U.S. government has secretly expanded the National Security Agency's warrantless Internet surveillance to search for evidence of what it called "malicious cyberactivity," The New York Times reported Thursday, citing classified documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez held closed-door talks here Thursday evening, in the highest-level meeting between Washington and Havana since they broke off diplomatic relations in 1961.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder warned on Thursday that the overnight shooting of two police officers in Ferguson, Missouri threatened the reforms for policing practice, calling the attack "inexcusable" and "cowardly. "
The Obama administration on Monday imposed sanctions on more Russian officials under a law enacted two years ago following the death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
The white police officer who killed black teenager Michael Brown has resigned from the Ferguson Police Department, his attorney told CNN on Saturday.
The troubled Veterans Affairs Department of the United States is "beginning to see significant changes," U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday at a Veterans Day event at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington.
President Barack Obama on Thursday authorized the United States Department of Defense to call up armed forces to active duty to help combat the spread of Ebola in West Africa.
U.S. stocks dropped sharply at midday Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunging over 200 points, as a slump in durable goods orders and escalating geopolitical risks spooked investors.
The U.S. Commerce Department on Tuesday set final subsidy rates on chlorinated isocyanurates from China, a chemical often used to sanitize water in swimming pools, signaling that it may impose punitive duties on the products.
U.S. stocks reversed earlier gains to turn lower on Thursday, as investors grew cautious before the release of the country's nonfarm payroll report for August on Friday.
New dada from the New York City Health Department show that, from 2010 to 2013, drug overdose deaths in the metropolis increased by 41 percent -- from 8.2 to 11.6 per 100,000 New Yorkers.
Federal autopsy ordered for black teen killed by police in Ferguson
Crews have made their first trip into an underground nuclear waste repository in the U.S. state of New Mexico where a radiation leak had contaminated 21 workers and shut down the facility for nearly seven weeks, U.S. media reported Thursday.
An underground nuclear waste repository in the U.S. state of New Mexico is monitored as radiation was detected earlier on the underground levels of the facility, U.S. media reported Sunday.
The United States is "deeply concerned" by reports that the Chinese consulate-general in San Francisco was damaged in an arson attack, the State Department said Thursday.
U.S. Senate on Monday voted to confirm Jeh Johnson, a former top Pentagon lawyer, to be the secretary of homeland security.
U.S. Treasury Department announced Wednesday that it reached an agreement of 33 million dollars with the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) over sanction violations, as part of a combined 100-million-dollar settlement between the British bank and U.S. financial regulators.
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