The FBI has arrested a man charged with mailing a letter containing the deadly toxin ricin to a judge in Washington, authorities say.

A new poll shows 72 percent of American citizens are highly pessimistic about the current direction in which moral values are headed in the United States.

A major US city has voted to close 50 public schools - the largest mass school closing in history - in a bid to combat a substantial budget deficit.

The international community has failed to hold the United States accountable for its illegal use of assassination drones which are killing innocent people, an analyst says.

Civilian and military attorneys for captives at the notorious US Guantanamo military detention camp have called on the Obama administration to improve conditions there as a hunger strike by inmates enters its 108th day.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has again vowed expanded military support for foreign-backed militant gangs in Syria if “diplomacy” fails to end what he claimed as a civil war in the country.

US President Barack Obama plans to firmly defend the use of terror drones and targeted killing policy as “legal and just” and announce a new bid to transfer long-held Guantanamo captives back to their native lands.

A new opinion poll shows that an overwhelming majority of Americans are opposed to a potential military intervention by the United States in Syria.

Major human rights group Amnesty International (AI) has blasted the US for its growing use of assassination drones as part of the Obama administration’s targeted-killing bid in Muslim nations abroad, saying the measure violates international laws.

Washington has for the first time admitted that four US citizens were killed in CIA assassination drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan in 2011.

US federal workers have walked off their jobs in protest to low wages and benefits in Washington DC.

An FBI agent has shot dead a man during interrogations connected with the Boston Marathon bombings in April.

Thousands of medical workers have staged a strike in the US state of California, delaying emergency care, surgeries and other medical treatment, Press TV reports.

The US Army has suspended the commander of a major training camp for adultery and physical abuse allegations in yet another case of persisting sexual misconduct charges filed against senior American military officers.

The US military has asked the nation’s Congress for over 450 million dollars to upgrade and maintain its notorious prison and torture camp at Guantanamo Bay despite renewed claims by President Barack Obama to shut down the facility.

Nearly 24 hours after a monster tornado tore through a suburb of Oklahoma City, hopes for a rescue of trapped survivors are beginning to wane as more threatening weather moves into the region.

A detainee in the Guantanamo prison has launched a Twitter campaign through his lawyer with the goal of pressuring US President Barack Obama to close the infamous detention facility.

Suicide has become the leading cause of gun fatalities in the United States - far more than homicides or unintended shootings, a study shows.

The US state of Vermont has become the fourth such state to allow doctor-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients who prematurely seek to end their lives.

US President Barack Obama’s administration has been hit with a number of scandals, as Washington struggles to put the pieces back together again, an analyst tells Press TV.

Hundreds of demonstrators marched outside the US Justice Department in Washington to protest the judiciary’s failure to prosecute major American financial institutions that have contributed to the nation’s growing housing crisis, Press TV reports.

Thousand of US healthcare workers in the western State of California have planned a strike to protest major staff and budget cuts in a move that is expected to back up emergency rooms and delay elective surgeries.

The Pentagon has submitted a request of nearly 80 billion dollars for the fiscal year 2014 to the US Congress to cover the cost of war in Afghanistan.

US President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in the central state of Oklahoma after deadly twisters ripped through parts of the state, ordering for federal aid to complement local recovery measures.

A massive tornado has ripped through part of the Central US state of Oklahoma, near its Oklahoma City capital, killing 91 so far, including many elementary school children, and leaving a trail of devastation with winds of up to 200 miles (320 km) per hour.

A recent report has revealed that the rate of suburban poverty in the United States has grown by 64 percent over the past decade, and the pace is more than twice as fast as the poverty rate in urban areas.

The US surveillance and assassination drone programs flout domestic and international laws while disregarding basic human rights, an analyst tells Press TV.

A series of powerful tornadoes have swept through the central US states, killing at least two people and injuring several others.

Two armed men have gunned down a 10-year-old girl and wounded her parents in the US state of California, as the unbridled wave of gun violence continues to plague the United States.

US President Barack Obama intends to use a speech at a military college this week to outline ‘legal framework’ of his counterterrorism policy, including the secret targeted-killing program and the use of assassination drones in Muslim countries.

As the hunger strike protest at US military’s Guantanamo prison camps continues, activist cyber group Anonymous has launched a massive awareness campaign across social networking media, pointing to the persistence of the defiant protest effort by prison inmates for over 100 days.

A former US assassination drone pilot says he quit the force after feeling “numb” about seeing a child and other civilians blown away in his remote bombing of targets in Afghanistan and realizing he has unconsciously developed a desire to kill.

Two special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have been killed in a training accident in the US state of Virginia.

The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press (AP) says the US government’s seizure of phone records was “unconstitutional” and has hurt the agency’s ability to report on the news.

Police officials in the US state of New York say a 21-year-old female student who lost her life during a home invasion robbery had been killed by police gunfire.

Hundreds of people including parents, students and teachers have taken to the streets in Chicago, US, to protest against local education authority's plan to close public schools.

A political analyst says there are ‘obscure laws’ in the United States that allow the president and the military to quell any form of domestic protest, Press TV reports.

The lawyer of an inmate held at the US’s Guantanamo prison has complained about the condition of his client, who was recently injured by gunshots at the notorious jail.

Authorities in the United States have found the source of radioactive leakage at a nuclear power plant in the US state of Michigan.

Leaders of Native American tribes have pulled out of talks with US federal officials to express their outrage over a planned oil pipeline and the contamination of their ancestral lands as a result of the project.