The US has imposed new sanctions targeting North Korea's weapons program, following Pyongyang's renewed ballistic missile launches.

Tearing into homeland security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas during a heated exchange at a Senate hearing on Wednesday, Senator Rand Paul said the US has no right to tell its citizens what the truth is.

Afghan refugees held for months in the UAE after fleeing Afghanistan following the hasty exit of US forces last August continue protests over American failure to resettle them in the US as pledged.

As the Omicron variant of Covid-19 sweeps the United States, empty supermarket shelves have become the latest sign of the pandemic's ongoing disruption to the country's supply chains.

The United Nations launches more than $5 billion funding appeal for Afghanistan to avert a major humanitarian crisis in the South Asian country.

The US government could fall behind on its bills this month - and even default on its debt - if Congress doesn't raise a $28.9 trillion cap on government borrowing, a failure that could trigger economic calamity and panic on global financial markets.

Following the United States’ seizure of tens of Iranian and regional media websites including that of Press TV, media activists have questioned the US’s claim of an advocate for freedom of expression.