US special forces have “taken off the battlefield” the leader of the Islamic State (IS) group in a raid in northwest Syria, President Joe Biden said on Thursday, adding that the operation had "removed a major terrorist threat".

The mission also defended the movement of Russian troops "on our own soil" and accused the U.S. violating "the principle of the indivisibility of security" with the placement of "military infrastructure close to Russian borders."

Russia has gathered roughly 100,000 troops on Ukraine's border.

The US East Coast is being battered by the first major blizzard to hit the region in four years.

Fears that subs from China, which claims the area, could be first to reach wreckage that plunged from deck of aircraft carrier

If appointed, she would be the first black woman to sit on country’s most powerful bench

After Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg's death gave former President Donald Trump a chance for a last-minute nomination, Democrats ramped up pressure for Breyer to retire. His retiring would eliminate the risk of his seat going to a conservative justice, swaying the court even farther to the right.

The poll was conducted from January 4 to 9 among 507 Black women voters nationwide and has a margin of error of plus or minus 5.04 percent.

US President Joe Biden has affirmed that he will appoint an African-American woman to the top US court for the first time in history.

An outlandish theory suggesting US Vice President Kamala Harris will soon find herself in a new job has been rubbished by experts.

Justice Breyer, who will leave at the end of the term, has championed the court’s independence from politics. The retirement opens the door for the president to deliver on his promise to nominate the court’s first Black woman.

There's a reason African Americans, historically, have been drawn to the Baptist sect.

A winter storm is bringing heavy snow and ice to parts of the US and Canada, with millions under weather warnings.

The congregation was operating a live stream when the situation began

The world first came to know David (l.) and Louise Turpin in January 2018, when one of their teenaged children, one of 13, escaped from their California home to contact the police and report the abuse the kids, aged 2 to 29, had suffered at the hands of their parents. From starvation to sexual abuse to isolation, the 13 Turpin children had been tortured by their parents up until the arrest of David and Louise that same month. The couple pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of torture, child abuse, dependent adult abuse and false imprisonment dating to 2010. David Turpin also pleaded not guilty to performing a lewd act on a child under age 14.

America’s top Covid adviser Anthony Fauci has been caught dissing a senator on a hot mic moments after a bad-tempered exchange.

Last month,Moscow published a draft treaty that would end eastward enlargement of the US-led bloc

A US man has become the first person in the world to get a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig.

Both sides described businesslike talks that didn’t resolve their differences as Russian troops mass near the Ukraine border

Russia would be hit hard with economic sanctions should it intervene in Ukraine. In addition to direct sanctions on Russian entities, penalties could include restrictions on products exported from the USA to Russia and foreign-made products subject to U.S. jurisdiction.