President says discussion with Iranian counterpart showed ‘basis for resolution’ of dispute over Tehran’s nuclear program Barack Obama and Hassan Rouhani held the first direct talks...
The risk of an accidental financial meltdown has been increased sharply by the latest “kamikaze” tactics of Republican budget negotiations, according to warnings given to Congress...
Dr. Janis M Orlowski of MedStar Washington Hospital Center pleads with Americans to put her trauma center ‘out of business’ The most senior clinician at a...
Rebel Democrats on Monday threw their weight behind a growing campaign for Janet Yellen to take over the US Federal Reserve, as their successful revolt against...
The mayor of Washington DC has bowed to pressure from Walmart and vetoed minimum-wage legislation that would have hampered the supermarket giant’s push into urban America....
Senate foreign relations committee agrees on attacks while ruling out ground troops as president’s push for action against Assad regime gathers momentum in Congress US senators...
Inspector general’s admission undermines fresh insistences from president that breaches of privacy rules were inadvertent US intelligence analysts have deliberately broken rules designed to prevent them...
Barack Obama took aim at the spiralling cost of higher education on Thursday, threatening US universities with a new official ranking system he claimed would help...
The US Sentencing Commission has voted unanimously to begin a sweeping review of federal sentences for drug dealers in a move that could herald long-awaited reductions...
The White House has stepped up condemnation of the interim Egyptian government as its bloody crackdown on protesters put the US under growing pressure to rethink...
Prison terms for all federal drug dealing offences could be cut under a sweeping sentencing review expected to be announced on Thursday that may go much...
The White House shot down calls for a US boycott of the Sochi winter Olympics on Thursday as it tried to draw a line under recent...
Efforts to unravel housing subsidies that fuelled the financial crash reached a milestone on Tuesday as Barack Obama said the national housing recovery was now strong...
Embassy closures ordered in response to ‘most serious threat in years’, says Republican senator Saxby Chambliss The closure of 22 US embassies over an alleged security...
The Obama administration attempted to sidestep questions over the legality of military aid to Egypt on Monday, claiming it was not in its “best interests” to...