US & Canada

The number of unaccompanied children encountered by US border authorities reached nearly 19,000 in March – the highest number on record in the third major surge of families and children arriving from Central America since 2014, with Republicans blaming the Biden Administration for reversing ex-President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. The …

Officers fatally shot an armed suspect outside a burning home, police said. Three people are dead, including a suspected shooter, and two injured following reports of an active shooter and fire at a home in Baltimore County, Maryland, authorities said. Police officers responding to the Woodlawn neighborhood, west of Baltimore, …

The operator of the system, Colonial Pipeline, said it had shut down its 5,500 miles of pipeline, which takes refined gasoline and jet fuel along the East Coast. A cyberattack forced the shutdown of one of the largest pipelines in the United States, in what appeared to be a significant …

Four former Minneapolis police officers face federal civil rights charges for their role in the arrest and murder of George Floyd, according to court documents unsealed on Friday, showing the Justice Department’s tougher stance in such cases. A grand jury issued a three-count indictment charging Derek Chauvin – the white …

The United States will not consent to Israeli annexations in the occupied West Bank for “some time”, preferring to focus on the Israel-UAE normalization deal and wider regional peace efforts, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner said on Monday. The United Arab Emirates has said its move to formalize relations …

A temperature of 54.4 degrees Celsius in the shade at Death Valley in the US state of California on Sunday might be the hottest temperature ever recorded on earth, officials say. A temperature of 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54.4 degrees Celsius) recorded in California’s Death Valley on Sunday by the US …

Declaring it’s “crunch time” for the upcoming election, President Donald Trump zeroed in on Midwest battleground states on Monday with a tough, law and order message to counterprogram former Vice President Joe Biden’s show at the Democrats’ national convention. In Mankato, Minnesota, Trump stepped up his rhetoric against Biden, calling …

A former Central Intelligence Agency officer was arrested and charged with spying for China, the U.S. Justice Department said on Monday. The Justice Department in a statement said Alexander Yuk Ching Ma was arrested on Friday on a charge that he conspired with a relative of his, also a former …

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said on Monday that the Trump administration is willing to support funding for the U.S. Postal Service if it accompanies a package of coronavirus stimulus measures. Speaking to reporters while aboard Air Force One, Meadows added, however, that he has not spoken to …

The Trump administration will allow oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for the first time after decades of controversy and tension over concern drilling for an undetermined amount of oil would massively disrupt the pristine wilderness and tribes in the area. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said …

Washington has added dozens of companies to a list that bars the firms from gaining access to certain US technologies, as part of its ongoing battle against Huawei. Mike Pompeo has urged US allies to adopt similar restrictions. The secretary of state released a press statement on Monday applauding the …

Donald Trump has ridiculed his presidential election rival Joe Biden after the former vice president offered condolences to the president over his brother’s death. Trump’s younger brother, Robert Trump, died on Saturday night aged 71. Trump had met his brother on Friday and said, during a news briefing in the …

At least five people were wounded, including one critically, in a shooting at a flea market in San Antonio on Sunday, police officials said. The gunfire erupted about 11:30 a.m. local time at Mission Market during a dispute on the grounds, according to Police Chief William McManus. “This is the …

Several US states say they are considering suing the administration of President Donald Trump over the changes at the United States Postal Service (USPS). The states say they aim to prevent new operational changes that would slow mail service in the run-up to the presidential election, which will rely heavily …

With visits to four states scheduled, U.S. President Donald Trump plans to inject himself as often as possible this week into Democrats’ carefully choreographed plans to nominate Joe Biden as their presidential candidate. At the same time, Trump’s travel this week, to states likely to prove crucial to whether he …

For the second time in four years, the Democratic presidential primary pitted the expanding progressive movement against an eventually victorious establishment. But as the party gathers virtually this week to nominate Joe Biden for the presidency, the possibility of President Donald Trump’s reelection has become Democrats’ unifying and energizing force. …

A new opinion poll shows that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has a nine percentage-point lead over President Donald Trump nationally with less than three months before the 2020 election. The NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll, released on Sunday, found that 50 percent of registered voters favored Biden while …

U.S. officials have explored potential times and places for a Trump-Putin summit, including next month in New York, said people familiar with discussions. US President Donald Trump has told aides he’d like to hold an in-person meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin before the November election, according to four people …

Shooting in Cincinnati left two people dead and nine others wounded, the deadliest of four shootings late on Saturday and early on Sunday in the city, the police said. In total, four people were killed and 15 wounded in the violence. The shootings were believed to be unrelated, Assistant Chief …

During a press conference at his Bedminster, NJ, property Saturday, US President Trump said that he “considers firing everybody” when asked if he considered firing Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. The comment from the president comes after reports surfaced this week saying that Trump, who has had significant turnover in …