A judge has ruled that Ugandan security forces cannot detain presidential challenger Bobi Wine inside his home, and rebuked authorities for holding the candidate under house arrest following a disputed election result.

President Joe Biden has directed law enforcement and intelligence officials in his administration to study the threat of domestic violent extremism in the United States.

Dr Anthony Fauci’s highly visible schedule on Thursday, the first full day of President Joe Biden’s term, underscored the new administration’s confidence in the doctor but also the urgency of the moment.

The 10 orders signed by President Biden are aimed at jump starting his national Covid-19 strategy to increase vaccinations and testing

The poem’s very title, The Hill We Climb, suggested both labour and transcendence

US President Joe Biden has given the Oval Office at the White House a slight makeover. Mr Biden revealed the new decor as he invited reporters into his new office to watch him sign a series of executive orders hours after he took office.

The new president signed the orders just hours after taking the oath of office at the Capitol, pivoting quickly from his pared-down inauguration ceremony to enacting his agenda.

Mr Biden, wearing a face mask, said there was “no time to start like today” while seated behind the Resolute Desk with a pile of executive orders

Vice president Kamala Harris drew applause as she entered the chamber to deliver the oath of office to the new Democratic senators just hours after taking her own oath at the Capitol alongside Mr Biden

Residents of a tiny Indian village flocked to a Hindu temple, setting off firecrackers and praying as they watched Kamala Harris, who has strong roots to the village, take her oath of office and become the US vice president.

A full-throated, supremely confident Lady Gaga belted out the national anthem at US President Joe Biden’s inauguration in a very Gaga way – with flamboyance, fashion and passion.

US vice president Kamala Harris has broken the barrier that has kept men at the top ranks of American power for more than two centuries.

Flouting tradition, Donald Trump departed Washington on Wednesday morning ahead of the inauguration rather than accompany his successor to the Capitol.

Joe Biden will become the 46th president of the United States when he swears the oath of office in Washington.

Donald Trump pumped his fist and waved as he departed the White House on Marine One on Wednesday for the last time as US president. “It’s been a great honour, the honour of a lifetime.

Here are some highlights of the actions the President-elect is taking today on climate action, migration and Covid-19

More than 25,000 troops and police have been called to duty.

President Donald Trump trumpeted his administration’s accomplishments and wished his successor luck in a farewell video as he spent his final full day in office preparing to issue a flurry of pardons in a near-deserted White House, surrounded by an ...

A tiny, lush-green Indian village surrounded by rice paddy fields was beaming with joy on Wednesday hours before its descendant, Kamala Harris, takes her oath of office and becomes the US vice president.

Joe Biden will swear the oath of office at noon local time to become the 46th president of the United States, taking the helm of a deeply divided nation and inheriting a confluence of crises arguably greater than any faced by his predecessors.

President-elect Joe Biden has arrived in Washington DC ahead of his inauguration ceremony that will draw a line under four years of Donald Trump’s administration.

Ugandan presidential challenger Bobi Wine has emerged from last week’s disputed election as the country’s most powerful opposition leader after his party won the most seats of any opposition group in the national assembly.

The Arab League chief addressed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a wide-ranging briefing on the crises and conflicts in the Middle East.

Altogether Mr Biden has laid out an ambitious if not always detailed set of plans and promises across the range of public policy.

President-elect Joe Biden plans to unveil a sweeping immigration bill on day one of his administration, hoping to provide an eight-year path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million people living in the US without legal status.

Participants in a rehearsal for President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration were evacuated from the West Front of the Capitol on orders of security officials after a fire in a homeless encampment, officials said.

President Donald Trump and president-elect Joe Biden are already breaking with tradition in failing to travel to the Capitol together for Wednesday’s inauguration and it remains to be seen whether the outgoing president will leave a note in the Oval ...

The opposition party of Ugandan presidential challenger Bobi Wine said that police have prevented top officials from going to their headquarters in the capital, Kampala, as they prepare to launch a legal challenge to free Mr Wine from house arrest.

Kamala Harris will make history when she becomes the US’s first female vice president — and the first black woman and the first woman of South Asian descent to hold that office.

Just before a mob ransacked the US Capitol, two Georgia runoff wins for the Democrats ensured a 50-50 balance in the US Senate.

US defence officials said they are worried about an insider attack or other threat from service members involved in securing President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, prompting the FBI to vet all of the 25,000 National Guard troops coming into ...

Uganda’s opposition party has dismissed the results of the country’s presidential election, dismissing the results as “fraud” and calling for the release of their leader, Bobi Wine, who has allegedly been under house arrest since polling day.

Uganda’s president Yoweri Museveni has won a sixth term in office, election officials have confirmed, despite his top challenger Bobi Wine dismissing the results as “cooked-up” and “fraudulent”.

Uganda’s longtime president Yoweri Museveni has won a sixth term, the country’s electoral commission said, while top opposition challenger Bobi Wine has alleged rigging.

Ugandan opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine says the military has entered and “taken control” of his home and “we are in serious trouble”.

A nationalist politician who was released from prison amid protests that overthrew Kyrgyzstan’s president last year has been elected as his replacement.

Voters in Kyrgyzstan were casting their ballots on Sunday in an early presidential election that will also determine how much power the next leader has. The vote follows the ousting of the previous president in October.

President Donald Trump has said he will not attend his successor Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20 as political rivals sought to oust the incumbent president before the scheduled transition.

The violent insurrection at the US Capitol has intensified scrutiny over security at the inauguration ceremony for president-elect Joe Biden. The event has already been reshaped by the pandemic and the prospect that his predecessor may not attend.

Democratic leaders of the House Appropriations Committee paid tribute to the life of officer Brian D Sicknick, who died on Thursday due to injuries sustained while on-duty at the Capitol.

President Donald Trump has condemned supporters who rioted at the US Capitol and conceded to President-elect Joe Biden in a new video message.

Ms Pelosi said at the Capitol: “The president of the United States incited an armed insurrection against America.”

President Donald Trump for the first time acknowledged his defeat in the November 3 election and announced there would be an “orderly transition” on January 20 but there were calls from both sides of the political divide for him to be removed from ...

Congress certified the Democrat’s electoral college win after a violent throng of pro-Trump rioters spent hours running rampant through the Capitol.

The Senate has resumed debating the Republican challenge against Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential election victory, more than six hours after pro-Trump mobs attacked the Capitol and forced lawmakers to flee.

Democrats have won both Georgia Senate seats — and with them, the US Senate majority — as the final votes were counted in the state.

Republican politicians have mounted their first official challenge to Joe Biden’s presidential election win, objecting to state results from Arizona as they took up Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the results in an extraordinary joint session of ...

President-elect Joe Biden has selected Merrick Garland, a federal appeals court judge who in 2016 was snubbed by Republicans for a seat on the Supreme Court, as his attorney general, sources said.

President Donald Trump’s extraordinary effort to overturn the US presidential election result is going before Congress as legislators convene for a joint session to confirm the Electoral College vote won by Joe Biden.

Democrat Raphael Warnock has won one of Georgia’s two US Senate runoffs, becoming the first black senator in his state’s history and putting the Senate majority within the Democrats’ reach.