Robert Mueller does not exonerate Donald Trump of obstruction of justice or find that he committed a crime, according to a Justice Department letter.

Representative John Conyers has said he is stepping aside as the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee amid a US congressional investigation into allegations he sexually harassed female staff members.

Republicans in the US have launched new probes into the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton's emails

The director of the FBI has strongly defended the decision not to prosecute Hillary Clinton over her private email set-up.

Australia announced a police investigation into Google today amid accusations the internet giant breached privacy laws, becoming at least the second country to investigate the company's Street View mapping services.

HAWAII may start ignoring repeated requests for proof that President Barack Obama was born there.

A US state legislative committee approved a plan to eliminate the death penalty and use the money to focus on dormant cases after victims’ relatives asked for help finding closure.

PRESIDENT-ELECT Barack Obama’s advisers are quietly crafting a proposal to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned terrorism suspects to the United States to face criminal trials, a plan that would make good on his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison but could require creation of a controversial new system of justice.

John F Kennedy had to prove that a Roman Catholic could win in 1960, but the Catholic factor has not been an issue ever since.

US President George Bush today invoked executive privilege to deny requests by Congress for testimony from two former aides about the firings of US prosecutors.

To prevent school shootings, some South Carolina legislators want more guns on campuses.

Actress Jane Fonda broke her silence over Iraq to join tens of thousands of protesters in Washington in a massive anti-war demonstration that included some members of the military.

The USA Patriot Act was renewed in a cliffhanger vote last night, extending a centrepiece of the President George Bush’s campaign against terror after months of political combat.

Congress approved a one-month extension of the USA Patriot Act and sent it to President George Bush in a pre-Christmas scramble to prevent many of its anti-terrorism provisions from expiring on December 31.

America’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives has voted to shield fast-food chains from lawsuits that blame them for making people fat.

The US Senate has voted to set up a national sex offender database available on the internet and for strict monitoring of high-risk sex offenders for a year after the leave prison.

The US House of Representatives yesterday voted overwhelmingly to extend the USA Patriot Act, America’s main anti-terrorism tool, just hours after television news beamed images of an attempted bombing attack in London.