Growing number of politicians from both parties believe action needed to prevent more massacres.

Barack Obama described being greeted by Prince George in his pyjamas as a “slap in the face” during his last speech as US President at the star-studded White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Henry Kissinger once complained that when he wanted to talk to Europe, he never knew who to phone.

The United States says its new round of sanctions against North Korea is just the opening salvo in its response to an unprecedented cyber-attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment.

A possible US national default is looming closer as the partial federal government shutdown continued, rattling markets in the US and overseas.

The political stalemate that partially shut down the US government has worsened with Democrats rejecting the latest Republican effort to negotiate over efforts to derail the health care overhaul.

Proposals to raise hundreds of billions of dollars from US multinational corporations that avert tax on income held overseas forms a key part of US President Barack Obama’s latest budget proposals.

The White House and Republican congressional leaders offered no meaningful proposals for rolling back automatic spending cuts that will slash €64bn from the national budget.

Huddled around a celebratory lunch, the three ladies from Richmond, Virginia, basked in the afterglow of their president’s second inauguration.

US President Barack Obama and the top Republican in Congress appear no closer to giving ground in negotiations aimed at avoiding the December 31 austerity measures of big tax increases and deep spending cuts that threaten to push the nation into a new recession.

The make-up of Congress is unlikely to be changed by the election which is expected to leave Republicans in control of the House of Representatives and Democrats keeping their majority in the Senate.

US President Barack Obama’s campaign has recruited thousands of lawyers to be on standby for this year’s election as legal disputes surrounding the voting process escalate.

PRESIDENT Barack Obama, facing waning confidence among Americans in his economic stewardship, is planing some $300 billion (€213bn) in tax cuts and government spending as part of a job-creating package.

TEA PARTY conservatives scored their biggest political triumph with a debt-ceiling deal that cuts federal spending, but their tactics could risk a voter backlash in the 2012 elections.

STILL-SECRET photos of the dead Osama bin Laden show a precision kill shot above his left eye and images of his body are “gruesome”, a US officials said, as fresh details emerged of the audacious American raid that netted potentially crucial al-Qaida records as well as the body of the global terrorist leader.

A REVITALISED President Barack Obama bluntly told America to reinvent itself and unite to survive in a fast-changing global economy powered by rising giants like India and China.

Republicans captured Democratic governorships in at least 10 states, including some prime presidential battlegrounds, and hoped for even more gains.

John Whitesides reports from Washington ahead of House of Representatives and Senate elections

President Barack Obama threw himself back into the congressional election campaign today in a political blitz against what appears to be an inevitable Republican landslide.

US President Barack Obama is leading his Democratic allies in an all-out campaign to win over wavering lawmakers ahead of a cliffhanger vote tomorrow on his historic healthcare overhaul.

Democrats strengthened their majorities in both houses of Congress, assuring president-elect Barack Obama a stronger hand in enacting his agenda of change.

US Congressional leaders, with advice from their parties’ presidential nominees, scrambled today to find out what changes are needed to sell the failed $700bn (€497bn) financial system bailout to rank-and-file members.

US CONGRESSIONAL leaders agreed late last year to President George W Bush’s funding request for an escalation of covert operations against Iran aimed at destabilising its leadership, according to a report in The New Yorker magazine published online yesterday.

Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed confidence in her presidential prospects yesterday and said she awaits a spirited contest for the 2008 Democratic nomination.

Democrats won control of the US House of Representatives early today after a dozen years of Republican rule in a resounding repudiation of a war, a president and a scandal-scarred Congress.

Republican control of Congress was on the line today in a US election coloured by voters’ dismay over the Iraq war and misbehaviour in Washington.

A Dubai-owned company abruptly abandoned its plan for managing operations at six US ports yesterday, defusing an election-year showdown between President George Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress.

Republicans in the Massachusetts House of Representatives have asked party leaders to disown a colleague who supports killing police officers.