Step aside, Nidge — the kids have won.

The Statue of Liberty has reopened to the public after New York state agreed to shoulder the costs of running the site during the US federal government shutdown.

The US federal government and six states have taken legal action aimed at blocking a gigantic merger between American Airlines and US Airways.

So, there it is: Lance Armstrong has admitted to Oprah Winfrey that his dominance of cycling from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s was tainted — to put it mildly — by performance-enhancing drugs.

The chance to end a sex trade which places 1,000 women for sale on the internet has arrived, writes Denise Charlton

US stocks closed nearly unchanged last night after a day of uneven trading plagued by investors’ fears about the approaching “fiscal cliff”.

R. Kelly has cancelled a number of public events following a “health emergency”.

THE 2012 foreign investment harvest is starting to look pretty good.

Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, who has emerged as Mr Romney’s leading challenger in the Republican presidential race, clashed over the US federal government’s power in a high-stakes debate that might have been the last in the roller-coaster campaign to challenge President Barack Obama.

The man who shot President Ronald Reagan appeared fixated during a visit to a bookshop last year on a bookshelf bearing titles on presidential assassinations and Reagan’s presidency, according to testimony at a court hearing.

THE US federal government moved closer to a shutdown as House of Representative speaker John Boehner and president Barack Obama failed to reach a deal to keep the government running.

Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff calls new regulatory reform enacted after the recent national financial crises “a joke” and describes the US federal government as a Ponzi scheme.

The US federal government proposed listing two seals that depend on sea ice as threatened species because of the projected loss of ice from climate warming.

CORPSES, cancer patients and diseased lungs: These are some of the images the US federal government plans for larger, graphic warning labels for cigarette packages.

THEY left Ireland for the US last week with a possible cure for their critically ill daughter within reach.

THE US federal government is in store for at least eight more years of budget deficits, including a record $480 billion shortfall in 2004, congressional budget, according to analysts.

The US federal Government has re-issued a bounty on information leading to the capture of Bin Laden.

The US federal Government has urged all Nuclear and chemical production plants to put their security on "high alert".