Rank-and-file Republicans in the US House of Representatives are tens of millions of dollars short of meeting fund-raising targets set by their own campaign committee, according to figures circulating among the leadership.

The Democratic-controlled US House of Representatives passed a bill bolstering embryonic stem cell research that advocates say shows promise for numerous medical cures.

US President George Bush, delivering the latest in a series of speeches on the war on terrorism, admitted to setbacks in Afghanistan today, particularly in the training of police.

US PRESIDENT George Bush has unapologetically defended his administration’s right to conduct secret spying in the United States as “critical to saving American lives”.

Trying to build support for Iraq war strategy, President George Bush acknowledged today that reconstruction has proceeded with “fits and starts” but spreading economic progress is lifting people’s hopes for a democratic future.

Laying out his second-term agenda, US President George Bush has pledged to confront governments that promote terror and pursue weapons of mass destruction and hailed the success of elections in Iraq as proof of democracy’s march.

The Bush administration will announce today that it wants about €80bn (€61.3bn) more for this year’s costs of fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

President George W Bush, wrapping the themes of his re-election campaign in his State of the Union address, asserted that the US is strengthening its economy and successfully combating terrorism.

A resolution that would give US President George W Bush broad authority to use military force against Iraq gained momentum with Congress in Washington.

The last US airport closed after the terror attack on New York is reopening. Washington's Reagan National Airport will reopen on Thursday under intense security