AL-QAIDA is targeting Muslim Americans for recruits to terrorism and the community must do more to combat Islamic radicalisation, a lawmaker said as he opened hearings that have been criticised as a witch hunt.

The Democratic-controlled US House of Representatives has passed historic health care legislation to provide medical coverage to millions more Americans.

THE US Congress, prodded by the deadliest shooting rampage in modern American history, has passed legislation to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill.

US TREASURY Secretary Henry Paulson was aiming a shot across Europe’s bow about currency intervention, rather than Japan’s, when he warned that he opposed any such bid to alter relative currency values.

Jubilant Democrats prepared to elect Nancy Pelosi as the first woman to run the US House of Representatives as the party takes control of both chambers of Congress for the first time in 12 years.