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

The FBI will not recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server while US secretary of state, the agency’s director James Comey has said.

Democratic White House hopeful Hillary Clinton has said she has been eager to be interviewed with the FBI about her use of a private email server while she was US Secretary of State.

The Orlando massacre at a popular gay nightclub shows no one yet has “found the magic bullet” to prevent Americans from being inspired to violence by jihadist propaganda on the internet, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said as she visited a city still shaken by the shootings.

Tens of thousands of people have held up candles around a lake in the heart of central Orlando as the names were recited of each of the victims who died in the Pulse nightclub massacre.

Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a white man accused of killing nine black parishioners in a racially motivated attack at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, last June, the US Justice Department said.

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US president Barack Obama said yesterday he would meet with US attorney general Loretta Lynch on Monday to discuss ways of reducing gun violence amid reports he intends to take executive action on the issue.

Donald Trump tapped a man to be a senior business adviser to his property empire even after the man’s past involvement in a major Mafia-linked stock fraud scheme had become publicly known.

Investigators in the US believe the woman who carried out Wednesday's gun attack in California with her husband had sworn allegiance to the so-called Islamic State.

There have been more than 350 shootings this year, in which four or more people were wounded or killed in the US, according to the crowd-sourced website shootingtracker.com, which keeps a running tally of gun violence.

The man accused of opening fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado and killing three people said “no more baby parts” while he was being arrested, NBC News and other media reported, citing unidentified law enforcement sources.

Two Libyans thought to be involved in carrying out bombing

The US justice department and five states have finalised a settlement of more than $20bn arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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BP and five Gulf states have announced an $18.7bn (€16.87bn) settlement that resolves years of legal fighting over the environmental and economic damage done by the energy giant’s oil spill in 2010.

A childhood friend of the man accused of shooting dead nine people inside a black church in South Carolina said he told him a few weeks ago he had “a plan”.

A white man suspected of killing nine people in a Bible study group at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, was arrested yesterday. Officials are investigating the attack as a hate crime.

Politicians, military leaders and celebrities from across the US have paid farewell to former Delaware attorney general Beau Biden, whose death at age 46 opened yet another chapter of grief for his father, vice president Joe Biden.

When Chuck Blazer answered the phone at his Trump Tower apartment, his pet macaw Max could often be heard squawking in the background.

President Barack Obama’s nominee for attorney general has defended her office’s handling of a money-laundering investigation involving British bank HSBC.

The last two Americans being held captive by North Korea have returned home.

The sophistication of a global network of thieves who drained cash machines around the globe of $45m (€35m) in mere hours sent ripples through the security world, not merely for the size of the operation and ease with which it was carried out, but also for the threat that more such thefts may be in store.

A former member of Guyana's parliament and another man were convicted of plotting to blow up jet fuel tanks at John F Kennedy International Airport in a plan authorities said was intended to dwarf the September 11 2001 attacks.