The White House has publicly released the financial disclosures of top officials in the Trump administration.

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The White House has barred several media outlets from a press conference held by President Trump's Press Secretary, Sean Spicer.

Donald Trump has used his first presidential appearance before the largest gathering of conservative activists in the US to sharply escalate his criticisms of the news media.

At least three tornadoes have touched down in southern Louisiana, ripping houses from their foundations, downing electricity lines and leaving 10,000 homes without power.

US President Donald Trump will host Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Mar-a-Lago this weekend.

Former Russian press minister Mikhail Lesin, who was found dead last year in a Washington hotel room, died of blunt-force injuries to the head, US authorities said.

Siri can be a useful fountain of knowledge, but she doesn’t have all the answers as her interjection during a White House press briefing showed.

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The US National Security Agency lost its authority to collect phone records in bulk, with intelligence officials warning it could jeopardise Americans’ safety.

Guns would fall silent, heavy weapons would pull back from the front and Ukraine would trade broad autonomy for the east to get back control of its Russian border by the end of 2015 under a peace deal hammered out in negotiations between Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany.

House of Representatives Republican leaders have offered President Barack Obama a three-month reprieve to a looming, market-rattling debt crisis.

Forty years ago, a failed burglary in Washington culminated in a giant political scandal that led to the fall of Richard Nixon.

Whitney Houston's body arrived in her home state of New Jersey today as her family discussed plans for a funeral at one of America's busiest entertainment venues.

The Pentagon has says the military is adequately prepared for tomorrow’s official lifting of the legal ban on openly gay officers serving.

The White House said tonight that the “legitimate grievances” of the Egyptian people must be addressed immediately by the Egyptian government and violence is not the right response.

A US veteran who kept loaded guns at his bedside has been arrested for threatening to kill President Barack Obama in a murder-suicide.

US President Barack Obama has received 12 stitches in his lip after being injured during a basketball game today.

The Pentagon demanded today that a website that solicits leaked government secrets stop publishing more secret military documents and pull back tens of thousands of secret Afghan war logs already posted on the internet.

Barack Obama consoled relatives of the 11 workers killed in the Gulf oil spill disaster, acknowledging their "unimaginable grief" and assuring them that he would stand with them.

US President Barack Obama welcomed leaders of 47 countries to a Washington summit on nuclear security today and delivered a stark warning about the dangers of nuclear weapons falling into the wrong hands.

AN immigration hearing for President Barack Obama’s African aunt ended yesterday without an immediate decision in her second bid for asylum in the United States.

An environmental adviser to US president Barack Obama has resigned amid controversy over his past inflammatory statements, the White House said today.

NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong Il has issued a “special pardon” for two American journalists and ordered their release at former US president Bill Clinton’s request, North Korean state media reported yesterday.

US President Barack Obama has restarted a Bush-era military trial system for a small number of Guantanamo detainees, but with new legal protections for suspects.

As General Motors set out proposals to slash jobs, close plants and scrap the famous Pontiac brand, new agreements fell into place between Chrysler and its unions in the United States and Canada.

At the end of only his second full week in office, US President Barack Obama’s administration ran up against Washington’s unforgiving politics, as two key government nominees withdrew under a cloud of tax problems.

The Bush administration said today it was ready to step in and prevent the US car industry from collapsing after the Senate refused to pass a rescue bill endorsed by President George Bush and congressional Democrats.

A deal with the US Congress to help America’s failing car industry will “very likely” be reached, the White House said today.

The White House, under fire from Democrats and Republicans alike, has defended giving billions of bail-out dollars to banks that plan to reward shareholders and executives or even buy other banks.

The Bush administration warned of “real consequences” for Iraq if it rejects a newly negotiated security pact.

US president Bush attempted to ease America's fears over the economy today in a set-piece speech that was short on specifics.

The US federal takeover of troubled US mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could have been prevented if Congress had acted on its recommendations, the White House said today.

US vice president Dick Cheney’s office pushed to delete references about the consequences of climate change on public health from congressional testimony, in a bid to play down the effects of global warming, a former environment expert claims.

An aircraft today violated the restricted airspace around central Washington, prompting US security officials to temporarily raise the terror threat level from yellow to orange.

The White House said today US president George Bush would veto legislation that would have barred the CIA from using waterboarding, a technique that simulates drowning, and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects.

CIA director Michael Hayden, testifying in secret before the US Senate Intelligence Committee, failed to answer key questions about the destruction of secret videotapes showing harsh interrogation of terror suspects, the panel’s chairman said.

The extreme interrogation method used on a top al-Qaida captive was approved at the top levels of the US government, a former CIA agent claimed today.

Fidel Castro accused US President George Bush of plotting a new conquest of Cuba, in an essay published a day before the White House was to announce new plans to draw Cuba away from communism.

US PRESIDENT George W Bush has backed Hillary Clinton to win the Democrat nomination for presidential candidate in next year’s elections.

US President George Bush will have a routine colonoscopy today and temporarily hand presidential powers to Vice President Dick Cheney, the White House said.

A radical and violent segment of the Muslim population in the West is expanding, according to a new National Intelligence Estimate on threats to the United States.

The White House said today that a landmark agreement with North Korea was “a very important first step” toward the nuclear disarmament of North Korea and the Korean peninsula.

Iraqi authorities have reported the arrests of two guards and an official who supervised Saddam Hussein's hanging and said the guard force was infiltrated by outsiders who taunted the former leader and shot the video showing his body dangling at the end of a rope.