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US President Joe Biden issued some of his sternest criticism yet of Israel's war on Hamas, calling its approach a "mistake" as the country faces a Wednesday court deadline to prove it is not throttling aid to hunger-stricken Gaza. With global outrage over the toll inflicted by the six-month-old war growing, Biden rebuked Israeli Prime…

A recent study has placed Louisiana as the highest-rated American state in prison inmate mortality. Heart disease is also the highest cause of deaths in American prisons.

Eclipse mania was gripping North America on Monday as a breathtaking celestial event offered a rare convergence of commercial and scientific opportunities -- and an excuse to party.

Abortion rights should be left up to US states to decide, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Monday, effectively rejecting a national abortion ban after months of mixed signals on one of the November election's most contentious issues.

A Filipino pastor wanted in the United States for child sex trafficking has demanded a guarantee of no extradition in exchange for his surrender to authorities in the Philippines, where he faces other charges.

The United States and China have agreed to hold "intensive exchanges on balanced growth", the US Treasury Department said in a statement, after two days of talks between Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and her Chinese counterpart He Lifeng in Guangzhou.

Facebook and Instagram giant Meta on Friday said it will begin labeling AI-generated media beginning in May, as it tries to reassure users and governments over the risks of deepfakes.

Six US prisoners have sued authorities to be allowed to see the year's biggest astronomic event, a total solar eclipse on April 8. The inmates argued in a court filing that their right to religious freedom would be violated if the New York state prison service upheld a planned penitentiary lockdown during the eclipse. "Eclipses,…

Three-quarters of El Salvador's gang members have been arrested since President Nayib Bukele declared war on them two years ago, his security minister said Tuesday. The number of detainees now stands at 79,184 and authorities are working to locate the remainder, estimated at around 25,000, Gustavo Villatoro said. Not all of them are in El…

A newly released video shows US police shooting dead a kidnapped teenage girl they had been tasked with rescuing, in a chaotic incident on a busy California highway. Savannah Graziano, 15, was gunned down as one deputy called her away from her gun-toting father, who had killed her mother a day earlier and abducted his…

Former American President, Donald Trump has posted a $175m (£140m) bond in his New York civil fraud case, staving off asset seizures by the state.

US President Joe Biden criticized Tuesday a Florida Supreme Court ruling that paved the way for an "outrageous" ban on abortion after just six weeks of pregnancy. "Yesterday's extreme decision puts desperately needed medical care even further out of reach for millions of women in Florida and across the South," Biden said in a statement.…