Great news! Mystery amnesia woman identified as American...

Thousands of people tried to help her solve the mystery of her identity. She is a woman whose case sparked a social media hunt after she was found on a US street with amnesia has been identified by her family.

Supreme Court upholds Obamacare...

US Supreme Court upholds key portion of President Barack Obama's healthcare law in a 6-3 decision

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Breaking News: Charleston church shooting suspect captured...

The 21-year-old Dylann Roof, suspected of shooting dead nine people at a black church in the southeastern US city of Charleston has been captured, media reports said few minutes ago.  Dylann Roof was taken into custody in North Carolina, according to CNN and two local television stations.

Breaking news! Charleston church shooting: Police hunt suspected killer...

US police are hunting for a man they suspect of shooting dead nine people at a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Officials released CCTV images of a man they said was white, in his early 20s, and sat in on a bible study meeting for an hour before opening fire.

Hate Crime: Nine reported dead in Charleston Church Shooting...

Nine people have died in a shooting at a historic African-American church in Charleston in the US state of South Carolina, officials say.

City police chief Gregory Mullen said eight of the victims were killed inside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Wednesday evening, while another person died shortly afterwards.

US hacking: Military and intelligence data 'accessed'...

Hackers with suspected links to China appear to have accessed sensitive data on US intelligence and military personnel, American officials say.

Details of a major hack emerged last week, but officials have now given details of a potential second breach.
It is feared that the attack could leave US security personnel or their families open to blackmail.
The agency involved, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), is yet to comment on the reports.

US teen facing 15 years in prison for Internet aid to IS...

A tech-savvy US teen pleaded guilty Thursday to using social media to aid the Islamic State group, a crime punishable by up to 15 years in prison, the Justice Department said. Ali Shukri Amin, 17, a resident of Virginia, admitted to providing advice and encouragement to IS and its supporters,

Source: Employee questioned in New York prison escape...

An employee at the Clinton Correctional Facility in New York is being questioned as a possible accomplice in the escape of two convicted killers over the weekend, a law enforcement source briefed on the investigation confirmed to CNN.

Obama: Europe will continue sanctions on Russia...

President Barack Obama on Monday said he'd convinced European leaders to maintain economic sanctions on Russia, even as U.S. officials concede the measures have done little to curb aggression by separatists in Eastern Ukraine.

G7: Obama did not say strong dollar a problem – US official...

A US official on Monday disputed a French source’s account that President Barack Obama had told his allies at a G7 summit the strong dollar posed a “problem”.

G7: Obama says strong dollar poses ‘problem’...

US President Barack Obama told his allies at a Group of Seven , G7,  summit that the strong dollar posed a “problem”, a French diplomatic source said Monday.  “Obama said yesterday that the strong dollar posed a problem but a strong euro poses a problem too,” the source said. A strong currency weighs on the competitiveness of a country’s industries and exports. Culled from vanguard.

US economy adds 280,000 jobs in May...

The US economy added 280,000 jobs in May, the US Labor Department has said.

Obama to meet Iraq Prime Minister...

US President Barack Obama will meet Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on the sidelines of a weekend Group of Seven summit in Germany,

Vladimir Putin accused the United States...

Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States of meddling in the affairs of soccer's governing body and hinted that its corruption investigation is part of an attempt to take the 2018 World Cup away from his country.

Hillary Clinton is quite different...

 After more than 200 years of contributing pretty much nothing to American democracy other than some inspired ice cream and a buffer against Canadian aggression, Vermont has apparently decided that once a decade it should send out some scrappy, leftist presidential candidate who will take it to the elitist Democratic establishment. This time it’s Bernie Sanders’s turn.

Live anthrax shipped accidentally to S Korea and US labs...

The US military accidentally sent live anthrax samples to as many as nine labs across the country and to a US military base in South Korea, the Pentagon says.

Suspect in killings of wealthy DC family arrested...

An ex-convict accused in the slayings of a wealthy Washington family and their housekeeper was arrested Thursday, a week after authorities said the family was killed and their mansion was set on fire.

Bin Laden 'focused on US to the end', papers show...

In his final years, Osama Bin Laden urged his

followers to remain focused on attacking the US, newly released documents show.

State Dept. plans release of Clinton emails by next January...

The State Department has proposed releasing portions of 55,000 pages of emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton by next January.

The department made the proposal in a federal court filing Monday night, in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by Vice News.