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Alarm over the Zika virus spread today, as public health officials investigated a report that an American had been infected through sexual contact and Brazil said 4,074 cases of infants with severe birth defects could be linked to the virus.
US President Barack Obama pushed Cuba to improve its record on democracy and human rights as he met with President Raul Castro on a historic visit to the Communist island on Monday, but Castro responded by decrying US "double standards".
Cuba's President Raúl Castro, speaking at the United Nations for the first time, hailed renewed diplomatic ties with the United States as "major progress" but slammed a US trade embargo as the top obstacle to Cuba's economic development.
The Union of Southamerican Nations (UNASUR) has urged the US government to abrogate the decree that last week declared Venezuela as a threat to the country's national security and called for dialogue between Washington and Caracas.
The US House of Representatives passed legislation today, to impose sanctions on Venezuelans responsible for human rights abuses during anti-government protests, despite Obama administration worries that they could threaten talks seeking to ease the unrest.
A retired Venezuelan general wanted in the United States over drug-trafficking accusations remained in jail on the Caribbean island of Aruba over the weekend awaiting a formal extradition request, his lawyer said on Saturday.
Cuba has arrested four Miami-based Cuban exiles suspected of planning attacks on military installations with the goal of promoting anti-government violence on the island, the interior ministry said.
The US Geological Survey put the quake epicenter in the western Mexican state of Guerrero at a depth of 14.9 miles just inland from the Pacific Coast. No tsunami alert was triggered.
Uruguay President Jose Mujica, meeting at the White House with President Barack Obama, today urged the United States to become bilingual, joking that immigrants from Latin America would fill the country with Spanish speakers.
The United States is working with Colombia and other countries to see if mediation can bring opposing sides in Venezuela together for talks on ending unrest there, US Secretary of State John Kerry said today.
Uruguay has agreed with the United States to accept some prisoners held in the much-criticized detention center at the US military base of Guantanamo Bay, President Jose Mujica said.
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff has praised the US for its decision to ease control over the Internet and called for a more democratic, transparent network following the NSA spying scandal.
"CNN has the objective of forcing a civil war in order to provoke the 'gringo' [USA] army against our fatherland. Alert the entire country, alert," the head of state warned, in a live television appearance this evening.
US federal prosecutors in New York plan to seek the extradition of Mexico's most wanted man, drug cartel kingpin Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, to the United States, the US Attorney's office said today.
An executive summary published today by the US State Department describes Venezuela's political power as "concentrated in a single party with an authoritarian executive", and reported human rights abuses, including corruption, freedom of speech restrictions, and political persecutions amid others.
Mexican police have found dangerous radioactive medical material stolen by thieves that the United Nations said could provide an ingredient for a "dirty bomb," the country's national nuclear safety commission CNSNS said.
The execution of Mexican citizen Edgar Tamayo by lethal injection in Texas sets a bad precedent for upholding international law, Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto has said.
Venezuela has ordered three US diplomats to leave the country, accusing them of recruiting students to lead protests that were the OPEC nation's most serious violence since President Nicolas Maduro's April election and in which three people were killed.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff today criticized the United States for spying and said Brazil would adopt legislation and technology to protect it from illegal interception of communications.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said today he was expelling the top US diplomat in the South American nation and two others, accusing them of meeting with opposition leaders and encouraging "acts of sabotage" against his country.
Cuba is shutting down nearly all of its consular services in the United States until further notice after it said no bank would handle its business, the government announced, blaming the situation on the longstanding US economic embargo.
Mexico said it would seek to void a court decision that freed a Mexican drug boss imprisoned for ordering the 1985 torture and murder of a US drug enforcement agent, a ruling that has angered the United States.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, angered by a recent report that the US government spied on her communications, said today that President Barack Obama had taken responsibility for what happened and that she may proceed with a planned visit to Washington next month.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has called off plans for a state visit to Washington because of revelations that the US spied on her personal communications and those of other Brazilians.
Venezuela has still not received a formal response to its offer of asylum to former US spy contractor Edward Snowden, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua told a news agency today.
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was attending today's Mercosur Summit in Montevideo, Uruguay's capital city. US illegal spying programmes in regional countries and a statement condemning the Evo Morales' plane spat, on the presidents' agenda.
Secretary of State John Kerry promised strong US backing for peace talks aimed at ending Colombia's half century of conflict, calling the country a success story in a world where many states have failed or are failing.
Brazil's telecommunications agency said it would investigate whether local operators had violated customer privacy rules in alleged surveillance of Brazilian telecommunications data by US spy agencies.
Colombia expressed concern early today after revelations the United States had spied on the Andean nation, its closest military ally in Latin America, and called for an explanation.
US Vice President Joe Biden began a three-day visit to Brazil today to meet government and business leaders as Washington gears up for a planned state visit by President Dilma Rousseff later this year.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said that Edward Snowden, the former US spy agency contractor, deserved the "world's protection" for divulging details of Washington's spy program.
Bolivian President Evo Morales arrived home to a hero's welcome late yesterday, saying some European countries' refusal to let his plane enter their airspace because of suspicion it carried fugitive US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden was a provocation aimed at all of South America.
Venezuela has detained an American citizen it says was financing opposition student demonstrations after this month's disputed presidential election, the latest in a flurry of accusations over last week's post-vote violence.
Bolivian President Evo Morales expelled a US development agency from his country, marking the latest confrontation between Washington and a bloc of left-wing governments in Latin America.
Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro asked the US to "respect" his country, and warned about the raise of an extreme right in the Caribbean nation but said he'll do everything possible "in order to stop the appearance of a new Pinochet."
The President of Bolivia Evo Morales affirmed that he is "almost certain" that Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez died because the "Empire" (the United States) poisoned him ratifying the plot theory held by Venezuela's acting president Nicolás Maduro.
President Dilma Rousseff will make the first formal state visit by a Brazilian leader to the United States in nearly two decades, a diplomatic breakthrough for an emerging power that has clashed with Washington but is hungry for closer ties and recognition of its growing prestige.
Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega harshly criticized the US and Europe over their decision to stall a reform of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), currently being demanded by many developing countries.
Illegal drug use globally is still rising despite a decades-long battle against organized crime, and producer and consumer nations need to come up with new strategies, Mexico and four Central American countries said.
Mexican federal police have captured suspected murderer, rapist and drug gang member Joe Luis Saenz, one of the 10 most wanted fugitives on the FBI's list, the government said today.
Honduras has removed its ambassador to Colombia amid reports his personal aide was involved in a wild party held at the embassy of Honduras in Bogota which, according to media, was attended by prostitutes and where cell phones and computers were stolen.
Two US Embassy employees were shot at and wounded by Mexican police after they were caught up in a police chase on the outskirts of the capital, Mexico's Navy said.
Venezuela today rejected as unsubstantiated a new US report that accused President Hugo Chavez's government of failing to fight the drugs trade.
Tropical Storm Rafael formed over the eastern Caribbean Sea, triggering storm warnings for Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and several other islands, the US National Hurricane Center said.
The bodies of two US climbers were located today after they apparently suffered a fall on the peak of Mount Palcaraju, high in Peru's Andes, local media reported.
Brazil and Ecuador have agreed to help Haiti set up a new army that will eventually replace the UN peacekeeping force that has protected the impoverished Caribbean nation on and off since 1994, officials say.
A US citizen arrested in Venezuela while entering illegally from Colombia is a former US Marine and is refusing to explain himself under interrogation, President Hugo Chávez said.
The bodies of 23 people were found hanging from a bridge or dismembered in ice boxes and garbage bags in northeastern Mexico, in an escalation of brutal violence involving rivel drug gangs on the US border.
Cuban President Raúl Castro's daughter is scheduled to visit California next week to speak at a conference of experts on Latin America during a rare US trip by a member of Cuba's ruling family.
Peru's top court has ruled Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot can be extradited to the United States in connection with the 2005 disappearance in Aruba of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, but only after serving a Peruvian prison sentence for murder.
Cuba said it was "unacceptable" that it will not be invited to an upcoming hemispheric summit in Colombia and blamed the United States for insisting that Cuba be excluded.
Colombian troops killed 35 leftist FARC rebels in a remote jungle region, President Juan Manuel Santos said, the second blow to the drug-funded group in less than a week.
The US-Colombia free trade agreement will enter into force next month, far earlier than expected, as a result of what the Obama administration called "historic" progress for Colombian worker protections and human rights.
A Cuban spy convicted of infiltrating a Cuban exile organization in Florida was released from a US jail after serving 13 years of his 15-year-sentence, his lawyer said.
US tobacco company Philip Morris International (PMI) announced today through a communiqué, the closure of their factory in Uruguay, due to the pressing demand placed on them by Uruguay's anti-tobacco laws. The company announced that they will transfer the local production to neighbouring country, Argentina.
The presidents of Venezuela and Colombia announced the capture of one of the region's most-wanted drug traffickers and touted it as evidence that their ideologically opposed governments were united against crime.
US President Barack Obama suggested that acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Roberta Jacobson, be ratified in office, the White House announced.
The United States is ready to change its stern policy toward Cuba but has not seen steps from Havana that would justify lifting its embargo, President Barack Obama said today.
Former Cuban President Fidel Castro lashed out at US President Barack Obama today for suggesting bilateral relations could improve if Cuba became more democratic, and he said the communist nation would not bow to US pressure.
Future prospects for improving US-Cuba ties will be at stake when Cuba's highest court hears an appeal on Friday from jailed US aid contractor Alan Gross against his 15-year sentence for crimes against the state.
Peru has temporarily halted the eradication of coca plants used to make cocaine as it works to redesign its anti-drug programs, the country's interior ministry said.
New York City prepared to evacuate coastal areas and rescue stranded New Yorkers with a fleet of police boats in case the city gets socked by Hurricane Irene this weekend.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed strong support for efforts to resolve political and safety challenges in Honduras, divided by the aftermath of a coup in 2009.
Mexico extradited the once-powerful drug lord Benjamin Arellano Felix to the United States in a renewed sign of US-Mexican cooperation in the drug fight.
Colombia took another step toward US approval of a long-delayed free trade agreement with the completion of several labor and judicial reforms aimed at reducing opposition to the pact.
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff said that Barak Obama's visit this weekend strongly consolidates the perception that Brazil "could be an important partner" for the United States, during a press interview.
Former President Jimmy Carter, returning to Cuba for the first time since a groundbreaking 2002 trip, began a three-day visit on Monday to discuss troubled US-Cuba relations and is likely to talk about the fate of imprisoned US aid contractor Alan Gross.
Human rights saw a significant improvement in Colombia in 2010 after Juan Manuel Santos took office, according to the annual report on the subject from the US Department of State.
US President Barack Obama plans to visit Brazil in March in a sign that ties between the two countries are substantially improving after a year of tension over Iran, Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper reports.
The United States and Brazil will work together to pressure China on its undervalued currency, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner indicated after meeting with President Dilma Rousseff, in comments that reinforced an emerging alliance between the Western Hemisphere's two biggest economies.
Mexican officials have presented several captured suspects in line with the murder of US customs agent Jaime Zapata, and injuring of agent Victor Avila after gunmen mistook him for rivals last week in a shoot out.
A former executive committee member of soccer's global governing body FIFA told a US judge in November 2013 that he and other officials took bribes in connection with the 1998 and 2010 World Cups, among other major tournaments.
Lewis Hamilton took a big step towards a second Formula One world championship with his 10th win of the season in a US Grand Prix that saw Mercedes equal the record for one-two finishes.
Leonardo Mayer has beat Israeli Bar Bozter in 6-3, 3-6, 6-2, and 6-1 and gave Argentina the first point in the Davis Cup match for World Group permanence held in the Florida city of Sunrise.
Serbia has continued their remarkable run in the basketball World Cup knockout rounds after a 90-85 win over European champions France steered them into Sunday's final against holders United States.
Doubles pair Federico Delbonis and Horacio Zeballos could not take Israeli doubles Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram, who beat the Argentine couple 3 sets to 2 in a Davis Cup World Group permanence match held in Sunrise City, Florida, in the US. Israel now leads the series 2-1.
The United States basketball team has qualified easily for the semi-finals of the World Cup, coasting past Slovenia 119-76 to book a last-four clash with Lithuania on Thursday.
The US has breezed into the basketball World Cup final after a commanding performance by the holders who beat Lithuania 96-68 in a one-sided contest.
A new era began for the National Basketball Association (NBA) when David Stern's 30-year run as commissioner ended with his deputy, Adam Silver, taking over the helm.
The United States edged out host nation Russia in a thrilling men's ice hockey game at the Winter Olympics, but a last-minute switch of high-tech suits failed to propel American speed skaters to their first medal of the Sochi Games.
A year after the deadly bombing attack, Meb Keflezighi became the first US male athlete to win the Boston Marathon in three decades, in a race among 36,000 people, the second-largest field in the Marathon's 118-year history.
The mayor of Los Angeles has notified the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) that the city is interested in bidding to host the 2024 Olympic Games.
Favorites United States and the Dominican Republic upheld their status in contrasting fashion with wins that opened the double-elimination, second round of the World Baseball Classic in Miami.
A 64-year-old American long-distance swimmer, Diana Nyad, completed a 35-year-long quest to cross the Florida Straits today, becoming the first person to swim from Cuba without a shark cage.
The US Justice Department said today it has joined a civil lawsuit against disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong, accusing him of defrauding the US Postal Service by using banned substances in international races when the post was his sponsor.
Former NBA basketball star Dennis Rodman emerged from four days in North Korea today, calling the leader of the reclusive country "an awesome kid."
The United States and Mexico, who meet in a crucial World Cup qualifier later this month, are also going head-to-head in the election for a place on FIFA's powerful executive committee.
The New York Knicks remain the only unbeaten team in the National Basketball Association (NBA) after an impressive 104-94 win over the in-form Dallas Mavericks at Madison Square Garden last night.
Former England midfielder Paul Gascoigne, who has lapsed in his battle with alcoholism, will receive treatment in the United States after "willingly" travelling there, his management company said today.
The US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has given disgraced American cyclist Lance Armstrong two more weeks to cooperate fully in an investigation into cycling's darkest episode in return for a possible reduction of his life ban.
Going into Sunday's concluding singles matches at the Ryder Cup, the heavily favoured United States team hope to continue their free-wheeling style of play while Europe have been left banking on a miracle comeback.
Kei Nishikori's dream run that took him to the Japan Open tennis title last week was cut short in China when he lost 6-2 1-6 4-6 to Sam Querrey of the US in the second round of the Shanghai Masters.
Clint Dempsey scored twice as the United States booked their place in the final qualifying round for the 2014 World Cup finals with a convincing 3-1 win over Guatemala in Kansas City.
The game between Juan Martín Del Potro and US' Andy Roddick will be completed on Wednesday after the US Open organization decided to call it off due to the persistent rains.
US captain Davis Love III has struggled for years to come up with a way of getting a real 'home field advantage' over Europe at this week's Ryder Cup and he hopes a freewheeling, birdie-laden shootout is his team's best shot at the trophy.
The National Football League (NFL) reached an agreement to end a labour dispute with its regular game officials last night, ending three weeks of questionable calls that had threatened the integrity of the sport.
After an exhausting match, Juan Martin Del Potro run at the US Open continues after he managed to beat Leonardo Mayer 6-3 7-5 7-6(9) in Flushing Meadows on Sunday.
With Rafa Nadal still out recovering from a knee complaint, David Ferrer will lead holders Spain in their Davis Cup semi-final at home to the United States, captain Alex Corretja said.
American Dustin Johnson may not have won the Deutsche Bank Championship but the long bomber put in an 11th hour bid for Ryder Cup selection by tying for fourth place at the TPC Boston.
Britain's Mo Farah won the 5,000 metres title and his second Olympic gold medal with a sensational late charge today amid deafening roars from a crowd witnessing another contender for the greatest moment of the Games.
Michael Orozco scored a late winner as the United States upset Mexico 1-0 in a stirring soccer friendly on Wednesday to register their first win away to their arch-rivals.
Europe captain José Maréa Olazabal was right to ignore triple major winner Padraig Harrington's claims for a wildcard pick and his 12-man team is just about perfect, said former skipper Bernard Gallacher.
US competitor Nick Delpopolo was expelled from the London Olympic Games after testing positive for marijuana and apologised to organisers, fans and fellow athletes for unwittingly eating a brownie that had been baked with the drug.
The US men's basketball team pulled away in the second half of a bad-tempered game against Argentina and claimed a 126-97 victory to claim a top seeding in the Olympic tournament's quarter-finals.
The US men's basketball team launched their Olympic title defence with a joyful display of high-flying skill fuelled by camaraderie, soaring past France 98-71.
China has vehemently rejected suggestions by a US coach that doping might be behind the astonishing performance of a Chinese swimmer as Michael Phelps, himself a former teen pool prodigy, bids to become the most decorated Olympian of all time.
The United States powered to gold in the flagship women's Olympic eight after fighting off fierce rivals Canada to maintain their stunning six-year winning streak and cap a thrilling day of racing on Dorney Lake.
US golfer Webb Simpson clinched his first major title with a nerve-jangling one-shot victory at the 112th US Open after overhauling overnight leaders Jim Furyk and Graeme McDowell.
Tiger Woods is a patient man but he waited in vain for the touch of magic he needed to climb up the leaderboard in benign conditions in the British Open third round.
China lead the Olympic medal standings after winning four gold and two bronze on day two of the London Games on Saturday.
LeRoy Walker, the first black US Olympic team coach and president of the US Olympic Committee (USOC), has died at the age of 93, the USOC said.
Argentina's national basketball team will face the US in the groups' round at the London 2012 Olympics, while Spain will play against Brazil, according to the draw held in Río de Janeiro.
The fist pumps were back and there was even a hint of a smile as Tiger Woods looked like he was enjoying himself at a major championship for the first time in a long while.
Fourteen years after playing Augusta National for the first time as a wide-eyed kid, Webb Simpson is back at the venue this week feeling the same excitement as he prepares to make his Masters debut.
US President Barack Obama believes women should be allowed to join the all-male Augusta National Golf Club, the White House said, adding pressure on the exclusive 80-year-old organization to drop its restrictive policy.
Holders Spain clinched a Davis Cup semi-final berth at home to the United States when David Ferrer cruised to a 7-5 6-3 6-3 victory over Austria's Juergen Melzer to give the hosts an unassailable 3-1 lead.
Tiger Woods found his putting groove to clinch the Presidents Cup for the United States, who held off a stiff challenge by the Internationals at Royal Melbourne Golf Club.
Tiger Woods ended a frustrating victory drought of just over two years when he clinched the Chevron World Challenge which he hosts by one shot, holing a six-foot birdie putt at the last.
Dwyane Wade led the Miami Heat to a 113-101 win over the Toronto Raptors yesterday but admitted he played with a "heavy heart" after learning his adult nephew had been among those injured in a Chicago shooting spree.
A rare snow storm deep in the heart of Texas has added another unusual twist to Sunday's Super Bowl between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers.
Juan Mónaco was defeated by US tennis player Andy Roddick in the quarter-finals of the Winston Salem tournament.
Argentina won three of the four rowing gold medals and Colombia was joined by Venezuela atop the cycling podiums on a good day for South America at the Pan-American Games.
Comedian and actor Garry Shandling, best known for his work on the pioneering cable television comedy series, "The Larry Sanders Show," died on Thursday at age 66, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Bill Cosby has been charged with felony sexual assault over an incident in 2004 at his Philadelphia-area mansion, a Pennsylvania prosecutor said, in the first criminal case involving the comedian after years of mounting accusations.
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump will be exercising his comedy muscles as the host of NBC's live sketch show "Saturday Night Live" next month, the network said today.
In a radical shift of its policy, Apple Inc said today it would now pay artists during free trials of its new Apple Music streaming service, after pop star Taylor Swift said she would hold back her latest hit album "1989" from the service.
A divided federal appeals court today said Apple Inc (AAPL.O) orchestrated a conspiracy with five publishers to increase e-book prices, in a victory for the US Justice Department.
Groundbreaking musician Joni Mitchell, one of the stars of the Woodstock era, was "in good spirits" at a hospital in California today after being found unconscious at her home, her official website said.
Clark Terry, a Grammy award-winning trumpet player and composer who recorded with greats such as Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Quincy Jones, has died aged 94, his wife said today.
Poet Mark Strand, a former poet laureate of the United States and a Pulitzer Prize winner, has died at the age of 80, according to the Academy of American Poets.
Christie's held the biggest art auction in history today, selling $853 million worth of contemporary and post-war art, led by a pair of Andy Warhol works featuring multiple images of Elvis Presley and Marlon Brando.
Comedian Bill Cosby, declined to answer questions by a National Public Radio journalist about accusations of sexual assault that resurfaced in recent weeks.
Mike Nichols, a nine-time Tony Award winner on Broadway and the Oscar-winning director of films such as "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," "The Graduate" and "Carnal Knowledge," died yesterday at age 83, ABC News said.
A portion of late science fiction author Ray Bradbury's estate, including George Bernard Shaw's garden spade and artworks both comedic and surreal, sold for $493,408 in California, the auctioneer said.
The legal war between comic book art great Jack Kirby's heirs and Marvel Entertainment over the rights to Iron Man, Captain America and other superhero icons has ended, not with a climactic final battle but with a settlement announced today by both sides.
"American Idol" judge and mentor Randy Jackson is leaving the Fox TV singing competition after 13 seasons, the network said today, after the show suffered a decline in ratings in recent years.
Comedians, friends and fans on Friday paid tribute and mourned the loss of Joan Rivers, the sassy, sharp-tongued, brutally honest comedy legend who died a week after her heart stopped during an outpatient medical procedure.
Sheer fabrics, backless dresses, draped pants, slit skirts and pastel gowns were the dominant look as designers presented their spring 2015 collections in New York.
A rare blue flawless 12-carat diamond, one of the world's rarest gems, was the newest attraction at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles today, adding a vibrant sparkle to the museum's gem collection.
"Baskets," a new comedy series created by comedians Zach Galifianakis and Louis C.K., has been picked up by FX for a 2016 debut, the basic cable network said.
Acerbic comedian and fashion critic Joan Rivers was rushed to a New York hospital after she stopped breathing during surgery on her vocal chords.
Comedian Joan Rivers remained on life support after being hospitalized in serious condition from cardiac arrest, her daughter Melissa said in a statement.
Oscar winner Sandra Bullock is Hollywood's highest paid actress with estimated earnings of $51 million over 12 months, followed by Jennifer Lawrence and Jennifer Aniston, Forbes magazine said.
The teenage mutant heroes in a half shell are battling their way back to movie screens with teen crushes, insecurity, rage and a hankering for pizza in a franchise reboot for a new generation.
Comedian Robin Williams' ashes have been scattered in the San Francisco Bay following his apparent suicide, according to a death certificate released by Marin County.
Veteran Hollywood actor Bob Hastings, best-remembered as a bootlicking lieutenant in the 1960s television World War Two comedy "McHale's Navy," has died at the age of 89. Hastings died at his home in Burbank, California, on Monday after a lengthy battle with prostate cancer, granddaughter Allison Knowles said.
"Clinton: The Musical," a bawdy, raucous farce parodying the sex scandal that rocked the White House, with two actors portraying the dual sides of Bill Clinton, makes its US debut this month during the New York Musical Theatre Festival.
New York's Metropolitan Opera said it will lock out its musicians and other unionized employees next week if a new contract agreement is not reached, in an escalation of a labor dispute that threatens to derail an entire opera season.
American author and poet Maya Angelou, an eloquent commentator on race and gender best known for her groundbreaking autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," has died at age 86 in North Carolina.
Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan, best known for his roles on "Saturday Night Live" and "30 Rock," was critically injured when his limo bus overturned in a multi-vehicle crash in New Jersey today, police said.
Fifty Sherlock Holmes works published before 1923 by Arthur Conan Doyle are in the public domain, a US appeals court said today, and others may refer to them freely without paying licensing fees to the Scottish writer's estate.
Documentary filmmakers digging in a New Mexico landfill unearthed hundreds of "E.T the Extra-Terrestrial" cartridges, considered by some the worst video game ever made and blamed for contributing to the downfall of the video game industry in the 1980s.
Monster movie remake "Godzilla" crushed its competitors at US and Canadian theaters over the weekend, stomping its way to the top of box office charts with an estimated $93.2 million in ticket sales for the year's second-biggest debut.
US writer Philip Roth, one of the world's most revered novelists, confirmed he will retire from writing and public appearances.
Philanthropist and former media tycoon Ted Turner was rushed to a hospital early today in Argentina's Patagonia region before flying to Buenos Aires for surgery for appendicitis.
Fashion designer L'Wren Scott, who was found dead in her upscale high-rise Manhattan apartment on Monday, died by hanging, the New York City medical examiner's office said.
Hundreds of fans gathered at a public memorial in New York for rocker Lou Reed, the frontman of the 1960s band The Velvet Underground who died last month of liver disease at the age of 71.
Family and close friends bid their final farewells at a private funeral for actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, whose tragic death of an apparent overdose at the age of 46 robbed the entertainment world of one of its finest talents.
American author Elmore Leonard, whose ear for gritty, realistic dialogue helped bring dozens of hard-bitten crooks, cops and cowboys to life in nearly 50 novels, died today at age 87, according to his website, weeks after a stroke.
Best-selling US author Tom Clancy, whose military thrillers inspired movies and video games, has died at the age of 66, the New York Times reported today, citing publisher G.P. Putnam's Sons.
Google Inc today won dismissal of a lawsuit by authors who accused the Web search and media group of digitally copying millions of books for an online library without permission.
Simon Cowell, the acerbic judge on "The X Factor" talent show, tied for first place as the highest-paid personality on US television with "America's Got Talent" judge Howard Stern, Forbes.com said.
US actress Karen Black, who played leading roles in 1970s films "Five Easy Pieces" and "Nashville," died in Los Angeles yesterday, her representatives said. She was 74.
A judge in Los Angeles dismissed a hit-and-run charge against Chris Brown after the R&B singer and the other motorist resolved to have the case dropped, a court spokeswoman said, but Brown still might face jail time.
Author Benjamin Alire Sáenz won the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction for his collection of stories, "Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club," the PEN/Faulkner Foundation said today.
US rock band Bon Jovi beat British singer David Bowie to the top of the Billboard 200 album chart today.
Reality television star Kim Kardashian and rapper Kanye West have named their baby daughter North West, according to a copy of the birth certificate released by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health today.
Rock band Stone Temple Pilots today said they had fired singer Scott Weiland - a decision which appeared to have surprised the band's founding member and the voice behind the its biggest hits of the 1990s.
The final installment of "The Hobbit" film trilogy will be released on Dec. 17, 2014, five months later than planned, Warner Bros. said.
The health of US rapper Lil Wayne was the subject of conflicting reports today, with celebrity website TMZ.com saying he was in a medically induced coma and a fellow rapper saying Wayne was alive and well and watching a basketball game.
Veteran pornography actor Ron Jeremy, one of the industry's biggest stars, was in intensive care and undergoing surgery for an aneurysm near his heart in Los Angeles, his manager said today.
The Berlin film festival looks east this year with six of 19 competition entries either made or based behind the old Iron Curtain, while two star-studded US movies tackle big business - energy and pharmaceuticals.
For Roy Lichtenstein, it was better that the public was over-familiar with his work than not familiar at all, a point never lost on the US artist best known for his giant cartoon strip adaptations.
US presidential drama "Lincoln" led the pack of Oscar nominees today with 12 nominations including a nod for best picture, in the race for the world's top film honours.
US film director Quentin Tarantino admitted he was against the use of automatic weapons, but defended a citizen's right to own a gun, in an interview published in German newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau.
Soul music legend Tina Turner has taken the first steps toward giving up her US passport and becoming a citizen of Switzerland, the country she has called home for nearly 20 years.
The US National Film Registry named 25 films to be preserved as cultural treasures, ranging from Audrey Hepburn's 1961 classic "Breakfast at Tiffany's" to Clint Eastwood's "Dirty Harry" and the sci-fi action movie "The Matrix."
The dwarfs and elves of "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" prevailed at the North American box office again over the weekend, as its $32.9 million in ticket sales topped both the star-packed musical "Les Miserables" and the western "Django Unchained."
British supermodel Naomi Campbell was mugged by two assailants who tried to steal her handbag in Paris in late November, the prosecutor's office and police said today.
The first of three "Hobbit" movies kicked off its box office quest with an estimated $13 million in ticket sales from showings at US and Canadian theaters just after midnight today, a record for a December debut.
British singer Adele notched another accolade as iTunes announced that her Grammy-winning album "21" was the top-selling record of 2012 in its US store, extending the disc's successful run almost two years after it was released.
Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese will get up close and personal with Bill Clinton in a documentary about the former US president, cable channel HBO said today.
The "Twilight" teen vampire movie shined again at US and Canadian box offices, earning US$17.4 million and its third consecutive No. 1 ranking as James Bond held strong and Brad Pitt's new movie struggled.
US singer-songwriter Carole King will be awarded the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the US national library said today.
A film memorabilia collector paid $1.2 million for nine rare and early film posters, including the world's highest-valued poster of the 1927 film "Metropolis," in a bankruptcy auction in Los Angeles today, the trustee in the bankruptcy case said.
US movie companies who depend on exports for more than half their revenue hope a proposed trade agreement will eliminate customs difficulties as the industry abandons film in favor of digital formats, an industry official said.
James Bond can don the tuxedo and break out the Dom Perignon after the super spy returned to theatres in record fashion at the weekend, blowing away box office rivals with $87.8 million in ticket sales for the US and Canadian debut of new movie "Skyfall" for the biggest opening in the franchise's history.
Hollywood star and environmentalist Robert Redford lent his name today to a new nature conservancy at a Southern California college, saying he hoped the research institute could help the environmentally abused region.
The North American box office hit a slump at the weekend, with top earner "The Possession" taking in less than $10 million and what could be the gloomiest overall haul since the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.
Brad Pitt has thrown his weight behind a documentary that blasts America's 40-year war on drugs as a failure, calling policies that imprison huge numbers of drug-users a "charade" in urgent need of a rethink.
Liam Neeson thriller "Taken 2" won a battle between two hostage movies over the weekend, holding on to its top box office rankings for a second week with $22.5 million from ticket sales at US and Canadian theaters.
Quidditch players riding broomsticks tagged on to the Olympics, acknowledging the game adapted from the Harry Potter series was for nerds but arguing that it was a legitimate sport worthy of being in the Olympics.
Marcel Curuchet, pianist for the Uruguayan band 'No Te Va Gustar,' died this afternoon in the United States after being hospitalized overnight in New Jersey. The musician was involved in a road accident yesterday, sources from the band disclosed.
His rants under control and his life seemingly on the mend, "Anger Management" actor Charlie Sheen has pledged $1 million to the USO, a US military support organization, and the donation could go higher if his new TV show becomes a hit.
Ticket sales at US and Canadian theaters suffered a 4 percent slump in 2011 to $10.2 billion, its lowest level in a decade, despite a slew of big studio-funded hits that helped boost the global box office, a Hollywood industry group said.
Pixar Animation Studios, the US-based film studio that made the likes of "Toy Story" and "Cars," among other cinema successes, announced that in 2015 they're to release an animated film based on the Mexican holiday: "The Day of the Dead" (Día de los Muertos), the entertainment magazine Variety reported today.
"The Avengers" proved that five superheroes are better than one by bursting into Hollywood's record books with a massive $200.3 million in ticket sales over its opening weekend in US and Canadian theaters, kicking off Hollywood's summer movie season with a bang.
Irreverent British comedian Russell Brand has signed up for a new late night TV comedy show on the FX network, starting later this year, FX said.
The Simpsons are corroding the morals of Iranian youth, an official said, as dolls based on Bart, Homer and the rest of the US cartoon family joined the shapely Barbie among Western toys targeted by a new crackdown in Tehran.
The real name and birthplace of legendary silent-film star Charlie Chaplin is shrouded in mystery, Britain's domestic spy agency concluded after a probe into US claims he was a communist sympathiser, documents released revealed.
Dolores Hope, the wife of late entertainer Bob Hope, died of natural causes at the age of 102, a family spokesman said.
Walt Disney Co's 3D re-release of the animated classic rang up an estimated $22.1 million in US and Canadian ticket sales over three days as families turned out to see lion cub Simba's return to theaters.
Bruce Springsteen will go on tour next year for the first time in three years, starting with European dates in May and the United States and others to follow, according to the rock star's website.
Comedian and "30 Rock" star Tracy Morgan apologized for making a series of anti-gay remarks, including a reported joke that he would stab his own son to death if he spoke in a "gay voice."
A trove of unpublished photographs of The Beatles' first US concerts taken by a Washington teenager in 1964 took in more than US$360,000 (220,913 pounds) at auction, selling for many times their estimates.
A lost 1920s Alfred Hitchcock film that provides clues into the legendary director's early working style has been discovered in New Zealand, archivists said.
Australian director Peter Weir is back in US movie theaters with his first film in seven years -- the drama "The Way Back."
Eliminated "American Idol" contestant Stefano Langone said he never wanted to win the talent show, but saw it as a way to launch his own musical career.
Raunchy comedy sequel "The Hangover Part II" got off to a roaring start at the North American box office taking in about US$31.7 million on its opening day, according to estimates by movie studio Warner Bros today.
The mass shooting at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando has claimed so far 50 dead. Police said a gunman stormed into the packed Pulse nightclub and opened fire against the crowd. US President Barack Obama ordered the federal government to provide any assistance needed to Florida police investigating the shooting, the White House said in a statement.
A Minneapolis-St. Paul area police officer shot a black man to death during a traffic stop and a woman posted a video on the internet, saying the man had been reaching for his license.
The Islamic State militant group has released a video purporting to show the beheading of a second American hostage, journalist Steven Sotloff, raising the stakes in its confrontation with Washington over US air strikes on its insurgents in Iraq.
Islamic State militants fighting in Iraq and Syria released a video that appears to show British journalist John Cantlie criticizing preparations for US-led attacks on the militant group.
The "Freedom Tower", the main skyscraper of the new World Trade Center in New York City has opened its doors to welcome its first tenants, with the transfer of part of the Conde Nast offices to the building.
A blast of Arctic air gripped the mid-section of the United States, bringing the coldest temperatures in two decades, forcing businesses and schools to close and causing widespread airline delays and hazardous driving conditions. Meteorologists said temperatures were dangerously cold and life-threatening in some places, with 0 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 18 Celsius) recorded in Chicago, St. Louis and Indianapolis.
The Barack Obama administration will not support Argentina in its long-standing dispute with vulture funds suing the South American country over its defaulted bonds more than a decade ago, US State Secretary John Kerry has warned. Still, the American official praised what he considered some "positive steps" the Kirchnerite government has taken.
A 16-year-old student wielding two knives went on a stabbing rampage in the hallways of a Pittsburgh-area high school early injuring at least 22 people, about half of them seriously, officials have said.
Fireworks from an Independence Day celebration in Simi Valley, California, accidentally flew into a crowd of thousands of onlookers, injuring 28 people.
The head of state stated that "nobody was madder" than he about Obamacare glitches that have frustrated web users looking for information on the system, which was at the centre of inter-party wranglings that caused this month's government shutdown.
US President Barack Obama shook the hand of Cuban President Raul Castro at a memorial to Nelson Mandela today, an unprecedented gesture between the leaders of two nations which have been at loggerheads for more than half a century.
Parodying the '90s hit "Barbie Girl," a new music video titled "Romney Girl" has hit the internet mocking Mitt Romney's offshore accounts and undisclosed tax returns, while making clear that the conservative candidate's wealth makes him out of touch with the average US citizen.
The US Northeast region began crawling back to normal after monster storm Sandy crippled transportation, knocked out power for millions and killed at least 50 people in the US and 69 in the Caribbean.
A small plane crashed into an apartment in Hernord, Virginia, resulting in three people injured. First versions allege the aircraft - heading from the Philadelphia area to Manassas Regional Airport-, run out of fuel nosediving into the unit's living room.
In his first visit to Colombia in more than a decade, US Vice-President Joe Biden said he's pleased security concerns can now take a back seat to trade and economic issues in talks with Washington's longtime ally.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said yesterday a proposed free trade agreement between the European Union and United States should cover all sectors and industry, drawing a stark contrast with France, which wants to leave out sensitive cultural industries.
US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron found common ground yesterday in the White House, pledging their countries' support for the moderate opposition in Syria.
Belgium finally found a way past inspired goalkeeper Tim Howard as extra-time goals by Kevin De Bruyne and Romelu Lukaku gave them a 2-1 victory over the United States today and set up a World Cup quarter-final against Argentina.
More people in the United States tuned in to the US-Belgium World Cup soccer match on yesterday than they did for the World Series of baseball - the top championship game for the sport also known as the national pastime.
US President Barak Obama today called US Soccer team captain Clint Dempsey and goalkeeper Tim Howard to congratulate them on their Brazil World Cup performance.
A disappointing Cristiano Ronaldo came up with a brilliant cross in the final minute to allow Silvestre Varela to grab a 2-2 draw for Portugal against United States, but Paulo Bento's men need a miracle to qualify for the World Cup last-16 in their final match.
By Soledad YtuarteThe United States' representatives in Buenos Aires made a surprising move which had its more than 16 thousand followers active the whole weekend, responding to and re-tweeting football comments and strangely informal remarks.
A 55th minute Thomas Mueller goal gave Germany a 1-0 win over the United States today but the result allowed both teams to progress to the second round of the World Cup.
US stocks closed sharply higher today as investors sought bargains among beaten-down stocks and the recently battered biotechnology index bounced back on the last day of Wall Street's worst quarter since 2011.
US stock indexes jumped over 1 percent as worries about the economy after a disappointing jobs report gave way to a robust rally in energy and materials stocks.
Pope Francis did not ask to meet a Kentucky county clerk who had been jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples and did not offer her unconditional support, the Vatican said.
The man killed by police yesterday after he fatally shot nine people at a community college in southern Oregon was a nervy 26-year-old who lived close to the campus and described himself as shy, according to neighbors, media and online reports.
Oscar Parrilli, the head of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI), questioned the United States stance in the AMIA case as "hypocrisy" and "contradiction" for refusing to cooperate in the search of Antonio Stiuso.
The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York today refused to force Bank of New York Mellon Corp to turn over to holders of defaulted Argentine bonds any of the $539 million the country deposited in 2014 to pay creditors who participated in its past restructurings.
US stocks fell today, ending a five-day winning streak, as investors focused on upcoming quarterly reports that are expected to reflect a dip in corporate earnings.
US stocks ended stronger after a volatile session led by a rebound in biotechnology companies that pushed the S&P 500 to its highest level in three weeks.
World stock indexes edged higher following the release of minutes from the last Federal Reserve meeting, while the dollar extended declines.
The S&P 500 was down slightly as investors paused after several days of gains, led by declines in the energy sector as oil prices were largely unchanged.
Obama will overhaul Washington's approach to supporting Syrian rebel forces following this year's deeply troubled launch of a US military training program, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said.
Islamic State fighters have seized villages close to the northern city of Aleppo from rival insurgents, despite an intensifying Russian air-and-sea campaign that Moscow says has targeted the militant group.
Russia, a top ally of President Bashar al-Assad, started bombing in Syria on Sept. 30 saying it was targeting Islamic State and other opposition groups, a campaign that has drawn Moscow deeper into Syria's more than four-year-old conflict.
Hundreds of thousands of people marched in Berlin today in protest against a planned free trade deal between Europe and the United States that they say is anti-democratic and will lower food safety, labor and environmental standards.
A tame inflation reading and strong earnings from Citigroup led investors to pile back into stocks today, pushing Wall Street to its best level in eight weeks.
President Barack Obama condemned the recent outbreak of violence in Israel and urged Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to tamp down their rhetoric. "We condemn in the strongest possible terms violence directed against innocent people," he said.
US stocks ended down slightly today as a drop in healthcare and biotech stocks offset gains in United Technologies and Verizon.
The S&P 500 closed at its highest in two months today as stronger-than-expected earnings from several top companies, including McDonald's, relieved investors' concerns about the profit outlook.
US Secretary of State John Kerry called for an end to inflammatory Israeli-Palestinian rhetoric as he met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who blamed the Palestinians for a recent surge of violence.
During a press conference delivered this afternoon Economy Ministry Axel Kicillof announced the government has been notified by European holders of Argentine bonds that they had urged Bank of New York Mellons (BoNY) to be paid or they will formally request to remove the bank as fiduciary agent.
US stocks ended sharply higher after a volatile session today as the Federal Reserve gave a vote of confidence in the US economy by signaling a December interest rate hike was still on the table.
Iran will not cooperate with the United States on any issue including the "fight against terrorists in Syria", a top adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted today as saying by state media.
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen today pointed to a December interest rate "liftoff" but a slow path of increases from then on as the central bank continues to nurture an economic recovery.
US stocks edged lower on Thursday as investors digested mixed healthcare and tech earnings a day ahead of Friday's US jobs report.
US stock indexes were little changed in choppy trading after a stronger-than-anticipated jobs report hardened the chance that the Federal Reserve would finally raise interest rates in December.
Wall Street ended modestly higher after a choppy session as gains in consumer discretionary stocks offset a drop in Apple and investors hunkered down for a potential interest rate hike next month.
US stocks finished lower after investors sold oil companies and dumped brick-and-mortar retailers after a disappointing forecast from Macy's.
US stocks dropped on Thursday as cheaper commodities weighed on energy and materials stocks and comments by a Federal Reserve policymaker hinted at an interest-rate hike next month.
US stock indexes fell sharply weighed down by consumer retail and technology stocks after disappointing forecasts from Cisco and department store chains suggested weakening demand heading into the key holiday shopping season.
Five US governors today said they would not allow Syrian refugees to be settled in their states, joining Alabama and Michigan and contending it is too dangerous to let in people from that war-torn country following Friday's deadly Paris attacks.
US stocks forfeited gains today after a soccer match between Germany and the Netherlands was called off over fears of a bombing.
US stocks closed with gains of more than 1 percent today after minutes from the Federal Reserve October meeting showed a solid core of officials rallied behind a possible December rate hike.
US indexes wobbled today as healthcare stocks snapped a three-day rally after UnitedHealth cut its profit forecast, offsetting gains in technology stocks.
Stocks in major markets gained today, with the benchmark US index poised for its best week in a year, while the euro lost ground against the dollar as Europe's central bank said it was ready to act quickly to boost inflation.
At least four of the Paris attackers were listed in a central counter-terrorism database maintained by the US intelligence community, five US officials said.
French President Francois Hollande said today the United States and France have agreed to step up strikes in Syria and Iraq to target Islamic State militants after the deadly November 13 attacks in Paris.
Wall Street held onto meager gains in subdued trading today, underpinned by healthcare and consumer stocks after a flood of data suggested the US economy was growing modestly.
Wall Street was little changed, a shortened trading day, as investors turn their focus to the crucial US holiday shopping season and Disney weighed on indexes.
Crowds were thin at US stores and shopping malls in the early hours of Friday, initial spot checks showed, as shoppers responded to early Black Friday discounts with a mix of enthusiasm and caution.
US President Barack Obama said on Tuesday the world needs an enduring framework for addressing climate change and that he would seek an agreement that would boost economies as well as help the planet's environment.
US stocks rallied broadly on Tuesday, led by energy and financial shares as crude oil prices rose and ahead of Wednesday's interest rate decision from the Federal Reserve.
The US Federal Reserve began a two-day meeting at which it is expected to turn in the other direction and raise rates in an increasingly normal economy.
US stocks rose in volatile trading on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve announced it is raising its key policy rate for the first time in nearly a decade.
US stocks dropped Thursday on persistent concern over faltering global economic growth, led by declines in energy and materials shares, a day after shares had rallied on the Federal Reserve's decision to raise interest rates.
Wall Street was lower in morning trading, with the Dow shedding about 200 points, on "quadruple witching" Friday as crude prices headed for their third straight weekly loss.
Wall Street rallied on Tuesday as crude oil prices recovered slightly and data showed that the US economy grew at a fairly healthy clip in the third quarter.
European shares were rising, lifted by gains in the mining sector on the back of stronger copper prices and signs of more Chinese stimulus measures.
US stock indexes were higher as a slight recovery in crude oil prices led to a surge in energy stocks. Crude prices edged up as colder weather entered Europe and North America, raising hopes of a short-term uptick in the tepid demand that has plagued the commodity this year.
US stocks opened slightly lower on Wednesday as crude oil gave up Tuesday's gains after forecasts indicated cold weather in Europe and the United States would be short-lived.
Wall Street dipped with the S&P 500 moving toward a flat ending to a volatile year marked by record highs as well as a major selloff.
US stocks were recovering from a bruising selloff on the first trading day of the year, but early gains evaporated as investors remained wary of a global economic slowdown.
The White House has unveiled gun control measures that require more gun sellers to get licenses and more gun buyers to undergo background checks, moves President Barack Obama said were well within his authority to implement without congressional approval.
All three major indexes fell more than 1 percent as investors looked for safe havens after China allowed its currency to weaken further and oil prices fell to their lowest in more than 11 years.
North Korea said it successfully tested a miniaturized hydrogen nuclear device, setting off alarm bells in Japan and South Korea.
US stocks pared gains and turned negative, weighed down by energy stocks as oil prices dipped below $33 a barrel -their lowest in more than a decade.
US stocks were flat in afternoon trading on Tuesday, after an early rally was wiped out as crude oil prices once again held the markets hostage.
US stocks opened higher as crude oil prices finally rose on positive Chinese trade data that allayed concerns about the health of the world's second-biggest economy.
US stocks rallied strongly on Thursday, with the S&P 500 crossing a key technical level, as a rebound in oil prices boosted energy companies.
US stock indexes notched deep losses in volatile trading on Friday, with the S&P 500 hitting its lowest since October 2014 and the Dow losing more than 500 points, as oil prices dived below $30 per barrel.
US stock indexes notched deep losses in volatile trading on Friday, with the S&P 500 hitting its lowest since October 2014 and the Dow losing more than 500 points, as oil prices dived below $30 per barrel.
International sanctions on Iran will be lifted today when the United Nations nuclear agency declares Tehran has complied with an agreement to scale back its nuclear program, Iran's foreign minister said.
Iranian media reported that four Iranian-Americans held in Iran had been released and seven Iranian-Americans held in the United States would also be freed under the prisoner swap. Diplomats were gathering to announce the lifting of international sanctions and bring the country of 80 million people back to the global economic stage.
A recent selloff on Wall Street deepened on Tuesday as US crude prices fell and an "in line" report showing slower growth in China failed to prop up an early rally.
Stocks rose on Wall Street Thursday as oil prices recorded their biggest gain this year and ECB President Mario Draghi raised hopes of more stimulus for the euro zone.
Wall Street was heading toward its first positive week of 2016, as a cold snap in the US and Europe helped send oil prices surging for a second day.
A powerful storm barreled toward Washington, DC, today, threatening to bury parts of the Middle Atlantic region under as much as 30 inches (76 cm) of snow and bring the nation's capital to a virtual standstill.
At least 13 people have been killed in weather-related car crashes in Arkansas, North Carolina, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee and Virginia, and a 14th person died of a heart attack while shoveling snow in Maryland.
A renewed slump in oil prices amid a lingering global supply glut hurt US and European stock markets today and weighed on the dollar following a rebound in those sectors late last week.
Wall Street was rebounding sharply, driven by a set of strong corporate results and recovering crude oil prices, ahead of the Federal Reserve's policy meeting and Apple's results.
Apple's tepid forecast and a renewed slide in oil prices pulled Wall Street lower, ahead of the Federal Reserve's statement on monetary policy.
Shares were falling as disappointing earnings from Roche weighed on the healthcare sector and euro zone banks also came under pressure.
Crude oil prices rose to their highest in three weeks on hopes for a pact among oil producers to cut output, while the dollar slipped on bets that interest rate hikes by the Fed would be more gradual than it suggested.
Stocks jumped worldwide and the yen slumped after the Bank of Japan stunned markets by adopting negative interest rates, while hopes the Federal Reserve will slow the pace of future US rate hikes also underpinned stock gains.
Strong gains in Facebook and Alphabet helped Wall Street cut losses and stage a late-day rally, with major indexes closing near the unchanged mark.
US stocks dropped after another steep drop in oil prices and a disappointing spending forecast from Exxon Mobil.
Ted Cruz soundly defeated Donald Trump in Iowa's Republican nominating contest, creating a three-way competition with candidate Marco Rubio.
The first known case of Zika virus transmission in the US was reported in Texas by health officials, who said it likely was contracted through sex. Dallas County Health and Human Services said it received confirmation of the case in Dallas from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
US stocks staged a late-day rally to end higher today as an 8-percent jump in oil drove up beaten-down energy shares and financials rebounded.
"We knew each other, obviously, in New York," Clinton, a former US senator from New York, said in excerpts of a People magazine interview released on Wednesday. "I knew a lot of people."
US Republican Rand Paul suspended his 2016 presidential bid after his small-government campaign failed to gain traction with voters.
US stocks eked out a second straight gain as materials shares rose with commodities prices. Disappointing forecasts from retailers and anxiety ahead of Friday's jobs report limited the advance.
Global stock markets slumped and the US dollar rallied after a key US jobs report painted a mixed picture of the labor market and left investors with a muddled view on interest rate hike prospects.
US stocks ended a volatile session down slightly as a late-day rally by materials and healthcare shares offset another big drop in oil prices.
The insurgent candidates in the 2016 US presidential race, billionaire Republican Donald Trump and democratic socialist Bernie Sanders, looked likely to get a lift nat the New Hampshire primary elections by defeating mainstream rivals.
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders coasted to victory on a wave of voter anger in the New Hampshire presdential nominating contest, thrashing traditional US politicians in a display of anti-establishment power.
Wall Street was on track to snap a three-day losing run on Wednesday after comments by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen eased investor concerns about the capacity of the economy to absorb a gradual rise in interest rates.
Tightening financial conditions driven by falling stock prices, uncertainty over China and a global reassessment of credit risk could throw the US economy off track from an otherwise solid course, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said in prepared testimony to Congress.
Bank shares dragged Wall Street lower on Thursday on concerns the a slowing global economy will continue to pressure interest rates, but energy shares helped the market pare losses on a report that OPEC may move to cut oil production.
US and European shares rebounded from recent weakness on Friday, with reassuring US retail sales data boosting sentiment, while US crude prices rallied from more than 12-year lows.
The World Health Organization expects suspected links between the Zika virus and two neurological disorders, microcephaly in babies and Guillain-Barre syndrome, to be confirmed within weeks.
Wall Street was higher on Tuesday afternoon, extending a rally from Friday, as investors went bargain hunting among beaten-down consumer discretionary, industrial and financial stocks.
Hedge funds litigating against Argentina in the United States over the country's defaulted bonds will have until Friday to respond to the government's demand to have orders restricting it from servicing its restructured debts vacated, US District Judge Thomas Griesa ruled.
Finance Secretary Luis Caputo will hold meetings today in New York with Court-appointed mediator Daniel Pollack amid ongoing negotiations between the national government and holdout representatives.
Wall Street closed lower on Thursday, ending a three-day winning streak, as Wal-Mart shares dragged on the market after a lackluster earnings report and oil prices pulled back.
Democratic Bernie Sanders will test his appeal with minority voters in Nevada while Republicans vote in South Carolina in the state-by-state contest to pick nominees for the Nov. 8 election.
A draft US-Russian plan calls for a cessation of hostilities in Syria to begin on February 27 but to exclude Islamic State and al-Qaeda linked Nusra Front militants, two Western diplomatic sources said.
Wall Street slid on Tuesday on pressure from a renewed drop in oil prices1. European shares fell on disappointing updates from Standard Chartered and BHP Billiton, but M&A expectations boosted shares in exchange operators.
Peter Mondavi Sr., a pioneer of wine in California's famed Napa Valley who ran his family's Charles Krug Winery, has died, the winery said. He was 101.
Wall Street was lower on Wednesday morning, as energy stocks took a hit from a slide in oil prices after Saudi Arabia ruled out a cut in output to help tackle a global glut.
US health officials are investigating 14 reports of the Zika virus that may been transmitted through sex, including to several pregnant women, raising new questions about the role sexual transmission is playing in the growing outbreak.
Creditors fighting Argentina in US courts for more than a decade over defaulted debt have reached a $5 billion agreement to settle the dispute, a lawyer representing the investors said on Wednesday.
Apple Inc submitted a legal brief on Thursday opposing the US government's attempt to force the technology company to unlock an encrypted iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters, one day before the filing deadline.
Wall Street inched higher on Friday after data showed that a slowdown in US economic growth was not as bad as expected, but gains were capped as oil prices came off sessions highs.
Wall Street surged on Tuesday, led by financial and technology stocks, after encouraging US factory and construction data suggested the economy was regaining momentum after slowing in the fourth quarter..
US stocks were slightly higher on Wall Street on Wednesday as gains in energy and banks buoyed the S&P 500.
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton took big steps toward securing their parties' presidential nominations with a series of state-by-state victories, but their rivals vowed to keep on fighting.
Argentine Nobel peace laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel asked US President Barack Obama today to acknowledge the complicity Washington had "with the coup d'états in the past and the present of the region" when he visits Argentina this month.
Wall Street drifted higher on Friday, after swinging between gains and losses, as data showing strong employment gains last month was tempered by a drop in wages and hours worked.
Revenue and Finance Minister Alfonso Prat Gay was addressing a meeting of the Lower House committees of Budget and Finance, both of them presided by PRO party lawmakers Luciano Laspina and Eduardo Amadero respectively.
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton are each looking to strengthen their front-runner status in five presidential nominating contests, as Trump tries to weather a barrage of blistering attacks from his party's establishment.
US stocks ended near session lows on Tuesday in a late selloff as the energy sector tumbled alongside the price of oil and after soft Chinese trade data rekindled fears that the global economy is weaker than anticipated.
Wall Street built on a nearly month-old rally on Wednesday as a strong recovery in oil prices sent energy shares sharply higher.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) test-fired two ballistic missiles that it said were designed to be able to hit Israel, defying US criticism of similar tests carried out the previous day.
"I am very pleased to report that the Republic of Argentina continues to reach Agreements in Principle with Bondholders, both large and small, holding defaulted Argentine bonds," a statement released by court-appointed mediator Daniel Pollack in Argentina's debt dispute said today.
US stock indexes ended a volatile session little changed on Thursday after the European Central Bank reduced interest rates but ECB chief Mario Draghi confounded investors who expected multiple rate cuts by saying more were unlikely.
Wall Street rallied on Friday as steadying oil drove energy shares, putting the three major indexes on track for their fourth straight weekly gains in more than four months.
US presidential candidate Donald Trump canceled a rally in Chicago after the event turned into a chaotic scene with thousands of attendees split into opposing camps of supporters of the Republican front-runner and protesters inflamed by his candidacy.
Healthcare and materials stocks pulled Wall Street lower on Tuesday in a second straight day of quiet trading as investors cautiously awaited news from the US Federal Reserve's two-day policy meeting.
Donald Trump could take a giant step toward securing the Republican presidential nomination if he wins the Florida and Ohio primaries, which would intensify pressure for rivals from the party establishment to step down from the race.
The S&P 500 closed at its highest level of the year on Wednesday after the US Federal Reserve left interest rates untouched and signaled fewer rate hikes in coming months.
The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones industrial average turned positive for the year on Thursday, a day after the US Federal Reserve signaled fewer interest rate hikes for the year.
World equity markets were poised for a fifth week of gains, their best run in more than two years, as a 2016 high for oil, the dollar's recent decline and a more optimistic view of the economy combined to boost investor confidence.
There is no doubt about the participation of the United States in Argentina's 1976-1983 military dictatorship, Human Rights Secretary Claudio Avruj said following the news that Washington will declassify military and intelligence files from the Dirty War period ahead of Barack Obama's visit to the country.
The Vatican is putting its files in order, expected to declassify the documents related to Argentina's 1976-1983 civic-military dictatorship, the Argentine Episcopal Conference Secretary Carlos Malfa said following a meeting with Pope Francis in the Holy See. The news come after Washington announced it will be releasing military and intelligence documents to help the ongoing investigations into crimes against humanity committed during the bloody regime, ahead of US President Barack Obama's visit to the country.
Wall Street closed slightly lower on Tuesday, inching back from an initial selloff that followed deadly attacks in Brussels, as declines in consumer and telecom stocks offset a jump in healthcare shares.
US President Barack Obama discussed Brazil's political crisis in a bilateral meeting with Argentina's President Mauricio Macri in Buenos Aires on Wednesday, saying he hoped it could be effectively resolved.
The government of the United States has "significant foreign policy interests" to find a "rapid" resolution to the long-standing dispute between Argentina and so called vulture funds, the US Department of Justice said as Barack Obama ends a two-day visit to the country during which he expressed his firm support to the administration of Mauricio Macri.
Two Americans were killed in Tuesday's suicide bombings in Brussels, a senior US official said on Friday, as US Secretary of State John Kerry met with Belgian leaders and offered condolences and help following the attack.
Islamic State's top finance officer and other senior leaders were likely killed this week in a major offensive targeting the militant group's financial operation, US Defense Secretary Ash Carter said.
Three states are holding Democratic nominating contests where Hillary Clinton will try to expand her lead in the contest to secure the party's nomination.
According to the Télam state run news agency, President Mauricio Macri will be holding a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on April 1 on the margins of the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit to be held in Washington, United States next week.
The S&P 500 lifted into positive territory after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said the central bank should proceed "cautiously" on raising interest rates - music to Wall Street's ears.
US stocks plowed further into positive territory for 2016 on Wednesday, helped for a second session by comments from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen that eased anxiety about potential interest rate hikes.
Wall Street inched up in quiet trading helped by energy stocks, as a tumultuous quarter draws to a close.
Wall Street extended a seven-week rally on Friday after upbeat US. jobs and factory data hinted at stronger corporateearnings without increasing concerns of potential US interest rate hikes.
President Mauricio Macri will be taking part in the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington and hold a series of bilateral meetings with world leaders in the margins of the international event.
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump predicted that the United States is on course for a "very massive recession," warning that a combination of high unemployment and an overvalued stock market had set the stage for another economic slump.
US stocks dropped as oil prices slid and worries about the global economy resurfaced, dragging down the dollar against the yen and causing investors to flee riskier assets.
A sharp rally in crude oil and energy shares lifted US stocks, but indexes registered losses for the week and investors were cautious ahead of earnings season.
Wall Street gained on Tuesday, led by surging energy shares that were buttressed by rising oil prices, as investors scooped up equities at the start of corporate earnings season.
Wall Street rallied for a second straight day on Wednesday, led by gains in beaten-down financial shares after JPMorgan's quarterly results.
A US appeals court today cleared the way for the lifting of injunctions that prevented Argentina from paying off some debts, a ruling the country sought after agreeing to settle litigation by creditors suing over defaulted bonds.
Wall Street was little changed on Thursday after two days of solid gains as investors digested the latest round of big bank earnings and financial shares kept bouncing back.
Wall Street slipped on Friday as oil price declines weighed on energy shares and Apple dragged on the market, but major indexes were still poised to post weekly gains.
The S&P 500 and the Dow gave up early gains on Tuesday, but were still within shouting distance of their record highs, as investors assessed weak earnings reports by IBM and Netflix.
Wall Street edged up as a rebound in oil prices added to the optimism sparked by a raft of earnings reports that beat tempered expectations.
Argentina began paying more than $9 billion on Friday to creditors who refused debt restructurings after a record 2002 default, closing the door on messy litigation. "Judge Thomas P. Griesa late this morning lifted the Injunction against Argentina in all cases pending before him," a statement from Daniel Pollack released today said.
Wall Street pared early gains and was little changed, weighed down by quarterly results of Dow components 3M and Procter & Gamble.
The Federal Reserve held interest rates unchanged and while it left the door open to a hike in June, its statement implied that it was in no hurry to follow on from its December rate rise.
US stocks closed down on Thursday as the Bank of Japan's shocking call to cap monetary stimulus continued to rattle investors while a late day decline in Apple shares on remarks by billionaire investor Carl Icahn added to selling pressure.
Air strikes hit a hospital in a rebel-held area of Syria's Aleppo and killed at least 27 people, including three children and the city's last pediatrician, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Wall Street was lower for a second day as investors assessed corporate earnings and data showed that US inflation barely rose in March as consumer spending remains tepid.
New York billionaire Donald Trump expects Republican primary voters who cast ballots on Tuesday in Indiana to make him unstoppable in his march toward the party's presidential nomination.
Florida braced for flooding and strong winds as Tropical Storm Colin churned toward the state's northern Gulf Coast on Monday, and was expected to make landfall later in the day before crossing the US Southeast.
Hillary Clinton has captured enough delegates to secure the Democratic presidential nomination, according to tallies by two US media outlets, as she and rival Bernie Sanders faced off on Tuesday in contests in six states.
A gunman killed 50 people and injured 53 in a crowded gay nightclub in the tourist hub of Orlando, Florida, before being shot dead by police, authorities said, in what appeared the deadliest mass shooting in American history. The shooter was identified as Omar S. Mateen, a man that a senior FBI official said might have had leanings toward Islamic State militants.
US President Barack Obama delivered a statement on the Orlando massacre calling Americans to "decide what type of country we want to be," alluding to the access citizens in that country have to weapons that are "then" used to kill people "in cinemas, schools."
The Vatican said Pope Francis reacted "in horror" to the news about the mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub where 50 people lost their lives, the Vatican said.
US law enforcement officials are investigating reports that the man who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando may have been gay himself, but not openly so, two officials said today, with one describing the massacre as a possible "self-hate crime."
There is "no question" that a 2-year-old boy who was dragged by an alligator into a lagoon at Walt Disney World resort in Florida is dead, the local sheriff said.
Global risks and a US hiring slowdown warrant a cautious approach to raising interest rates as the Federal Reserve looks for confirmation that the country's economic recovery remains on track, Fed Chair Janet Yellen said.
Turkish investigators pored over video footage and witness statements today after three suspected Islamic State suicide bombers opened fire and blew themselves up in Istanbul's main airport, killing 41 people and wounding 239.
Federal Reserve policymakers decided in June that interest rate hikes should stay on hold until they have a handle on the consequences of Britain's vote on EU membership, according to the minutes of the Fed's June policy meeting released on Wednesday.
Following his visit to France, Belgium and Germany, Mauricio Macri will be attending the Sun Valley Conference in the city of Idaho, United States, which will be presided over by Microsoft creator Bill Gates.
A gunman who served in the US Army Reserve and said he was "upset at white people" was part of an attack in which five Dallas police officers were killed and another seven were wounded, authorities said.
n Poland for a NATO summit, US President Barack Obama called the Dallas shooting "a vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement."
A US Army reservist who served in Afghanistan, embraced militant black nationalism and professed a desire to "kill white people" has been named by authorities as the lone gunman in a sniper attack on police in Dallas that left five officers dead.
The former US Army reservist posted an angry rant against white people on the Facebook page of a group called Black Panther Party Mississippi last Saturday, denouncing the brutalizing of black people.
The S&P 500 hit a record intraday high on Monday, extending a rally fueled by stellar jobs data that underscored the resilience of the US economy amid global uncertainty.
US Senator Bernie Sanders on Tuesday endorsed former presidential rival Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee ahead of the party's July convention.
Republican Donald Trump chose Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his vice presidential running mate on Thursday, U.S. media reported, a move that will put at Trump's side a conservative with the potential to unify divided Republicans.
After hitting its highest mark in four months and reaching 15.50 pesos earlier, the US dollar today fell five cents to 15.31 pesos in banks and foreign exchange agencies.
After eliminating 16 party rivals, warring with much of the Republican establishment and provoking controversy at the party convention, Donald Trump on Tuesday had his name formally placed in nomination for the White House.
Republican Dan Sullivan claimed victory in a tight race for the US Senate in Alaska, a week after elections gave Republicans control of the Senate and strengthened their grip on the House of Representatives.
The Dow industrials closed at a record high today, boosted by gains in Wal-Mart, but the S&P 500 was little changed as energy shares tracked crude futures prices lower.
Israel and the Palestinians have pledged to take concrete steps to calm tensions around Jerusalem's holiest site, US Secretary of State John Kerry said today after talks in the Jordanian capital.
US stocks posted a fourth straight week of increases but ended today little changed as losses in healthcare shares offset gains in energy.
US-led air strikes hit 10 units of Islamic State fighters in Syria in recent days, as well as militants with the al Qaeda-linked Khorasan Group, US Central Command said in a statement today.
The United States' top military officer told American troops on a surprise visit to Baghdad that the momentum in the battle with Islamic State was "starting to turn", but predicted a drawn-out campaign lasting several years.
The leaders of the United States, Japan and Australia lined up together against Russia, vowing to oppose Russian incursions into Crimea during a rare trilateral meeting held at the G20 summit in Brisbane.
Islamic State militants have beheaded another American hostage, Peter Kassig, issuing a video claiming the killing today and warning the United States they would kill other US citizens "on your streets."
US aid worker and Indiana native Peter Kassig, beheaded by Islamic State militants who captured him in Syria last year, was remembered for his courageous devotion to helping people whose lives were upended by civil war.
The S&P 500 edged up to close at a record high today as deal activity worth US$100 billion offset concerns about overseas growth after Japan's economy slipped into recession.
The Pontiff announced that he would visit the United States next year, his first trip there as leader of the 1.2 billion-member Roman Catholic Church.
A British medical student and a Frenchman who went to Syria last year are believed to have appeared in a video showing a squad of Islamic State jihadists beheading Syrian soldiers and displaying the severed head of American aid worker Peter Kassig.
The US State Department's unclassified email systems were the victim of a cyberattack in recent weeks, around the same time as White House systems were breached, a senior US official said.
US stocks climbed in afternoon trading, lifting both the Dow and S&P 500 to record highs as healthcare shares extended this week's gains.
US stocks edged lower as minutes from the most recent Federal Reserve meeting gave investors few new clues as to when US interest rates may rise.
US stocks closed higher, with major indexes notching a fifth straight weekly advance after China's central bank cut its benchmark interest rate and its euro zone peer announced asset purchases.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has resigned, ending nearly two years in the Pentagon's top job after a bruising mid-term election that undermined President Barack Obama's Democrats in Congress.
The United States Congress is set to confirm Noah Mamet as the nation's new ambassador to Argentina, filling the post that has been empty for over a year since Vilma Martínez vacated the job on July 4 2013.
People swarmed the streets of New York and other cities for a second night to protest a grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer in the death of an unarmed black man.
France has announced it had agreed to put $60 million into a fund managed by the United States to compensate Holocaust victims deported by French state rail firm SNCF to Nazi death camps, a deal that protects it from future US litigation.
Paul Singer, head of one of the hedge funds in dispute with Argentina, made statements regarding the judicial dispute with the country at the DealBook's annual conference celebrated in New York.
US stocks fell sharply, leaving the benchmark S&P 500 with its worst weekly performance since May 2012, as investors pulled back from the markets in response to oil's free-fall and more weak data out of China.
US President Barack Obama and Cuba's Raúl Castro thanked Pope Francis for his role in the talks for normalizing relations. The Vatican expressed "warm congratulations for the historic decision" and offered its good offices "to facilitate a constructive dialogue."
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has praised the normalization of United States and Cuba relations announced by US President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raúl Castro, during the MERCOSUR summit held in Entre Ríos.
The S&P 500 closed out its biggest two-day advance since November 2011, extending a Federal Reserve-fueled rally from the previous session, while tech shares jumped after Oracle results.
Pope Francis, who played a key role in the breakthrough in US-Cuban relations –as presidents Barack Obama and Raúl Castro highlighted-, expressed his joy for the historic rapprochement after 53 years of hostility.
Following yesterday's historic renewal of bilateral relations between the US and Cuba, Bolivia's president Evo Morales joined his South American counterparts who have praised the breakthrough as a Cuban victory.
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner called the UK government 'to sit and dialogue' over the Malvinas Islands' dispute, and gave as an example the agreement reached yesterday between the United States and Cuba.
US stocks extended gains for a third session, giving the S&P 500 its best weekly performance in nearly two months as energy shares continued to rebound.
The US government has blamed North Korea for a devastating cyberattack against Sony Pictures, calling it an unacceptable act of intimidation and vowing to impose "costs and consequences" on those responsible.
A gunman shot dead two New York City police officers and then killed himself, police said, after a social media post indicated he may having been seeking revenge for the death of an unarmed black man during an arrest attempt.
US stocks ended higher, with both the Dow and S&P 500 closing at records in a broad rally, though trading was light with many market participants still out for the Christmas holiday. Major indexes closed out their second straight weekly gain.
"How about that? No clamp, no devaluation. Spending power and the government's public policies," Cristina wrote, in reference to Buenos Aires Herald figures that showed Argentines continue to travel to the US despite difficulties in obtaining foreign currency.
US president Barack Obama offered that country's assistance "to help bring these terrorists to justice," after the attack that killed at least 12 people at the offices of the Frenchl magazine Charlie Hebdo.
US President Barack Obama will invite allies to a February 18 security summit in Washington to try and prevent violent extremism, US Attorney General Eric Holder said after meeting his European counterparts in Paris.
The World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling against Argentina triggers "no immediate modification" of the country's trade administration, Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich pointed out adding a "comprehensive and detailed analysis of the ruling's terms" is needed.
U.S. stocks closed little changed on Tuesday after the International Monetary Fund reduced its growth forecasts for 2015 and 2016, increasing speculation central banks would take more aggressive policy moves to spark economic improvement.
US stocks rose after the European Central Bank announced larger than expected measures to stimulate the region's sagging economy.
The US government has called for a "complete and impartial" investigation on the death of AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who had accused President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of covering up the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community centre.
The East Coast of the US from Philadelphia to New York City to Maine braced today for a potentially historic blizzard that forecasters say could dump up to 3 feet (90 cm) of snow on the region and snarl transportation for tens of millions of people.
A blizzard dropped more than a foot (30 cm) of snow across the northeastern United States today, falling short of the massive predicted snowfall that prompted officials across the region to close schools and order travel bans.
A huge winter storm hit the northeastern United States today, the region's second snowy blast in less than a week, after leaving more than a foot (30 cm) of snow in the Chicago area.
US President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama exchanged greetings at a religious event in Washington but did not meet directly.
The White House is monitoring the situation in Argentina, where the death of Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor who had accused President Cristina Fernandez of covering up Iran's alleged role in a 1994 bombing has sparked protests, White House spokesman Josh Earnest has said.
By Pablo Jiménez
US stocks closed lower on the last trading day of February after mixed US economic data on a day when European stocks hit records and oil prices rebounded for their first monthly gain since June.
Senator Barbara Mikulski, the longest-serving female senator in US history, today announced that she will retire at the end of her term, setting up a contest among possible successors in the heavily Democratic state of Maryland.
US President Barack Obama has told reporters "as far as I can tell, there was nothing new" in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress panning US-led nuclear talks with Iran.
US stocks closed lower on Friday and the S&P 500 declined for a second straight week after a strong monthly jobs report as investors bet that the Federal Reserve could raise interest rates sooner than previously expected.
"Judge Griesa's order violates basic legal principles, making clear his decisions are not based on the law but on his evident partiality against Argentina," the ministry said in a statement released this afternoon.
The Pentagon City Shopping Plaza and the Pentagon City Mall near the headquarters of the US Department of Defense in Arlington, Virginia, were evacuated today after an anonymous bomb threat was made, local media reported.
The passenger killed in a crash at a Walt Disney World Speedway race-car attraction has been identified as an instructor who was riding in a Lamborghini that hit a guardrail after the driver lost control, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has warned about a "global political operation" that threatens "sovereign nations," following an article published in Pagina12 newspaper that links the so called "vulture funds" with late AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, the DAIA Jewish organization, and the political opposition's rejection of the Iran memorandum.
NML Capital, one of the leading hedge funds in a legal battle against the national government, today said it was taking a close look at yesterday's announcement of Economy Minister Axel Kicillof about a local sale of the Bonar 2024 bond.
Rioters hurled bricks, looted businesses and set fires in Baltimore in violence that injured at least seven police officers following the funeral of a black man who died after he was injured in police custody.
US stocks bounced back sharply today as investors snapped up beaten-down shares in the healthcare and technology sectors, and as data gave further signs of a pickup in the economy.
The United States has warned of a possible accident for the world economy if Greece and its creditors miss their June deadlines to avert a debt default.
The Republican leader of the US House of Representatives urged the US Senate to pass the USA Freedom Act, a bill that reforms an expiring domestic surveillance program, and do so "expeditiously."
The Dow and S&P 500 eased as increasing expectations the Federal Reserve could raise rates as soon as September offset optimism over a recovery in the US labor market.
"We very much are looking forward to the United Kingdom staying a part of the European Union," Obama said during a meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron at the G7 summit in Germany.
US stocks climbed today as retail sales data lifted the outlook for consumer spending and as healthcare shares gained. The S&P 500 health care index gained 0.5 percent and was among the day's best-performing sectors, led by shares of Eli Lilly.
The Nasdaq Composite today erased its last standing milestone from the dot-com era as it set a record intraday high, with stocks on Wall Street in rally mode boosted by strong economic data.
US stocks fell today ahead of a summit next week that could decide whether Greece will need to print its own currency and ditch the euro.
The United States National Security Agency spied on French presidents Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande, WikiLeaks said in a press statement, citing top secret intelligence reports and technical documents.
Walt Disney Co will ban selfie sticks starting next week at its theme parks around the world, the company said today, joining a growing list of attractions that restrict the camera accessories for safety reasons.
US stocks finished up after a choppy trading day as investors held out hopes for a deal to keep Greece in the euro even as it veered close to a potential default.
US stocks closed down slightly after the International Monetary Fund warned Greece ahead of its Sunday referendum that it faces a huge financial hole.
Police found no evidence of a shooter at the facility just a mile south of the US Capitol, a Washington police department spokeswoman said about two hours after initial reports emerged.
The International Monetary Fund has trimmed its forecast for global economic growth for this year to take into account the impact of recent weakness in the United States.
US stocks closed higher, with major indexes ending up more than 1% on hopes Greece would be able to secure fresh funding at an upcoming meeting, which would allow it to remain in the euro zone.
After more than two weeks of marathon negotiations, Iran and six world powers were close to nailing down an historic nuclear deal that would bring sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on Tehran's atomic programme, diplomats said today.
The head of state's official website published a video and transcript of part of the conversation held with the venerable US publication today, in a rare interview for CFK who tends to avoid one-on-one contact with the press. The commercial relationship with the North American nation figured heavily in the chat.
A major rally in Google pushed the Nasdaq to a second straight record high today while weak energy stocks weighed on the Dow and S&P 500.
Buenos Aires Governor Daniel Scioli was received by President of Cuba Raúl Castro for an official audience in Havana, making the presidential candidate the first foreign politician to meet the head of state since the normalising of relations with the US.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq posted their largest weekly drops since March as slowing global growth dragged commodity-related stocks lower while an earnings-fueled drop in Biogen took down the biotech sector.
US stocks ended sharply higher today, breaking a five-day losing streak as attention shifted from trouble in Chinese equities to US corporate earnings and to speculation the first Federal Reserve interest rate hike may not come until December.
Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman has sent two letters, one to US Secretary of State John Kerry and the other one to EU Foreign Affairs representative Federica Mogherini, asking them to confirm whether sanctions against Iranian former Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi will be lifted, following the agreements with Iran.
Wall Street ended on a sour note today as a drop in energy stocks eclipsed wage data that supported expectations that the US Federal Reserve might hold off on an interest rate.
Wall Street ended lower today for a third straight session as investors worried about a rise in interest rates while Apple's shares hit their lowest in over six months.
Wall Street ended sharply lower today as weak earnings reports from media companies stirred fears that more viewers are ditching cable TV, dragging the sector to its worst two-day loss since the financial crisis.
US stocks ended lower today after solid job growth data for July pried the door open a little wider for a potential interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve in September.
The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals said US District Judge Thomas Griesa had improperly expanded a class of investors who hold certain bonds and are seeking repayment following the country's $100 billion default in 2002.
US stocks rebounded in afternoon trading today to end little changed as energy shares and Apple rebounded, offsetting continued concerns about a slowdown in China.
NY district judge Thomas Griesa has said he will consider all Argentine government assets in the United States, except for diplomatic and military ones, as commercial assets which hedge fund NML Capital could try to seize.
Shares revived and bond yields rose in major markets today after China's central bank reassured investors there was no reason for its currency to keep falling.
US stocks ended higher today after upbeat US economic data and as euro zone finance ministers agreed to launch a third bailout program for Greece.
A coalition led by the United States conducted 13 air strikes against the Islamic State in Iraq yesterday, and it also targeted the militant group in Syria with five air attacks, according to a statement released today.
A 6 percent tumble in Chinese shares and soft earnings from Wal-Mart held US equities in check while copper touched multi-year lows.
US stocks fell in choppy trading today as minutes from the latest Federal Reserve meeting highlighted concern over the state of the global economy, driving markets to question the likelihood that the Fed will raise rates next month.
An improving job market edged the US Federal Reserve closer to an interest rate hike at its July meeting even as policymakers continued to express broad concerns about lagging inflation and the weak state of the world economy, according to minutes released today.
The S&P 500 tumbled to a more than six-month low today closing in negative territory for the year, on concern a decelerating Chinese economy will translate into slower global growth.
The S&P 500 suffered its biggest daily percentage drop in nearly four years and the Dow confirmed it had entered into correction territory as fears of a China-led global slowdown rattled investors around the world.
US stocks were up almost 2 percent in choppy afternoon trading today after a top Federal Reserve official said global market turmoil made the case for a September interest rate hike was "less compelling".
Wall Street rallied more than 2 percent today as strong US economic data and hints that a September interest-rate hike was unlikely fueled optimism that the worst of recent market turmoil was over.
Wall Street ended a tumultuous week with a flat close as investors shrugged off concerns that a September rate rise was more likely than some investors expected.
The Central Bank today won the reversal of a US court ruling that had allowed bondholders to try to hold it responsible for the country's obligations on debt that has been in default since 2002.
Wall Street slumped more than 2 percent today, pushing all three major US indexes into losses for the year after weak data from China added to fears that a slowdown in the world's second-largest economy will constrain global growth.
US stocks opened up almost 1 percent today, rebounding from steep losses a day earlier, after fresh intervention from China to support its markets helped calm jittery investors and oil prices reversed course to trade higher.
Wall Street rose today after European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi hinted at additional stimulus measures and ahead of a key US jobs report that may figure in the Federal Reserve's decision about when to lift interest rates.
US stocks rose more than 2 percent today, bouncing after steep losses last week and a China-fueled rebound in global equities.
US stocks ended more than 1 percent lower today after rallying the day before, led by declines in Apple shares and in energy companies, which fell with oil prices.
President Barack Obama has directed his administration to prepare to take in at least 10,000 Syrian refugees next year, a White House spokesman said today.
Energy stocks pushed Wall Street higher today due to an almost 6-percent jump in oil prices, but many investors stayed on the sidelines a day ahead of the US Federal Reserve's decision on interest rates.
US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet in November to discuss the Iran nuclear deal as well as other regional security issues, the White House said today.
Major Wall Street indexes gave up a 1-percent rally to end lower today after the Federal Reserve cited concerns about global economic growth in its decision to hold off on raising interest rates.
European telecoms group Altice will become a major force in the lucrative US cable market after it agreed to buy fourth-largest operator Cablevision for a mix of cash and shares in a deal worth $17.7 billion including debt.
Wall Street fell today as the Federal Reserve's decision to keep interest rates near zero fueled concerns about global growth, muddying the outlook for stocks.
The United States issued regulations easing restrictions on US companies seeking to do business in Cuba and opening up travel in the latest action to weaken the trade embargo amid warming relations with the Communist country.
Pope Francis celebrated Mass in Havana's Revolution Square and met with former leader Fidel Castro but warned Cubans against the dangers of ideology as their country enters a new era of closer ties with the United States.
US stocks dropped today as a selloff in commodities dragged down materials shares and Volkswagen suppliers' shares dropped following the German carmaker's emissions scandal.
US stocks were down slightly in late trading today after weak Chinese and US factory data added to global demand worries.
Pope Francis told US Roman Catholic bishops that crimes of sexual abuse of minors by clergy should never be repeated.
In a landmark message in the US Capitol, the Argentine pontiff said the "mindset of hostility" on immigrants must be rejected, calling to not repeat the "sins and errors" of the past.
US stocks closed lower today in a volatile session on uncertainty about US monetary policy and global economic growth, while market heavyweight Caterpillar cut in its sales forecast and healthcare investors fled for the exits.
Pope Francis' address to the Congress of the United States of America is the first a Roman Catholic pontiff delivers in history, a privilege only granted to foreign political leaders and monarchs. Until now.
Pope Francis expressed "closeness" with the world's Muslims after more than 700 pilgrims were killed in a stampede outside the Islamic holy city of Mecca in the worst disaster to strike the annual haj pilgrimage in a quarter century.
Pope Francis, leading a multi-faith prayer service at the site of the Sept. 11, 2001 World Trade Center attacks, today called on people to embrace diversity and resist attempts to impose uniformity.
US stocks ended higher after a volatile session as concerns about the health of the global economy kept investors cautious after more than a month of turbulence.
The United States has no information indicating beheaded American journalist Steven Sotloff was "sold" to Islamic State militants by moderate Syrian opposition rebels, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.
A rebound in Apple shares helped push US stocks higher today, breaking the market's two-day string of losses.
US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Baghdad today in an unannounced stop on a Middle East anti-jihadist tour to build military, political and financial support to defeat Islamic State militants controlling parts of Iraq and Syria.
The Patriots, a group of heavily armed private citizens, use displays of force to intimidate people attempting to cross the border illegally. Since early summer the Patriots have patrolled an area near Brownsville, Texas.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged US$50 million to support emergency efforts to contain West Africa's Ebola epidemic, which has already killed almost 2,300 people in the worst outbreak of the virus in history.
President Barack Obama told Americans he had authorized US airstrikes for the first time in Syria and more attacks in Iraq in a broad escalation of a campaign against the Islamic State militant group.
US stocks recovered from early losses today, with the S&P 500 managing a slight gain as energy prices and oil stocks turned higher and financials lent support.
US stocks recovered from early losses today, with the S&P 500 managing a slight gain as energy prices and oil stocks turned higher and financials lent support.
The fight against Islamist militants should only be carried out in compliance with international law and with respect for the territorial integrity of Syria and Iraq, Russia's Foreign Ministry said.
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The United States signed up Arab allies today to a "coordinated military campaign" against Islamic State fighters, a major step in building regional support for President Barack Obama's plan to strike both sides of the Syrian-Iraqi frontier.
European Union governments agreed to begin their new sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis on Friday but could lift them next month if Moscow abides by a fragile truce, while the United States prepared its own fresh sanctions.
US stocks fell today as energy shares extended their recent slide, while rising bond yields drove down high-dividend paying shares.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said he was comfortable that the United States would form a broad-based coalition to fight Islamic State militants but said it would not be appropriate for Iran to be involved in the efforts.
The US intelligence community has sharply raised its estimate of the number of Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria to between 20,000 and 31,500, from its estimate in June of about 10,000.
The United States hit Russia's largest bank, a major arms maker and arctic, deepwater and shale exploration by its biggest oil companies with new sanctions to punish Moscow for its intervention in Ukraine.
The European Union and Ukraine agreed today to delay the implementation of their free-trade pact until the end of next year in a concession to Russia, which had complained its industry would be hurt by the deal.
President Barack Obama said the goal of an international coalition he is helping to form is to "ultimately snuff out" the type of extremism demonstrated by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
North Korea sentenced US citizen Matthew Todd Miller to six years hard labour for committing "hostile acts" as a tourist to the country.
US stocks closed with mixed results today as the tech sector dragged the Nasdaq to its worst day since July and kept the S&P 500 near the unchanged mark as investors cleared the decks for Alibaba's debut planned for later this week.
Washington said countries in the Middle East had offered to join air strikes against Islamic State militants and Australia said it would send troops, but Britain held back even after the group beheaded a British hostage and threatened to kill another.
As President Cristina Kirchner's gets ready for her annual trip to New York to speak at the United Nations General Assembly, US interim ambassador in Buenos Aires Kevin Sullivan ratified that Washington will not back the UN sovereign debt resolution sparked by Argentina's legal battle with its holdout creditors.
Russia's strength is being tested by sanctions imposed by the West and the country must react in a level-headed way, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told members of the country's ruling party, United Russia.
The White House weighed in carefully on the Scottish independence referendum, saying Washington would respect the outcome of the vote but would prefer the United Kingdom to remain "strong, robust and united."
The US military has struck an Islamic State target southwest of Baghdad, US Central Command said, in an expansion of the Obama administration's campaign against the militant group that has seized large swaths of Iraq and neighboring Syria.
US stocks rose today and the S&P notched its best performance in a month after a report shifted investor expectations for the Federal Reserve's policy statement due on Wednesday.
US stocks rose today and the S&P notched its best performance in a month after a report shifted investor expectations for the Federal Reserve's policy statement due on Wednesday.
Cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich said that US interim ambassador in Buenos Aires Kevin Sullivan has been summoned by Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman following his remarks about the country needing "to exit default as soon as possible" in an interview published on Monday .
Britain promised to guarantee Scotland high levels of state funding, granting Scots greater control over healthcare spending in a last-ditch attempt to shore up support for the United Kingdom before Thursday's vote on independence.
US citizen identified as Anthony Rocco Franklin, under international warrant for homicide in the US Columbia and Montour counties, has been arrested by Argentinean Federal Police in the streets of Palermo neighbourhood in Buenos Aires city.
US stocks edged higher today after the US Federal Reserve renewed a pledge to keep interest rates near zero for a "considerable time," as had been expected..
Cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich said there has been no formal response from the US government following Argentina's dispute with interim ambassador in Buenos Aires Kevin Sullivan over an alleged "intrusion into domestic affairs".
US president Barack Obama, trying to reassure war-weary citizens, has vowed that the United States will not fight another ground war in Iraq but his spokesman said some military advisers could end up in front-line positions against Islamic State.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has denounced Islamic State's beheading of innocent people, saying the militant group's shameful actions violate Islamic principles.
US stocks rose today, a day after the US Federal Reserve kept intact its pledge to keep interest rates low, providing a backstop for investors that helped lift both the Dow and S&P to record highs.
Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko has secured $53 million in assistance from the US but Barack Obama for now turned down his appeals for weapons to fight Russian-backed separatists.
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner assured that Argentina is under "permanent speculative attack headed by US Federal judge Thomas Griesa," and criticized "local vultures who have amplified the offensive to the point of ridicule."
The US Senate approved Obama's plan for training and arming moderate Syrian rebels to battle Islamic State militants today, a major part of his military campaign to "degrade and destroy" the radical group.
President Barack Obama said on Thursday that strong bipartisan support in the US Congress for the training and arming of moderate Syrian rebels showed Americans were united in the fight against Islamic State militants.
US stocks closed little changed today after Alibaba's strong debut was offset by falling technology shares as Oracle and Yahoo stumbled, but the Dow managed to edge higher to set a record for a second straight session.
A US appeals court dismissed an appeal by Citigroup Inc and Argentina of an order blocking the bank from processing payments on $8.4 billion in bonds issued under the country's laws following its 2002 default.
White House staff and reporters returned to the building after being briefly evacuated tonight because of an intruder on the grounds, a Reuters witness said.
An international day of action on climate change brought hundreds of thousands of people onto the streets of New York City, easily exceeding organizers' hopes for the largest protest on the issue in history.
US stocks closed lower today, with the S&P 500 suffering its biggest one-day decline since early August, as the latest housing data came in much weaker than expected, raising new concerns about the rate of growth in the economy.
Islamic State urged its followers to attack citizens of countries which have joined a coalition to destroy the group. Islamic State spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani said the intervention by the US-led coalition would be the "final campaign of the crusaders."
A decorated Iraq war veteran who scaled a fence on Friday night and got into the White House had over 800 rounds of ammunition in his car and was arrested in July with a sniper rifle and a map marking the executive mansion, a federal prosecutor said.
Dozens of protesters were arrested during a demonstration in New York City to denounce what organizers say is Wall Street's contribution to climate change.
US stocks fell today, with consumer staples leading the S&P 500 down to its third straight daily loss, as investors grew concerned about the pace of global economic growth.
The United States and its Arab allies bombed militant groups in Syria for the first time today, killing scores of Islamic State fighters, members of a separate al Qaeda-linked group and opening a new front amid shifting Middle East alliances.
US President Barack Obama vowed to continue the fight against Islamic State fighters following the first US-led airstrikes targeting the militant group in Syria, and pledged to build even more international support for the effort.
Between 550,000 and 1.4 million people in West Africa could be infected with the Ebola virus by January 20, 2015, according to a report issued on Tuesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
A man in a United Parcel Service uniform fatally shot two workers and then killed himself at a UPS facility in Birmingham, Alabama, police said.
US stocks jumped in a broad advance today, with the S&P 500 snapping a three-day losing streak and climbing back above a key technical level in a move that pointed to improving near-term momentum.
US planes pounded Islamic State positions in Syria for a second day, but the strikes did not halt the fighters' advance in a Kurdish area where fleeing refugees told of villages burnt and captives beheaded.
Business tycoon Eduardo Eurnekian expressed confidence that billionaire George Soros, who met with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in New York last Monday "may be well positioned to help broker a deal," in reference to the dispute between Argentina and so called vulture funds.
US stocks ended with sharp losses today, with the S&P 500 suffering its biggest one-day decline since July, as Apple tumbled and the dollar rose to a four-year high.
US and Arab air forces struck Islamic State fighters in Syria for a third day today, as Washington won further pledges of military support for its battle against the radical group in neighbouring Iraq.
In tune with president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's criticism about the US-led "war on terrorism" at the UN yesterday, Foreign Ministry Héctor Timerman said that "democracy is not imposed by bombing countries" and pointed out that the UN has "not authorized any military operation" against the Islamic State.
Iran President Hassan Rouhani blamed the rise of the Islamic State group and other militants on "certain intelligence agencies", saying the solution to stopping them must come from the Middle East region itself and not the West.
Eric Holder is stepping down but has agreed to stay on until a successor is named and confirmed.
The prime minister of the Kiev government accused Russia of attempting to freeze Ukraine in the coming winter by using natural gas as a weapon to subjugate the former Soviet Republic.
Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman played down today the diplomatic tension surged in the last hours with the United States and Germany amidst a legal battle between Argentina and the so called "vulture funds."
Islamic State fighters tightened their siege of a town on Syria's border with Turkey today despite US-led air strikes aimed at defeating the militants in both Syria and Iraq, in a coalition which has now drawn widespread European support.
US Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere Roberta Jacobson has said the bilateral relationship with Argentina is going through a "tough period", while stating the legal battle between the South American country and holdouts is not a political problem but a judicial problem.
Iran and six world powers made little progress today in overcoming significant disagreements in the most recent round of nuclear talks, including on uranium enrichment, Iranian and Western diplomats close to the negotiations said.
Russia used its annual appearance at the UN General Assembly today to accuse the United States and its Western allies of bossing the world around, complaining they were attempting to dictate to everyone "what is good and evil."
Buenos Aires City Mayor, Mauricio Macri questioned President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's foreign policy today, and warned that "we can't continue fighting with everyone."
A Twitter account run by an Qaeda member said the leader of the al Qaeda-linked Khorasan group was killed in a US air strike in Syria, SITE monitoring service said today, following several days of uncertainty over whether he survived the raid.
US intelligence agencies underestimated Islamic State activity inside Syria, which has become "ground zero" for jihadists worldwide, President Barack Obama said in a CBS television interview broadcast today.
US stocks were sharply lower today, extending the previous week's decline on heavy volume as investors monitored the continued civil unrest in Hong Kong for any potential impact on Chinese growth.
The Foreign Ministry has asserted that New York district judge Thomas Griesa's contempt ruling against Argentina is in clear breach of international law, adding that the decision had no practical ramifications against the nation and only served to aid the vulture fund campaign.
The US government is closely watching democracy protests in Hong Kong and said it supports the "aspirations of the Hong Kong people," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.
US warplanes attacked Islamic State targets in Syria overnight, in raids that a group monitoring the war said killed civilians as well as jihadist fighters.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to shift the spotlight away from the Islamic State militant group and back to Iran, warning the United Nations that a nuclear-armed Tehran would pose a far greater threat than "militant Islamists on pickup trucks."
US stocks slipped today, dragged down by energy and materials shares as economic data disappointed.
EBay Inc said it would spin off PayPal, its fast-growing payments business, into a publicly traded company in the second half of 2015, marking an about-face for the company.
The government made a deposit today to comply with the Par coupon interest payment which was due today, in what can be read as a defying stance towards a US court that blocked such payments until the country compensated US hedge funds suing over unpaid bonds.
A new footage featuring British Islamic State's hostage John Cantlie, the third in the so called "Lend me your ear" propaganda series, has been released today. Dressed in an orange suit, the hostage speaks against US president Barack Obama and criticizes US "disappointingly predictable" action against the militants.
Amid an ongoing dispute between the government and the US judiciary over the legal battle with holdout creditors, the US Embassy in Buenos Aires has issued yesterday a warning message for US citizens living in Argentina or about to travel to the country.
Two students were injured today in the United States in separate school shooting incidents which hit the communities of Louisville, Kentucky and Albemarle, North Carolina, although neither of the victims is in a critical state.
The US State Department has reacted to the letter sent by the Argentine government to Secretary of State John Kerry before yesterday's ruling, declaring the country in contempt of court. "We are following the situation closely," a spokesperson from that entity expressed earlier today.
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has questioned the warning message issued yesterday by the US Embassy in Buenos Aires, saying it is "in line" with anti-government media, and seriously doubting interim ambassador in Buenos Aires Kevin Sullivan's intentions with the note.
In her first public appearance since the declaration of the country in contempt of court, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner took a hard-line against the US on national broadcast and warned that if "something happens to me, look north", in a speech delivered from the Women's Salon, at the Government House.
US stocks dropped more than 1 percent today as the first diagnosis of Ebola in a patient in the United States spooked investors, economic data pointed to uneven growth, and the Russell 2000 index entered correction territory.
US stocks dropped more than 1 percent today as the first diagnosis of Ebola in a patient in the United States spooked investors, economic data pointed to uneven growth, and the Russell 2000 index entered correction territory.
Cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich reiterated the government's claim for the US government to take responsibility for the actions of its judicial branch in Argentina's longstanding legal battle against its holdout creditors.
US health experts in Dallas today were examining how many people may have been exposed to Ebola, just one day after the first case of the deadly virus was diagnosed in the United States, the nation's top public health official said. Texas Governor Rick Perry informed today some school-age children have come in contact with the patient, although he was confident the virus would be contained.
The head of the Mormon Argentina Buenos Aires West Mission, US citizen David Paul Robertson, was kidnapped, robbed, and finally released by armed men that attacked him while he was driving in Ciudadela, in Greater Buenos Aires.
US Secret Service Director Julia Pierson has stepped down from her post, after a series of security lapses came to light involving the protection for President Barack Obama.
US stocks ended flat in a volatile session today as energy stocks rebounded and investors bought beaten-down shares, especially small caps.
Up to 100 people may have had direct or indirect contact with the first person diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus in the United States, and four people have been quarantined in a Dallas apartment, health officials have said.
Turkey's parliament has authorised the government to order military action against Islamic State as the insurgents tightened their grip on a Syrian border town, sending thousands more Kurdish refugees into Turkey.
Islamic State militants fighting in Iraq and Syria released a video today that purported to show the beheading of a man it identified as British citizen Alan Henning.
US President Barack Obama strongly condemned the killing of British citizen Alan Henning by Islamic State militants fighting in Iraq and Syria and said the United States would seek to bring his killers to justice.
US-led coalition war planes have attacked Islamic State targets around the Syrian border town of Kobani overnight as the insurgents pressed their assault against its Kurdish defenders, a monitoring group and witnesses said.
The first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States took a turn for the worse, slipping from serious to critical condition, as health officials reported fielding scores of possible cases around the country that proved to be false alarms.
US disease-control agents in biohazard suits removed a sick passenger and his daughter from a United Airlines jet that landed today in Newark, New Jersey, but federal health officials later said they had ruled out Ebola as a concern.
The Ebola patient hospitalized in Dallas is "fighting for his life," a top US health official said, a day after the man's condition worsened from serious to critical.
US stocks edged lower in choppy trading today, with a slide in Micron shares and GT Advanced Technologies' bankruptcy more than offsetting gains in Hewlett-Packard.
The fifth American to contract Ebola in West Africa arrived in the United States for treatment on Monday as the first patient diagnosed with the deadly virus on US soil fought for his life at a Dallas hospital, officials said.
The US Supreme Court today declined to decide once and for all whether states can ban gay marriage, a surprise move that will allow gay men and women to marry in five states where same-sex weddings were previously forbidden.
By Nadia NasanovskyBeyond its rapid advance on the ground -where it has gained control over large swathes of Syria and Iraq-, the IS has also conquered the digital world, spreading its influence on a global scale through social media and posing an unprecedented challenge to Western powers determined to crush it.
The US military is flying Apache helicopters against Islamic State rebels in Iraq for the first time, exposing US troops to greater risk from ground fire as they help Iraqi forces battle the Islamist group that has overrun parts of the country.
US stocks ended sharply lower, with major indexes falling 1 percent in heavy trading, as weak data out of Germany raised concerns about the strength of global growth ahead of the start of earnings season.
Turkey's president said the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani was "about to fall" as Islamic State fighters pressed home a three-week assault that has cost a reported 400 lives and forced thousands to flee their homes.
Canadian legislators today approved government plans to send fighter jets to Iraq, where they will take part in US-led air strikes against Islamic State militants for up to six months.
Shares in German business software maker SAP featured among the top losers, down 3.9 percent. Traders cited speculation about weak orders in the fourth quarter and an internal memo in which the company's finance chief urged staff to cuts costs.
The Ebola patient fighting for his life in a Dallas hospital is on a ventilator and a kidney dialysis machine to help stabilize his health, the hospital.
A Liberian man who was the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States died in a Texas hospital today, his case having put health authorities on alert for the deadly virus spreading outside of West Africa.
At least 21 people were killed in riots across Turkey, the deadliest street unrest in years, after the Kurdish minority rose up in fury at the government's refusal to protect a besieged Syrian town from Islamic State.
US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has granted a request from Idaho officials and temporarily blocked the planned start of gay marriages in that state after a regional federal appeals court's ruling striking down the state's same-sex marriage ban.
A white off-duty policeman shot and killed a black teenager in St Louis yesterday, officers said, triggering a night of protests just miles from the site of another police shooting of another black youth in the suburb of Ferguson.
Economy Minister Axel Kicillof today assured Argentina will keep on looking for a solution to the vulture fund dispute and will encourage dialogue to reach a deal.
Turkey has agreed to support the training and equipping of moderate opposition groups in Syria, the US State Department said today, saying a US military planning team would visit Ankara next week to further talks on the matter.
A commercial plane was briefly quarantined on a Las Vegas airport tarmac today, sending airline shares down as worldwide fears increased that Ebola could spread outside West Africa, where it has killed more than 4,000 people.
A county clerk in Idaho began issuing the state's first marriage licenses to gay couples today, after the US Supreme Court lifted a temporary hold it imposed days earlier, capping a week of victories for supporters of same-sex matrimony in America.
While Islamic State has been able to reinforce its fighters, the Kurds have not. Islamic State has besieged the town to the east, south and west, meaning the Kurds' only possible supply route is the Turkish border to the north.
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said today that the embattled Syrian city of Kobani was a very difficult problem but added that air strikes had made some progress in driving back Islamic State militants.
A health worker in Texas at the hospital where the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States died last week has tested positive for the deadly virus in a preliminary test, the state's health department said.
A breach of care protocol caused a healthcare worker in Texas looking after a patient sick with Ebola to contract the disease, a top US medical official said.
Riot-gear clad police arrested at least 17 people after they refused orders to disperse from a spontaneous sit-in outside a convenience store in St. Louis during a weekend of otherwise peaceful protests against police violence.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has called for a renewed commitment to achieving Middle East peace, saying a lasting deal between Israel, the Palestinians and all their neighbours was possible.
The United States and Saudi Arabia launched eight airstrikes in the last hours against Islamic State targets in Syria, including seven near Kobani, the US military's Central Command said.
An Islamic State suicide bomber detonated a truck laden with explosives today in the besieged Kurdish town of Kobani, near the Turkish border crossing with Syria, a monitoring group and Kurdish sources said.
The case of a Dallas nurse who contracted Ebola while caring for a dying Liberian patient shows that the United States needs to rethink how it addresses infection control as an outbreak of the deadly virus spreads beyond West Africa, a top US health official said today.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended up slightly today, breaking a three-day string of declines that marked their worst losses since 2011, while the Dow finished lower for a fourth session on lingering worries about global demand.
President Barack Obama will wait until after November 4 congressional elections to nominate a new US attorney general, a White House official said.
US government agencies are investigating claims that a US citizen fighting with the Islamic State militant group died recently in the Syrian border town of Kobani.
US stocks fell today on continued worries about weak global demand, but managed to close well above session lows that briefly pushed the S&P 500 and Nasdaq into negative territory for the year.
The US military believes it has killed several hundred Islamic State fighters in air strikes in and around the Syrian town of Kobani. The coalition had conducted 21 attacks on the militants over Monday and Tuesday.
The US leader pledged federal officials would oversee the response to Ebola cases in that country in a more aggressive way, and said the Centers for Disease Control would send a "SWAT team" to any hospital encountering a new case of the disease.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq eked out slight gains after another choppy session as economic data eased fears about the potential effect of a weakening global economy on the United States.
Iran's foreign minister said that progress was made in "very difficult" nuclear talks with top US and EU diplomats this week when possible solutions were discussed, sources who attended his briefing for Iranian media said.
Congressional lawmakers have criticized the government's response to Ebola in the United States as some called, at a congressional hearing probing efforts to contain the virus, for a ban on travel from epidemic-stricken West Africa.
President Barack Obama authorized calling up military reservists for the US fight against Ebola in West Africa today, as lawmakers criticized his administration's efforts to contain the disease at home.
Two days of heavy air strikes by US warplanes slowed an advance by the Islamic State against Kurdish forces defending the Syrian border town of Kobani.
US stocks extended their rebound from this month's bruising selloff today, giving the S&P 500 its best day in over a week, as worries about the US earnings outlook eased, but the S&P 500 still posted its fourth straight week of declines.
President Barack Obama has asked former White House adviser Ron Klain to coordinate US efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak, an administration official said today, after criticism the government's response to the virus has been slow and inadequate.
The son of US Vice President Joe Biden was discharged from the US Navy reserve earlier this year after testing positive for cocaine, sources familiar with the matter have said.
Barriers to gay marriage fell in Arizona, Alaska and Wyoming following a series of federal court actions in the latest in a series of legal victories for supporters of same-sex matrimony in America.
US-led coalition jets pounded suspected Islamic State targets at least six times in the besieged Syrian town of Kobani today after the fiercest shelling in days by the insurgents shook the town's centre and hit border areas within Turkey.
A Dallas hospital lab worker who spent much of a cruise holiday in isolation after possible exposure to Ebola has tested negative for the disease, and in Texas some of the dozens of people still being monitored were expected to be cleared today and tomorrow.
The fiercest fighting in days shook the Syrian border town of Kobani overnight as Islamic State fighters attacked Kurdish defenders with mortars and car bombs, sources in the town and a monitoring group said.
US stocks ended higher today on investor hopes for a strong earnings season, but IBM's disappointing results limited gains.
The US Central Command said US Air Force C-130 aircraft had dropped weapons, ammunition and medical supplies to allow the Kurdish fighters to keep up their resistance in the town which is called Kobani in Kurdish and Ayn al-Arab in Arabic.
US stocks rallied today, with the S&P 500 notching a fourth straight session of gains boosted by strong corporate results, including Apple's.
US stocks rallied today, with the S&P 500 notching a fourth straight session of gains boosted by strong corporate results, including Apple's.
Oscar de la Renta, one of the most sought-after fashion designers of the last half century, dressing American first ladies and Hollywood stars in his classic silhouettes, died today at the age of 82.
North Korea has freed Jeffrey Fowle, one of three United States citizens detained by the country, and he is being flown home to his family in Ohio, the White house said today.
The United States has ratcheted up its safeguards against Ebola, requiring travelers from three countries at the center of an epidemic in West Africa to fly into one of five major airports conducting enhanced screening for the virus.
US stocks erased earlier gains to close lower today as a shooting at the Canadian parliament unnerved investors, Boeing and Biogen sold off following results, and energy stocks fell along with oil prices.
US stocks erased earlier gains to close lower today as a shooting at the Canadian parliament unnerved investors, Boeing and Biogen sold off following results, and energy stocks fell along with oil prices.
US Secretary of State John Kerry welcomed the release of one of three Americans held in North Korea and said Washington is willing to resume talks with Pyongyang if it takes steps towards de-nuclearisation.
A US appeals court has dismissed an appeal by Argentina of an order directing Bank of New York Mellon Corp to hold onto $539 million the country deposited for its restructured bondholders.
A baby died and eight other people were hurt when a Palestinian man slammed his car into pedestrians at a Jerusalem light railway stop, then police shot the driver as he fled, police and a hospital official said.
Earnings from Caterpillar and 3M drove Wall Street higher today but stocks pared gains in late trading after reports that a New York hospital was running Ebola tests on a healthcare worker.
A 5-pound gold nugget dug up in Northern California this past summer and believed to be the largest privately held piece of its kind from the state was offered for sale at $400,000 today.
US stocks closed out their best week in nearly two years today, helped by earnings from Microsoft and Procter & Gamble and as concerns eased over the possible spread of Ebola in the United States.
Federal health regulators granted emergency authorization today for two new tests made by BioFire Defense that detect Ebola in humans, highlighting new steps by the government to prevent a severe outbreak in the United States.
The US Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, arrived in Guinea's capital Conakry to see first hand how the global response is failing to stop the deadly spread of Ebola in West Africa.
British troops ended their combat operations in Afghanistan today as they and US Marines handed over two huge adjacent bases to the Afghan military, 13 years after a US-led invasion launched the long and costly war against the Taliban.
US stocks ended near flat today, pausing after the S&P 500's biggest weekly gain since January 2013, while energy shares fell with another decline in oil prices.
US stocks ended near flat today, pausing after the S&P 500's biggest weekly gain since January 2013, while energy shares fell with another decline in oil prices.
A 5-year-boy who recently visited West Africa tested negative for the Ebola virus, said the New York City Health Department and the city hospital where he underwent screening.
Federal health officials have called for voluntary home quarantine for people at the highest risk for Ebola infection but said most medical workers returning from West Africa would require daily monitoring without isolation.
US stocks rose more than 1 percent, with the S&P 500 ending above its 50-day moving average for the first time in almost a month as strong earnings eased concerns about the outlook for corporate America.
A Texas nurse who contracted Ebola in the United States will be released from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta after being found free of the virus, the hospital said.
A total of 188 countries out of 193 voted against the restrictions that Washington holds against the Caribbean nation, which date back to 1962 - three years after Fidel Castro took power in a revolution against dictator Fulgencio Batista.
US stocks closed with slight losses today, finishing off their lows of the session, after the Federal Reserve ended its stimulative monthly bond-buying program and expressed confidence in US economic prospects.
US stocks closed with slight losses today, finishing off their lows of the session, after the Federal Reserve ended its stimulative monthly bond-buying program and expressed confidence in US economic prospects.
US government officials joined health experts from throughout the Americas at an Ebola conference in Cuba, the latest show of cooperation between the historic adversaries on fighting the disease.
The Federal Reserve ended its monthly bond purchase program and dropped a characterization of US labor market slack as "significant" in a show of confidence in the economy's prospects.
US stocks have risen, boosted by a strong reading on quarterly economic growth and by another round of upbeat earnings reports including Visa, which accounted for nearly 140 points in the Dow industrials.
The Dow and S&P 500 have ended at record highs and indexes posted strong gains for a second week after the Bank of Japan's surprise move to ramp up its stimulus program.
The confrontation between the state of Maine and a nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone heated up today when a judge issued a temporary order enforcing a quarantine after she defied state officials and took a bike ride.
One person was killed and a second person seriously injured today in the crash of a Virgin Galactic passenger spaceship during a test flight in the Mojave Desert in California, CNN and CNBC reported, citing the California Highway Patrol.
The only person in the United States currently being treated for Ebola has been upgraded to stable condition and a Dallas nurse who recovered from the disease was reunited with her dog which had been kept in quarantine as a precaution.
Iraqi Kurdish fighters have joined the fight against Islamic State militants in Kobani, hoping their support for fellow Kurds backed by US-led air strikes will keep the ultra-hardline group from seizing the Syrian border town.
The S&P 500 and the Dow closed with slight losses today after briefly touching intraday records, but strength in semiconductors boosted the Nasdaq.
The S&P 500 and the Dow closed with slight losses today after briefly touching intraday records, but strength in semiconductors boosted the Nasdaq.
Cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich said that the government has not received an official response from the US to the harsh letter president Kirchner sent to her counterpart Barack Obama demanding an explanation for the appointment of Nancy Soderberg as Chair of the US Public Interest Declassification Board.
Brittany Maynard, the 29-year-old woman who revived the debate on assisted suicide has ended her life on Saturday at her home in Portland, Oregon, as she had announced. "Goodbye world. Spread good energy. Pay it forward!," she wrote on Facebook.
Washington imposed tighter security screening for travelers from countries, including the United Kingdom and many other European nations, whose citizens do not need a visa to get into the United States.
A group of funds including George Soros's Quantum Partners LP and Kyle Bass's Hayman Capital Management LP asked a London judge to protect a 1.3 billion-euro ($1.6 billion) investment in Argentinian bonds from New York lawsuits, international news agencies reported today.
President of the United States Barack Obama and Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen discussed the outlook for the US and global economies and the implementation of Wall Street reforms during an Oval Office meeting, the White House said.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended lower today as another big drop in oil prices dragged down energy shares and Priceline's earnings forecast disappointed.
Republicans struck a powerful first blow in Kentucky in US congressional elections in their drive to control the US Senate and dramatically tip the balance of power away from Obama and his Democrats.
The US Department of State has backed the appointment of Nancy Soderberg as Chair of the Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB), saying her "responsibilities" as public servant are "not linked" with Argentina's dispute with the holdouts, local Telam news agency reported.
US stocks rose today, with both the S&P 500 and Dow advancing to records, after Republicans took control of the Senate, allaying fears of drawn-out runoffs and raising investor hopes for more business- and energy-friendly policies.
US stocks rose today, with both the S&P 500 and Dow advancing to records, after Republicans took control of the Senate, allaying fears of drawn-out runoffs and raising investor hopes for more business- and energy-friendly policies.
The cabinet chief said that the ATFA, a lobby representing holdout creditors, has "no dignity or moral authority to comment," in response to the group's criticism against President Kirchner's letter warning about "grave implications" after the appointment of ATFA's Nancy Soderberg as Chair of the US Public Interest Declassification Board.
Republicans rolled up big victories yesterday and seized control of the US Senate, in midterm elections that tipped the balance of power away from President Barack Obama and will complicate his remaining two years in office.
NML Capital, owned by billionaire Paul Singer, has filed a request to a Washington federal court to keep Argentine lawyer César Guido Forcieri, former World Bank director and alleged associate of Vice President Amado Boudou, in the United States.
US President Barack Obama acknowledged today that "Republicans had a good night" with sweeping election victories in Congress and said he got a message from voters that it was his responsibility to break a Washington gridlock.
US stocks edged up in a volatile session today, with the Dow and S&P 500 hitting fresh record closing highs on an indication that the European Central Bank would take more policy action if needed to boost a struggling euro zone economy.
Cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich defended the Sovereign Payment Law and stressed that whether bondholders join the new swap proposed by the government or not is no success rule.
Syrian government forces and allied armed groups recaptured a gas field from Islamic State fighters today, a monitoring group said.
The number of Ebola cases is surging in Sierra Leone due to a lack of treatment centres, the United Nations said, while scarcity of food may also be forcing some people to leave quarantined areas, risking further spread of the virus.
Members of the US Navy Seal commando team that killed Osama bin Laden at his Pakistan hideout in May, 2011 are making conflicting claims as to who actually shot the al Qaeda leader.
US stocks closed little changed today, pressured by renewed uncertainty in healthcare stocks and by Disney shares, even as October payrolls data pointed to a resilient economy in the face of sluggish global growth.
Etienne Simon-Loriere of the Pasteur Institut in Paris has his fingers crossed. He is heading to West Africa on Sunday to inspect blood samples gathered from Ebola patients in Guinea in hopes of tracing the path of the virus in the country where the current outbreak began.
A rapper known as Big Paybacc has been shot to death north of Los Angeles by an attacker who walked into a fast-food restaurant and fired at him several times from close range with a handgun, police said today.
US air strikes destroyed an Islamic State convoy near the Iraqi city of Mosul but US officials said today it was unclear whether the group's top commander Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been in any of the 10 targeted vehicles.
Two Americans freed from secretive North Korea stepped off a plane into the welcoming arms of family after the surprise involvement of the top-ranking US intelligence official who traveled to Pyongyang to bring them home.
Iraqi military forces have reached the centre of the northern city of Baiji in an effort to break an Islamic State siege of the country's biggest refinery, triggering fierce clashes with the militants, according to an army colonel and a witness.
The Dow and S&P 500 extended their run of record high closes for a fourth session today, led by transportation and healthcare shares.
US President Barack Obama said today a successful China was in the interests of the United States and the world but Beijing had to be a partner in underwriting international order, and not undermine it.
The Dow and S&P 500 eked out a fifth session of record closing highs today, barely extending the market's recent rally in light volume as consumer discretionary shares gained.
Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich considered the decision of US judge Thomas Griesa to allow Citibank to process an u$s 85 million payment by Argentina on restructured bonds under local laws as "not serious" and condemned the judge's "partial decisions that respond to pressure from vulture funds."
The US capital marked Veterans Day with ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery where Vice President Joe Biden said the 23 million US veterans were the backbone of the nation.
The United States has proposed that the International Monetary Fund write off some US$100 million in debt it is owed by Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to free up more resources for those countries, the hardest hit by the Ebola outbreak.
The Dow and S&P 500 ended slightly lower today, breaking their five-day streak of record closing highs as energy and utility shares lost ground, while the Nasdaq climbed.
China and the United States agreed to new limits on carbon emissions starting in 2025, but the pledge by the world's two biggest polluters appears to be more politically significant than substantive.
United Nations trade agency UNCTAD said today that the recent US court ruling on Argentina's debt erodes sovereign immunity and is not in compliance with the country's own US Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
Economy Minister, Axel Kicillof addressed today before a United Nations panel in New York, and explained the consequences of Judge Thomas Griesa ruling, while warning the country "could face a technical default" next Monday, if the sentence remains firm.
Special Master Daniel Pollack, the person appointed by US Judge Thomas Griesa to mediate in negotiations between Argentina and vulture funds, affirmed that "no agreement has been achieved yet."
Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich praised the "clear, categorical and broad" support for Argentina's stance in its dispute with vulture funds from 133 countries and specialized international media. "Argentina has reason on its side," he stated.
President Barack Obama, under pressure from some lawmakers to provide more help to Syria's opposition, asked the US Congress today to approve $500 million to train and equip moderate Syrian rebels seeking to oust President Bashar al-Assad.
US stocks ended modestly higher today, led by technology shares, though a downbeat second-quarter forecast from DuPont Co kept a lid on gains.
In an official press release, the federal government stated US Federal Judge Thomas Griesa attempted to "block the payment for bondholders" and committed an abuse of authority, after cancelling the deposit made to bondholders in a Bank of New York account.
The Obama administration is flying armed aircraft over Iraq, defense officials said today, adding that the flights were aimed at gathering intelligence and ensuring the safety of US personnel on the ground rather than conducting strikes.
A helium balloon carrying an experimental saucer-shaped NASA spacecraft floated off a launch tower at the US Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, today to test landing systems for future missions to Mars.
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite indexes wrapped up a sixth straight quarter of gains today, a streak not seen in more than 14 years. The three major US stock indexes, however, closed little changed for the day, following a set of mixed economic data.
Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich rejected the use of the term "technical default" in Argentina's legal battle against the so-called vulture funds, saying the country "regularly meets its obligations". He described Judge Thomas Griesa's ruling as "unprecedented" since it prevented bondholder from being paid.
Argentine Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel said he has sent a letter to US Judge Thomas Griesa who ruled against Argentina in its case against "holdout" creditors, urging him to "reflect on the debt".
A federal appeals court today revived a lawsuit against CACI International Inc in which the defense contractor's employees were accused of directing the torture of detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad.
The US Supreme Court ruled that business owners can object on religious grounds to a provision of President Barack Obama's healthcare law that requires closely held companies to provide health insurance that covers birth control.
Holders of Argentina Eurobonds asked US Judge Thomas Griesa for an emergency ruling to help them recover the funds deposited in the Bank of New York Mellon by the government last Thursday that the judge ordered to be returned to the country.
The Dow and the S&P 500 closed at record highs today as manufacturing activity picked up in the United States and Asia and increased optimism about the global economy's health.
JPMorgan Chase & Co Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said he has been diagnosed with throat cancer but that the ailment is curable and he plans to remain actively involved in the largest US bank's business.
US stocks ended one of their flattest sessions in years today as a positive read on private sector employment wasn't enough to interest buyers ahead of the highly anticipated June payrolls report.
US stocks ended one of their flattest sessions in years today as a positive read on private sector employment wasn't enough to interest buyers ahead of the highly anticipated June payrolls report.
Federal authorities in Denver arrested a woman today accused of providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group, designated as a foreign terrorist organization, court documents showed.
Wall Street's holiday-shortened session ended with multiple records today, with the Dow topping 17,000 for the first time after the June jobs report came in much stronger than expected.
Iran must drastically reduce its capacity to enrich uranium if it wants to reach a nuclear deal with six world powers that would lead to a gradual lifting of the crippling international sanctions on Tehran, a senior US official revealed today.
Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich came on stage today to say that "considering a technical default is a manoeuvre from the New York judge but not from the Argentine Republic."
The first hurricane of the Atlantic season has hit the North Carolina coast, a wet and windy spoiler of the July Fourth holiday for thousands of Americans as authorities ordered them to evacuate exposed areas.
The United States called for speedy investigation of an incident in which it said a US citizen of Palestinian descent appeared to have been badly beaten by Israeli paramilitary police during riots in East Jerusalem this week.
The German government wants a quick and clear explanation from Washington for US intelligence's apparent contact with a German man arrested last week on suspicion of being a double agent.
The US Transportation Security Administration will not allow cellphones or other electronic devices on US-bound planes at some overseas airports if the devices are not charged up, the agency said.
US stocks dipped today, retreating from last week's record levels as investors hesitated to make big bets before the start of earnings season.
Economy Minister Axel Kicillof today held a meeting that lasted almost four hours with the Special Master appointed by US Judge Thomas Griesa, Daniel Pollack, and requested that an injunction allowing Argentina to pay bondholders be reinstated while negotiations with holdouts developed.
The White House has announced that most unaccompanied minors flooding into the United States from Central America will not be allowed to stay as the Obama administration prepares to ask Congress for $2 billion to address the border crisis.
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the United States and Israel were playing "good cop, bad cop" to intimidate his country into making concessions on the nuclear dispute with the West.
US stocks fell in a broad selloff today, dropping for a second straight session and driving the Dow below 17,000 as investors turned cautious before the start of earnings season.
US stocks fell in a broad selloff today, dropping for a second straight session and driving the Dow below 17,000 as investors turned cautious before the start of earnings season.
Holders of Argentine bonds held through Luxembourg's Clearstream Clearing House joined Belgian bondholders in their demand to US Judge Thomas Griesa for an emergency ruling to help them recover the funds deposited in the Bank of New York Mellon by Argentina, blocked by the Judge.
Russia accused the United States of violating a bilateral treaty and "kidnapping" a Russian accused of hacking into US retailers' computer systems to steal credit card data.
US Secretary of State John Kerry congratulated the people of Argentina on the country's Independence Day on July 9 and wished the national team good luck in Brazil's World Cup.
US stocks finished higher today, rebounding from a sharp two-day selloff, after minutes from the last Federal Reserve meeting showed policymakers have started to detail how the central bank will end its easy monetary policy.
Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has asked Moscow to extend his asylum in Russia, his lawyer said. Russia granted Snowden a one-year visa in August 2013 despite the United States wanting Moscow to send him home to face criminal charges.
The Federal Reserve has begun detailing how it plans to ease the US economy out of an era of loose monetary policy, indicating it will end its asset purchases in October and appearing near agreement on a plan to manage interest rates in the future, according to minutes of the last Fed policy meeting.
Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman assured today "negotiations with 'vulture funds' are on the right track," in his first reaction since the meeting between Argentina's representatives and mediator Daniel Pollack, appointed by US Federal judge Thomas Griesa to lead the talks in New York.
Several people were shot to death today in the Houston suburb of Spring, Texas, the Harris County Sheriff's Office said, with local media reporting five people killed.
US stocks dropped today as concerns about the financial health of Portugal's top listed bank gave investors a reason to cash in recent gains.
US stocks dropped today as concerns about the financial health of Portugal's top listed bank gave investors a reason to cash in recent gains.
Germany has asked a US intelligence official at the embassy in Berlin to leave the country in connection with investigations into suspected spying in Germany, a German government spokesman said.
US authorities today agreed to ship the remains of 18 dinosaurs back to Mongolia after finding the smuggled fossils during a criminal investigation.
President Barack Obama expressed concern to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today about the risk of an escalation of hostilities in the region and said the United States was ready to help bring them to an end, the White House said.
JP Morgan bank, the entity responsible for the payment to Argentina's Japanese bondholders has sent a letter to US Federal Judge Thomas Griesa, requesting "a clarification" in order to deliver the funds to its creditors.
US Federal Reserve officials are cautiously nearing completion of a new plan for managing interest rates, concerned that some of the new tools they are likely to rely on could pose unintended risks in a crisis.
An airstrike outside a family home early Saturday pushed the Palestinian death toll past 100 in four days of cross-border fighting as Israel showed no sign of pausing despite international pressure to negotiate a ceasefire with the militants.
Vice President Joe Biden encouraged Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko today, to pursue talks that could lead to a ceasefire with rebels and said Washington continued to pursue efforts to raise pressure on Russia, the White House said.
Israeli navy commandos clashed with Hamas gunmen during a raid on the coast of the Gaza Strip today, the first such gunfight of a six-day Israeli offensive on the territory aimed at stopping Palestinian rocket fire.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said major differences persist between Iran and six world powers negotiating on Tehran's nuclear programme, remarks echoed by Tehran, with a July 20 deadline for a deal approaching.
US stocks ended higher today, with the Dow Jones industrial average hitting an intraday record, lifted by Citigroup's better-than-expected earnings and more deals in the healthcare space.
US stocks ended higher today, with the Dow Jones industrial average hitting an intraday record, lifted by Citigroup's better-than-expected earnings and more deals in the healthcare space.
US stocks closed mostly lower today, after the Federal Reserve, in an unusual statement, singled out the valuation of social media and biotechnology shares as "substantially stretched."
The US economic recovery remains incomplete, with a still-ailing job market and stagnant wages justifying loose monetary policy for the foreseeable future, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen told a Senate committee today.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, an undocumented immigrant and prominent immigration activist, was detained at an airport in McAllen, Texas, on Tuesday as he was passing through a security checkpoint, rights groups said.
North Korea has showed detailed photos of Kim Jong Un directing rocket launches from a site close to the South in an apparent act of defiance that puts a personal face of its leader to actions provoking its neighbours.
The White House said Central Americans trying to cross the US border should know "they will not be welcome," a day after the United States deported a planeload of women and children to Honduras.
Former US Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry Kissinger underwent heart surgery at a New York City hospital today and was resting comfortably, hospital officials said.
US stocks rose today, with the Dow Jones industrial average closing at a record high, boosted by the latest merger news and some strong corporate earnings.
US stocks rose today, with the Dow Jones industrial average closing at a record high, boosted by the latest merger news and some strong corporate earnings.
Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich bluntly rejected once again any possibility of Argentina falling into default and reiterated the government's willingness to negotiate, in response to a new ad published in local newspapers.
US District Judge Thomas Griesa in New York today said he would hear arguments on July 22 related to the banks and payment agents caught up in the Argentine sovereign debt case.
The United States today imposed its most wide-ranging sanctions yet on Russia's economy, including Gazprombank and the Rosneft Oil Co, and other major banks and energy and defense companies.
Israeli shelling killed four Palestinian boys on a Gaza beach today, an incident the military called tragic, and Israel and Hamas said they would cease attacks for five hours on Thursday for a humanitarian truce requested by the United Nations.
US stocks edged lower today in the wake of fresh US and European Union sanctions on Russia, but some stronger-than-expected earnings reports helped keep declines in check.
US stocks edged lower today in the wake of fresh US and European Union sanctions on Russia, but some stronger-than-expected earnings reports helped keep declines in check.
US President Barack Obama said today the crash of a Malaysian jetliner on the border of Ukraine was a "terrible tragedy" and the United States would offer any assistance necessary to help determine what happened and why.
US stocks rebounded and European markets recovered a bit today but the euro dipped below $1.35 for first time since February after a Malaysian airliner was downed in eastern Ukraine and Israel stepped up a ground assault in Gaza.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will travel to the Middle East on Saturday in a bid to end the fighting between Israel and Palestinians, alarmed at a serious escalation that includes a ground offensive by Israel, said a senior UN official.
Iran and six world powers today agreed to a four-month extension of negotiations on a long-term nuclear deal that would gradually end sanctions on Tehran in exchange for curbs on its nuclear programme, diplomats close to the talks said.
Israeli forces on Saturday pressed ahead with a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinian militants kept firing rockets deep into Israel's heartland, pushing the death toll past 300 in almost two weeks of conflict.
Israel fired shells into the Gaza Strip and militants kept up rocket fire into the Jewish state on Sunday with no sign of a diplomatic breakthrough to end the worst fighting between Israel and Hamas in two years.
A Florida jury has awarded the widow of a chain smoker who died of lung cancer 18 years ago record punitive damages of more than $23 billion in her lawsuit against the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, the nation's second-biggest cigarette maker.
Secretary of State John Kerry laid out what he said was overwhelming evidence of Russian complicity in the downing of a Malaysian airliner in eastern Ukraine as he made the US case against Moscow in the most emphatic and explicit terms yet.
US stocks slipped today as investors remained cautious about instability in Ukraine and Gaza, though the three major indexes ended well off their lows, a sign that some appetite for riskier assets remained.
United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has called for an immediate end to hostilities between Israeli troops and Hamas in Gaza, adding that events of the past days in the Palestinian territory were unacceptable as he spoke from Egypt.
US stocks rose today as some positive earnings and economic data pointed to a market that still had room to rise despite the S&P 500 hitting an intraday record.
US Secretary of State John Kerry urged Hamas to seek peace negotiations based on an Egyptian truce proposal that the Islamist militant group has rejected.
The United States will not rest until justice is done in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH-17 over eastern Ukraine, President Barack Obama vowed in a condolence book for the nearly 300 victims today.
US stocks ended mostly higher today, with the S&P 500 closing at a record on Apple's bullish results, though Boeing weighed on the Dow and conflicts in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip kept the broader market's gains in check.
US stocks ended mostly higher today, with the S&P 500 closing at a record on Apple's bullish results, though Boeing weighed on the Dow and conflicts in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip kept the broader market's gains in check.
US stocks ended a quiet session today as earnings painted a mixed picture of the economy, though the S&P 500 set another record closing high.
Israel won a partial reprieve from the economic pain of its Gaza war today with the lifting of a US and European ban on commercial flights to Tel Aviv, as fighting pushed the Palestinian death toll over 700.
The United States has claimed that Russia was firing artillery across the border into Ukraine to target Ukrainian military positions in the conflict against pro-Russian separatists, charges denied by representatives of the country.
US stocks closed lower today in a broad consumer discretionary-led selloff after Visa and Amazon, a pair of closely watched bellwether names, reported disappointing results.
In a brief, closed-door meeting, US mediator Daniel Pollack met with representatives of Argentina. "The dialogue process opened with the mediator will continue within the next days," a statement released by the Economy Ministry confirmed.
Israel and Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip have agreed to a UN requested 12 hour humanitarian truce to begin on Saturday morning, and efforts to secure a long-term cease-fire moved ahead.
Russia reacted angrily today to additional sanctions imposed by the European Union over Moscow's role in the Ukraine crisis, saying they would hamper cooperation on security issues and undermine the fight against terrorism and organized crime.
The United States evacuated its embassy in Libya today, driving diplomats across the border into Tunisia under heavy military escort after escalating clashes broke out between rival militias in Tripoli.
US stocks ended nearly flat today as the latest deal news offset losses following discouraging data on the housing market and some signs of weakness in the services sector.
Vice President Joe Biden told Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk that the United States would provide almost US$7 million in reconstruction aid to parts of eastern Ukraine, including US$1 million in new support, the White House said.
US stocks fell today, dropping in a broad selloff as a weak outlook from courier company UPS weighed on sentiment and pressured transportation stocks.
Today's meeting between an Argentine delegation and mediator Daniel Pollack in New York continue, with Economy minister Axel Kicillof flying in at the last minute to witness talks while the parties attempt to avoid possible default as a result of the ongoing dispute with holdout investors ahead of tomorrow's deadline.
A group of bondholders urged US Federal judge Thomas Griesa to apply a "temporary stay" from January 1st until January 15, 2015, or at least a 90 day measure in order to resolve current negotiations and prevent a new default.
Summoned through an emergency meeting, the Argentine private banks association (Adeba) held a reunion today in their Buenos Aires City HQ, where they agreed to offer the Government a 250 million dollar guarantee as a preventive measure to avoid a default.
Senator Patrick Leahy has introduced legislation to ban the US government's bulk collection of Americans' telephone records and Internet data and narrow how much information it can seek in any particular search.
The United Nations agency that looks after Palestinian refugees said it had found a cache of rockets at one of its schools in the Gaza Strip and deplored those who had put them there.
Daniel Pollack, the mediator appointed by US judge Griesa to resolve the dispute between Argentina and the so called vulture funds, affirmed the parts talked "face to face" for the first time and assured a new meeting will be confirmed during the day.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended higher today after the Federal Reserve gave a rosier assessment of the US economy while reaffirming that it is in no hurry to raise interest rates.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended higher today after the Federal Reserve gave a rosier assessment of the US economy while reaffirming that it is in no hurry to raise interest rates.
US stocks fell more than 1 percent today, with the S&P 500 on track for its worst daily decline since April and first monthly drop since January, as concerns mounted over the strength of overseas economies and ongoing tensions with Russia.
Sources in the US Consulate in Buenos Aires said they are not taking any interviews for visa applications as requested by the US Department of State, but expressed optimism that the problem, which is global, will be solved soon.
The Italian bondholders' legal representative Tullio Zembo said that the agreement private banks and holdouts are currently working on would trigger the Rights Upon Future Offers (RUFO) clause.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a travel advisory against non-essential travel to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in an effort to curb the spread of the ebola outbreak in West Africa that has so far claimed more than 700 lives.
Israel and Hamas have agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire in their conflict in the Gaza Strip starting on Friday, US Secretary of State John Kerry and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today.
Kevin Sullivan, US interim ambassador in Argentina affirmed today the country must seek "practical solutions" with the so called vulture funds over defaulted bonds.
US stocks ended lower for a second day and the S&P 500 posted its biggest weekly decline since 2012 today as concerns over Argentina's default continued to dog sentiment.
Government forces tightened the noose around the main stronghold of pro-Russian rebels in east Ukraine and, with diplomacy stalled, Moscow and the West stepped up their war of words.
Israel will go on fighting Hamas in the Gaza Strip even after the army completes its core mission of destroying the cross-border tunnels used by Palestinian militants to attack its territory, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
Some 500,000 residents in and around Toledo, Ohio were without safe drinking water for a second day today while local water supplies were being tested following the discovery of high toxin levels from algae on Lake Erie.
An American doctor stricken with the deadly Ebola virus while in Liberia and brought to the United States for treatment in a special isolation ward is improving, the top US health official said.
US stocks closed higher today, lifted in a late rally driven by earnings from Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and broad gains across most sectors that helped the S&P 500 rebound from its largest weekly drop since 2012.
US stocks closed higher today, lifted in a late rally driven by earnings from Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and broad gains across most sectors that helped the S&P 500 rebound from its largest weekly drop since 2012.
The US Secret Service cleared Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House today and closed one of its gates because of an unattended package in the area, witnesses said.
Former Finance Secretary Guillermo Nielsen today referred to the government's strategy towards vulture funds and said "the strategy of blasting the judge and the mediator has not been thought enough and will isolate the country."
James Brady, a former presidential press secretary critically wounded in the assassination attempt on US President Ronald Reagan, has died, a family spokeswoman said today. He was 73.
US stocks ended down today, nose-diving in the afternoon as concerns mounted over escalating tensions in Ukraine.
A US general was killed and more than a dozen people were wounded, including a German general, in the latest insider attack by a man believed to be an Afghan soldier, US, German and Afghan officials said.
Major US stock indexes ended little changed today, as tensions in Ukraine and Russia and a failed merger between Sprint and T-Mobile offset gains in consumer staples shares.
Major US stock indexes ended little changed today, as tensions in Ukraine and Russia and a failed merger between Sprint and T-Mobile offset gains in consumer staples shares.
US President Barack Obama said Ukraine did not need additional military assistance to help fight insurgents in the eastern part of the country but a Russian invasion would raise "a different set of questions."
US stocks ended lower today, continuing a recent streak of weakness as Russia's surprisingly harsh retaliatory measures in response to Western sanctions raised concerns about global growth.
Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, wanted by the United States for leaking extensive secrets of its electronic surveillance programmes, has been given a three-year residence permit by Russia, his Russian lawyer said.
The S&P and Dow both posted their best day since March today, with the market buoyed by news that Russia was ending military drills near the Ukrainian border, while investors overlooked US air strikes in Iraq.
A US State Department spokeswoman told Buenosairesherald.com that the US would not agree to grant jurisdiction in the International Court of Justice, following Argentina's intention to sue the US over its sovereign debt dispute.
Distancing herself from President Barack Obama's foreign policy, potential 2016 US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said in an interview that the US decision not to intervene early in the Syrian civil war was a "failure."
US stocks ended higher today, extending the rally from Friday as investors hoped that Russia's move to send humanitarian aid to Ukraine would ease tensions between the two countries.
US stocks ended higher today, extending the rally from Friday as investors hoped that Russia's move to send humanitarian aid to Ukraine would ease tensions between the two countries.
The cabinet chief reiterated that any ongoing negotiations between Argentinean private agents and holdouts "are not the state's concern or responsibility."
Iraq's president named a new prime minister to replace Nuri al-Maliki today, urging him to form a broad government that can stem communal bloodshed, but it was unclear whether Maliki would bow to US and Iranian pressure to step aside.
Iraq's president has named a new prime minister to end Nuri al-Maliki's eight year rule, but the veteran leader refused to go after deploying militias and special forces on the streets, creating a dangerous political showdown in Baghdad.
Gunshots rang out and police fired tear gas at rock-throwing rioters late last night in a second night of violence over the death of a black teenager shot by police in Ferguson, Missouri.
Iraq's new prime minister-designate won swift endorsements from uneasy mutual allies the United States and Iran as he called on political leaders to end crippling feuds that have let jihadists seize a third of the country.
President Barack Obama called the police shooting death of an unarmed black teenager a tragedy and called for thoughtful response after two nights of violent protests, looting, arrests and tear gas in a St. Louis suburb.
US stocks ended higher as surging biotech shares helped investors shrug off disappointing retail sales data.
US stocks advanced after conciliatory comments from Russia helped ease concerns about escalation of the conflict in Ukraine and offset some uninspiring earnings.
US stocks advanced after conciliatory comments from Russia helped ease concerns about escalation of the conflict in Ukraine and offset some uninspiring earnings.
Facing enormous pressure at home and abroad to step aside, Nuri al-Maliki dropped his bid for a third term as prime minister of Iraq and pledged support for his replacement, moderate Shi'ite Haider al-Abadi.
US stocks ended mixed, paring an earlier selloff sparked by reports of Ukraine shelling a Russian armored column.
Tribal leaders and clerics from Iraq's Sunni heartland said today they would be willing under certain conditions to join a new government that hopes to contain sectarian bloodshed and an offensive by Islamic State militants that threatens Baghdad.
Ukraine said its artillery destroyed part of a Russian armored column that entered its territory overnight and said its forces came under shellfire from Russia today in what appeared to be a major military escalation between the ex-Soviet states.
Holders of euro-denominated Argentine bonds have appealed judge Thomas Griesa's ruling blocking the country from making payments on their debt, according to a court filing.
Texas Governor Rick Perry was indicted by a grand jury in Texas on two counts of abuse of power and coercion over threats he made last year where he was seen as trying to force a local prosecutor to resign, news reports said.
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew in Ferguson following a week-long series of racially charged protests and looting over the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer.
One person was shot and critically wounded and seven arrested as police in Ferguson, Missouri, clashed with protesters when a curfew was imposed following days of unrest over a black teenager being shot dead by a white police officer.
US Attorney General Eric Holder ordered a federal autopsy of a teenager shot dead by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, seeking to assure the family and community there will be a thorough investigation into a death that has sparked days of protests.
US President Barack Obama has informed Congress he authorized US air strikes in Iraq to help retake control of the Mosul Dam, and that the action was consistent with his goal of protecting US citizens.
US stocks surged today, with the Nasdaq closing at a 14-year high as increasing homebuilder confidence and hopes for receding tensions in Russia gave investors reasons to make bigger bets on the equity market.
US stocks surged today, with the Nasdaq closing at a 14-year high as increasing homebuilder confidence and hopes for receding tensions in Russia gave investors reasons to make bigger bets on the equity market.
Missouri's governor said he would send the National Guard into the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson to restore calm after authorities forcibly dispersed a crowd protesting last week's fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen by police.
The black teenager whose killing by a white police officer has set off a week of protests and rioting in Ferguson, Missouri, was struck by at least six bullets, a lawyer for the deceased's family said.
Iraqi Kurdish forces said they recaptured Iraq's biggest dam from Islamist militants, as the United States launched air strikes to secure what has become a vital strategic objective in fighting that threatens to break up the country.
The Islamic State militant group that has seized large parts of Iraq and drawn the first US air strikes since the end of the occupation in 2011 has warned the United States it will attack its citizens "in any place" if the raids hit its militants.
US stocks ended higher for the second straight session, as robust housing data and strong earnings from Dow component Home Depot overshadowed lingering concerns about the conflict in Ukraine.
US stocks ended higher for the second straight session, as robust housing data and strong earnings from Dow component Home Depot overshadowed lingering concerns about the conflict in Ukraine.
Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich, Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman and Ministry of Foreign Affairs Legal Adviser Susana Ruiz Cerrutti were addressing reporters this morning to discuss Argentina's legal action against the US at the Hague over its dispute with holdout hedge funds.
Police came under "heavy gunfire" and 31 people were arrested, authorities said, during racially charged protests in Ferguson, Missouri sparked by the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white policeman 10 days ago.
Islamic State insurgents released a video purportedly showing the beheading of US journalist James Foley, who had gone missing in Syria nearly two years ago.
US Attorney General Eric Holder visited Ferguson, Missouri, hours after nearly 50 protesters were arrested in the 11th straight night of demonstrations over the killing of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer.
US President Barack Obama has affirmed that the beheading of American journalist James Foley by Islamic State militants "shocked the conscience of the entire world" and he vowed the United States would do what it must to protect its citizens.
The US Supreme Court has stopped gay marriage in Virginia from going ahead, staying an appeals court ruling that had struck down a state ban.
The US Federal Reserve hinted that a surprisingly strong jobs market recovery could lead it to raise interest rates earlier than it had been anticipating.
US stocks ended higher today, with the S&P 500 at a record after a flurry of positive economic data, as investors hoped for signs from an annual meeting of central bankers that interest-rate hikes are not imminent.
Bank of America Corp has reached a $16.65 billion settlement with US regulators to settle charges that it misled investors into buying troubled mortgage-backed securities.
The sophistication, wealth and military might of Islamic State militants represent a major threat to the United States that may surpass that once posed by al Qaeda, US military leaders said.
European investors holding 5.2 billion dollars of restructured Argentine bonds are negotiating the removal of the Rights Upon Future Options (RUFO) clause that the country claims prevents them from negotiating with vulture funds, sources close to the meetings informed today.
Stocks ended mostly lower as Ukraine-Russia tensions reignited and remarks from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen failed to give investors more clues on interest rate hikes.
The Washington Post editorial board will generally avoid using the word "Redskins" when referring to Washington's football team, it announced, saying the term denigrates Native Americans.
The Federal Reserve should move cautiously in deciding when to raise interest rates given the US labor market remains bruised from the Great Recession, Fed Chair Janet Yellen said amid calls from policy hawks for a near-term rate hike.
National Guard troops began departing Ferguson, Missouri, in a sign authorities are increasingly confident they have quelled the worst of the violence that erupted after a white police officer fatally shot an unarmed black teenager.
US President Barack Obama has ordered a review of the distribution of military hardware to state and local police out of concern at how such equipment has been used during racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri.
A 6.0 magnitude earthquake rocked wine country north of San Francisco early today, injuring dozens of people, two of them seriously, damaging historic buildings, setting some homes on fire and causing power outages around the picturesque town of Napa.
Kidnappers in Syria today freed a US journalist missing since 2012 following Qatari efforts to win his release.
The S&P 500 was unable to hold the 2,000 mark after moving above the milestone level for the first time today, but still managed to close at a record high, buoyed by financials and biotechnology stocks.
Al Qaeda-linked militants in Syria freed an American writer missing since 2012 following what officials said were efforts by the Gulf Arab state of Qatar to win his release.
Following a report of an "active shooter incident" earlier today in US Fort Lee Army base in King George County, Virginia, the authorities cleared the incident through its Facebook verified account saying a female soldier "turned the weapon on herself and fired one shot, injuring herself."
US stocks edged higher to lift the S&P 500 just a hair above the 2,000 mark, its first close above that milestone, after data that pointed to a brighter future for the economy.
US stocks were little changed, with the S&P 500 creeping up to another record closing high in a lethargic session, though a number of retail stocks traded heavily after reporting results.
US stocks were little changed, with the S&P 500 creeping up to another record closing high in a lethargic session, though a number of retail stocks traded heavily after reporting results.
Economy Minister Axel Kicillof spoke before the Budget and Foreign Affairs Committees of the Senate as a new round of talks began over a bill that if approved would allow for the voluntary payment of the country's creditors in Buenos Aires.
Ukraine accused Russia of launching a new military incursion across its eastern border, as hopes quickly faded that Tuesday's talks between their two presidents might mark a turning point in a five-month-old crisis.
A joint mission of the United Nations and the global anti-chemical arms watchdog that has overseen the destruction of Syria's toxic gas stocks will shut down on Sept. 30 though a successor unit will continue investigating, the UN chief said.
The United States is intensifying its push to build an international campaign against Islamic State jihadist fighters in Iraq and Syria, including recruiting partners for potential joint military action, Obama administration officials said.
US stocks edged lower after the latest tension between Ukraine and Russia snapped the focus of investors back to the volatile region, but US economic data helped curb losses.
The US economy rebounded more strongly than initially thought in the second quarter and details of a report today pointed to sustainable underlying strength.
President Barack Obama said the United States and its allies would look for ways to expand economic sanctions on Russia after Kiev accused Moscow of moving troops into southeastern Ukraine, but he stopped short of calling the recent Russian aggression an invasion.
US stocks closed out a strong month on a quiet note, with the S&P 500 posting a modest gain to close at a new record as the latest positive data helped extend a rally that had been briefly threatened by overseas concerns.
European shares edged higher to close near a recent one-month peak today, with merger and acquisition speculation about British broadcaster ITV helping media stocks and Novartis leading drugmakers.
US stocks ended mostly lower today, retreating from records set the previous month, as falling crude oil prices dragged energy shares down and offset strong manufacturing data.
The Islamic State militant group has released a video purporting to show the beheading of a second American hostage, journalist Steven Sotloff, raising the stakes in its confrontation with Washington over US air strikes on its insurgents in Iraq.
A US military airstrike in Somalia has targeted the leader of the Islamist militant group al Shabaab, but officials added it may take time to determine whether Ahmed Abdi Godane was killed.
President Barack Obama has ordered about 350 more troops to Baghdad to protect the US Embassy in the Iraqi capital and is sending top officials to the Middle East to "build a stronger regional partnership" against Islamic State militants, the White House said.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott declined to rule out sending combat troops to support US air strikes in Iraq, amid a growing confrontation with radical Islamists who have seized large swaths of that country and neighbouring Syria.
US stocks ended mostly down today, as a decline in Apple shares dragged the Nasdaq lower and investors held off on big bets before the European Central Bank's upcoming policy meeting.
The United States plans to fight Islamic State until it is no longer a force in the Middle East and will seek justice for the killing of American journalist Steven Sotloff, US President Barack Obama said today.
President Vladimir Putin outlined plans for a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine but Ukraine's prime minister dismissed the proposal, while France expressed its disapproval of Moscow's support for separatist forces by halting delivery of a warship.
US stocks opened slightly higher today, after the European Central Bank cut interest rates to record lows and a flurry of economic data indicated the US economy was steadily improving. Both the Dow and S&P 500 touched record intraday highs after the ECB's surprise move but later eased.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and the main pro-Russian rebel leader said they would both order ceasefires tomorrow, provided that an agreement is signed on a new peace plan to end the five month war in Ukraine's east.
By Damian Pachter Oren Kessler is a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society in London, and was a friend of Steven Sotloff, the US-Israeli journalist beheaded by the Islamic State. He talked and shared his thoughts in this exclusive interview with the BuenosAiresHerald.com.
Eighteen foreign fighters from the Islamic State, including an American jihadist, were killed in a Syrian air raid on a town near the militant group's main stronghold city of Raqqa in eastern Syria, a human rights monitoring group said.
US stocks ended higher, lifting the S&P 500 to a fresh closing high, after a weaker-than-expected jobs report was taken as a sign that the Federal Reserve will not begin raising interest rates anytime soon.
The Pentagon confirmed today that Ahmed Abdi Godane, a leader of the al Shabaab Islamist group, was killed in a US airstrike in Somalia this week, calling it a "major symbolic and operational loss" for the al Qaeda-affiliated militants.
A charter aircraft flying from the US airbase at Bagram in Afghanistan to Dubai was re-routed to Bandar Abbas, Iran, because of "issues with the flight plan," a US State Department official said.
Nearly 1,000 people including relatives, friends and prominent Florida politicians attended a memorial service for Steven Sotloff, who was killed by Islamic State militants, recalling him as a journalist committed to revealing the truth.
A chartered aircraft carrying about 100 Americans from the US airbase at Bagram, Afghanistan, has left for Dubai after it was diverted to Iran because of issues with its flight plan, a US official and the Fly Dubai airline said.
Arab League foreign ministers have agreed to take all necessary measures to confront Islamic State and cooperate with international, regional and national efforts to combat militants who have overrun swathes of Iraq and Syria.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has alleged that the United States is supporting holdout investors in their dispute with Argentina over debt defaulted in 2001, as a way of punishing the country for the memorandum of understanding signed with Iran to advance investigations into the AMIA bombing.
The Dow and S&P 500 ended lower after a drop in energy shares, while the Nasdaq edged higher with Yahoo.
US warplanes carried out five strikes on Islamic State insurgents menacing Iraq's Haditha Dam today, witnesses and officials said, widening what President Barack Obama called a campaign to curb and ultimately defeat the jihadist movement.
Twitter Inc is testing a "buy" button in some tweets that allows a mobile user to buy directly from a tweet.
Pro-Russian separatists have so far handed over about 1,200 prisoners-of-war to the Ukrainian side under the terms of a ceasefire agreement, President Petro Poroshenko said.
No interior or defence minister was named but Abadi pledged to do so within a week. Adel Abdel Mehdi from the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq was named oil minister while Ibrahim Jafaari, a former premier, was named foreign minister.
A fourth Ebola patient will be flown to the United States by air ambulance from West Africa to receive treatment for the deadly disease, hospital officials in Atlanta said.
US stocks fell today as Apple shares declined and as bond yields hit their highest in a month on concerns the Federal Reserve could raise interest rates sooner than some investors had expected.
Torrential rains drenched much of the US Southwest today, prompting flash-flood warnings across four states and taking the lives of two women washed away in separate incidents in Arizona.
US stocks advanced, supported by banks' strong earnings, but Boeing limited the Dow's gain after an airplane fire in London.
Supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi called for protests and Egyptians prayed there would be no repeat of clashes that have killed more than 90 people in the last week in the bitterly divided Arab nation.
Egypt announced a criminal investigation against deposed Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, with prosecutors saying they were examining complaints of spying, inciting violence and ruining the economy.
US Justice, Treasure and State Department officials met with lawyers both from Argentina and vulture funds that refused to accept the South American country's debt swap, The Washington Post reported.
The first senior US official to visit Egypt since the army toppled its elected president met with officials today to urge them to swiftly restore democracy, while thousands of supporters of the ousted Islamist leader take to the streets.
Police have arrested a man after he was seen taking a photograph of US Secretary of State John Kerry's home in Boston.
Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman today said that during the Mercosur summit held last week in Montevideo, Uruguay, he was handed in documentation by an intelligence service of another country which contained confidential information of Argentine top officials and opposition leaders.
Police fired tear gas in central Cairo on Monday when protesters calling for the reinstatement of the ousted Islamist president, Mohamed Mursi, scuffled with drivers and passers-by annoyed that they had blocked major roads.
The dollar eased and US stocks fell on Tuesday, snapping an eight-day advance by the benchmark S&P 500 index, as investors took a cautious stance ahead of the Federal Reserve chief's testimony to a US congressional panel on Wednesday.
Seven people died and more than 260 were wounded when supporters of Mohamed Morsi clashed with the deposed Egyptian president's opponents and security forces through the night, with the return of bloodshed overshadowing the naming of a new interim cabinet.
The White House said that former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, who applied for temporary asylum in Russia, should be expelled and returned to the United States to face trial on espionage charges.
U.S. stocks ended modestly higher on Wednesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the timeline for winding down the U.S. central bank's stimulus program was not set in stone.
Supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi called for more mass demonstrations, declaring a "day of steadfastness" to protest against the formation of a new interim cabinet, which began its first day on the job.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said today the US central bank still expects to start scaling back its massive asset purchase program later this year, but left open the option of changing that plan in either direction if the economic outlook shifted.
Egypt avoided a possible civil war this month, US Secretary of State John Kerry said, making it hard for Washington to conclude that the overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi was a military coup.
The Dow and the S&P 500 closed at record highs on Thursday after Morgan Stanley and others reported better-than-expected earnings and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's comments further reassured markets.
Stock markets around the world retreated as some disappointing corporate results pushed investors to take profits after a string of gains that took major US indexes to record levels.
The US will not file a brief asking the Supreme Court to review Argentina's case in a decades-old battle between the South American country and "holdout" creditors, a Justice Department spokesman said.
Investors dumped Detroit's municipal bonds a day after the city's historic bankruptcy filing even as a ruling in state court raised questions about whether the bankruptcy will stand up to court review.
President Barack Obama can go ahead with a plan for the United States to arm the struggling Syrian rebels after some congressional concerns were eased, a key Republican lawmaker said.
After reports said earlier that former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden was granted documents that would allow him to leave the Moscow airport. his lawyer said Snowden will stay in that transit zone.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said today that he expects Congress will pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill that President Barack Obama will sign into law.
A US spy program that sweeps up vast amounts of electronic communications survived a legislative challenge in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, the first move to curb the surveillance effort since a worker leaked details of its scope.
Egypt's army threatened on Thursday to shoot those who use violence in a stark warning before what both sides expect will be a bloody street showdown between Islamists and opponents of deposed President Mohamed Morsi.
New disclosures of explicitly sexual online chats have cost former Congressman Anthony Weiner the lead in the New York City mayor's race and helped City Council Speaker Christine Quinn pull ahead among Democratic voters, according to a recent poll released.
Military prosecutors called the US soldier accused of the largest leak of classified information in the nation's history a "traitor" for releasing documents on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
US stocks finished mostly flat, though a rally in Amazon.com shares a day after the online retailer's results helped boost the Nasdaq.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is determined not to allow a dispute over former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden to harm Moscow's ties with Washington, his spokesman said today.
According to reports revealed today by official news agency Télam, the French government will back Argentina in its decade-old legal battle with holdout creditors.
Egypt's leaders must pull their country "back from the brink," US Secretary of State John Kerry stated, saying Egypt was at a pivotal moment after the killing of dozens of protesters.
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators plan to resume peace talks in Washington this week after nearly three years, according to the US State Department.
The FBI arrested 150 people across the United States for holding children against their will for prostitution, a three-day weekend sweep that officials today called the largest-ever operation of its kind.
US Secretary of State John Kerry called on Monday for Israel and the Palestinians to make "reasonable compromises" for peace as he prepared to preside over their first direct negotiations in nearly three years.
The US power regulator outlined its case of market manipulation against JPMorgan Chase & Co as industry sources said a final settlement on the issue should come on Tuesday.
Former Deputy US Attorney General James Comey, a Republican who gained fame when he refused to sanction a government surveillance initiative in 2004, won Senate confirmation as President Barack Obama's pick to head the FBI.
Israel and the Palestinians will seek to reach a peace agreement within nine months and negotiators will meet again within two weeks after holding a "positive" first round of talks, US Secretary of State John Kerry said today.
A military judge today found US soldier Bradley Manning not guilty of aiding the enemy, the most serious charge among many he faced for handing over documents to WikiLeaks.
US stocks extended gains in volatile trading today after the Federal Reserve gave no hint that a reduction in the pace of its bond-buying program is imminent.
As US Congress increasingly scrutinizes surveillance programs, the US government today released declassified documents on the mass collection of telephone data in a rare glimpse into the world of intelligence gathering.
US Secretary of State John Kerry landed in Pakistan today on an unannounced visit for talks with the nuclear armed country's new government on ways to tame insurgents and stabilize neighbouring Afghanistan.
New revelations from former security contractor Edward Snowden that US intelligence agencies have access to a vast online tracking tool came to light as lawmakers put the secret surveillance programs under greater scrutiny.
The Dow and S&P 500 ended at record highs on Thursday, with the S&P 500 rising above 1,700 after strong data on service-sector growth and as central banks said they would keep monetary stimulus in place.
Fugitive former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden slipped quietly out of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport after being granted a year's asylum in Russia, ending more than five weeks in limbo in the transit area.
Iran's president-elect today said Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands was a "wound" on the Muslim world, in remarks shown on state television that differed sharply from an earlier local news agency report on his comments.
The United States issued a worldwide travel alert today, warning US citizens about the "continued potential for terrorist attacks, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa."
The Obama administration is signaling its hopes for an easing of nuclear tensions after Iranian President-elect Hassan Rouhani takes office, but holding off on substantive moves until the moderate cleric shows a willingness to negotiate seriously.
Senior US and European envoys met the foreign minister of Egypt's army-installed government in a push to resolve the political crisis brought on by the overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi and to head off more bloodshed.
The al Qaeda threat that closed US embassies in the Middle East is the most serious in years and the "chatter" among suspected terrorists is reminiscent of what preceded the Sept. 11 attacks, a US lawmaker who is briefed on intelligence said.
The United States said it is prepared to work with the new government of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to address concerns about Iran's nuclear program if Iran will engage seriously on the issue.
Syrian rebels battled forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in the Jabal Akrad mountains overlooking the Mediterranean on Sunday and a monitoring group said at least 30 people were killed.
Britain and France extended the closure of their embassies in Yemen today after a US warning of a possible militant attack in the region, and the Arab state said it was stepping up security at ports and airports.
The Washington Post Co has agreed to sell its newspaper assets, including its flagship daily, to Amazon Inc founder Jeff Bezos for $250 million.
In a recent letter to Republican senator Mark Kirk, the US State Department said that in light of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman's report on Iran, they were now reevaluating the information in their highly criticized May report on Iranian activity in the West.
Wall Street drifted lower as investors found few reasons to buy stocks, but European shares and the euro were supported by data that showed a surge in factory output in Britain and Germany.
Iran's new President Hassan Rouhani offered an olive branch to the United States in talks on Tehran's disputed nuclear programme, raising hopes of progress after years of stalemate.
The United States told its citizens in Yemen to leave immediately and airlifted out some US government personnel, following warnings of potential attacks that have pushed Washington to shut diplomatic missions across the Middle East.
The United States will hold talks with Russia's defense and foreign ministers in Washington despite Moscow's decision to grant asylum to former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, US officials said.
US stocks lost ground for a third consecutive session on growing uncertainty over when the Federal Reserve may start to wind down its stimulus, which has been a driving force behind the rally in equities this year.
A US drone killed at least six suspected al Qaeda militants in southern Yemen officials said, a day after US and British embassies evacuated some staff because of growing fears of attacks.
The father of Edward Snowden, the fugitive former US spy agency contractor, has predicted that Russian President Vladimir Putin will stand up to pressure from Washington as the two nations spar over Moscow's decision to grant his son asylum.
An unmanned Delta 4 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Wednesday carrying a communications satellite for the US military and its partners, including Australia, which paid for the spacecraft and launch services.
US stocks rose, rebounding after three days of declines, led by gains in the technology sector.
A pair of rare Sumatran tiger cubs has been born at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C., under a program designed to help the species survive.
The US National Security Agency, hit by disclosures of classified data by former contractor Edward Snowden, said it intends to eliminate about 90 percent of its system administrators to reduce the number of people with access to secret information.
US stock index futures pointed to a lower open today, putting major indexes on track for their worst week since June, as investors found few reasons to buy with equity prices near record levels.
The US government ordered the evacuation of non-essential staff from its consulate in the northeastern Pakistani city of Lahore today due to the threat of attack, with the State Department also warning US citizens not to travel to Pakistan.
President Barack Obama announced plans to limit sweeping US government surveillance programs that have come under criticism since leaks by a former spy agency contractor, saying the United States "can and must be more transparent."
Eighteen of the 19 US embassies closed this month due to worries about potential terrorist attacks will reopen on Sunday, the US State Department said.
US and Russian officials agreed on the need to convene a long-delayed Syrian peace conference in Geneva as soon as possible, but they offered no concrete plan to bring the warring government and rebels to the table.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has called President Barack Obama's announcement of plans to limit sweeping US government surveillance programs a victory of sorts for fugitive former spy agency contractor Edward Snowden.
Gun attacks and a bombing killed at least seven more people in Iraq today, police said, after a day of carnage aimed mainly at Shi'ite Muslims celebrating the end of Ramadan.
Angela Merkel's chief of staff said on Monday that fears of mass US spying on Germans were unfounded, hoping to end a controversy that threatened to damage the chancellor as she seeks re-election next month.
Argentina Foreigjn Minister Héctor Timerman has strongly criticised a supposed "anti-Argentina campaign" carried out by members of the vulture funds in the US Congress, as he met with legislators from the country in a summit.
Israel freed 26 Palestinian prisoners to keep US sponsored peacemaking on course for a second round of talks, but diplomacy remained dogged by Israeli plans for more Jewish homes on land the Palestinians claim for a future state.
The United States has asked Mexico to detain freed drug kingpin Rafael Caro Quintero to face charges brought decades ago by a US court, the Mexican attorney general's office said, setting the stage for a formal extradition request.
Security forces struggled to clamp a lid on Egypt after hundreds of people were killed when authorities forcibly broke up camps of supporters protesting the ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, in the worst nationwide bloodshed in decades.
The UN Security Council urged all parties in Egypt to end the violence and exercise maximum restraint after hundreds of people were killed when troops and police crushed protests seeking the return of deposed President Mohamed Mursi.
The military judge who will determine how long US soldier Bradley Manning will spend in prison for the biggest breach of classified data in the nation's history said she found that his acts were "wanton and reckless."
The Muslim Brotherhood defiantly called for a week of protests across Egypt starting on Saturday, a day after more than 100 people died in clashes between Islamists and the security forces that pushed the country ever closer to anarchy.
The journalist who first published secrets leaked by fugitive former US intelligence agency contractor Edward Snowden vowed today to publish more documents and said Britain will be "sorry" for detaining his partner for nine hours.
British officials gave their US counterparts a "heads up" before detaining the partner of the journalist who first reported secrets leaked by fugitive US intelligence agency contractor Edward Snowden.
US Army prosecutors have urged a military judge to sentence Bradley Manning to at least 60 years in prison for leaking secret files to WikiLeaks in the biggest breach of classified data in US history.
US bond yields retreated from two-year highs on revived safe-haven bids as prices on most world stock exchanges fell to the lowest level in over a month on concerns that less US monetary stimulus will hamper global growth.
Egypt's army-backed government detained the Muslim Brotherhood's leader after a bloody crackdown on his supporters, underscoring its intention to crush the movement that had propelled the country's first freely elected president to power.
An explosion today morning rocked Naval Weapons Station Earle near the Jersey Shore, and fire trucks, ambulances and a medical emergency helicopter rushed to the scene, authorities said.
Global equity markets and bond prices slid while the dollar strengthened after minutes from the latest Federal Reserve policy-setting meeting did not alter expectations the Fed would eventually begin to trim its bond-buying program.
Only a few Federal Reserve policymakers thought it would soon be time to "slow somewhat" the pace of the central bank's bond-buying at a meeting last month, while others emphasized patience in deciding when to start to wind down the stimulus program.
Prison guards gave one of the alleged 9/11 conspirators a copy of the erotic novel "Fifty Shades of Grey," according to a defense lawyer who suggested that the unwanted gift was part of a campaign aimed at discrediting his client.
Syria's opposition accused government forces of gassing hundreds of people by firing rockets that released deadly fumes over rebel-held Damascus suburbs, killing men, women and children as they slept.
Global equity markets gained today after business surveys from around the world reflected a global economy in expansion, helping cement expectations the Federal Reserve will trim its bond-buying stimulus program in September.
Stocks rose in light trading, led by a jump in Microsoft shares, as trading took place without interruption a day after the Nasdaq stock exchange suffered an unprecedented, three-hour trading halt.
President Barack Obama called the apparent gassing of hundreds of Syrian civilians a "big event of grave concern" but stressed that he would not rush to embroil Americans in a costly new war.
Mass protests called by Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood mostly failed to materialize today as the movement reeled from a bloody army crackdown on followers of ousted President Mohamed Morsi.
Argentina today lost its appeal of a US judge's order requiring that it pay $1.33 billion to bondholders that did not participate in two restructurings following the country's historic $100 billion default more than a decade ago. The 2nd Circuit said enforcement of the injunctions would be stayed, pending resolution of an appeal of an earlier decision last year to the US Supreme Court, and avoiding a technical default by Argentina.
After a US appeal court ruling on Argentina's fight with bondholders the Merval index in Buenos Aires Stock Exchange dropped one percent to 3,903.21 points, while the country risk tightened 3.7 percent to 1,061 basis points.
British Prime Minister David Cameron and US President Barack Obama agreed on Saturday on the need to deter the use of chemical weapons, and were concerned about "increasing signs" that Syria attacked civilians, a spokesperson for Cameron said.
Hedge funds celebrated the decision by the Second US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, denying the payment strategy presented by the national Government to cancel an unpaid debt from 2001.
Economy minister Hernán Lorenzino has spoken out about the New York court pro-vulture funds ruling stating that the decision by judge Thomas Griesa was an "attempt to take the country back to 2001".
Syria has agreed to let the United Nations inspect the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack from Monday onwards, but a US official said any such offer would be "too late to be credible" and there was little doubt the government was to blame.
US stocks opened the week's trading with a drop, after data showed a steep fall in orders for long-lasting manufactured goods last month.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has laid the groundwork for possible military action against the Syrian government over a suspected chemical weapons attack, implicating President Bashar al-Assad's forces in a "moral obscenity."
The Arab League has determined that those behind the chemical attack in Syria should face international justice, and called on U.N. Security Council members to overcome their differences and take action to end the killing there.
A wildfire raging in the northwest part of Yosemite National Park was expected to advance farther into the park and continue to threaten a reservoir that supplies most of San Francisco's water.
Concerns about a possible US-led military strike on Syria sent oil prices higher on Wednesday and triggered a safe-haven run to gold and the dollar. Wall Street meanwhile recovered after a difficult day's trading on Tuesday to close with some modest gains.
A wildfire in Yosemite National Park that ranks as one of the largest California blazes on record was set to force the closure of a key route to the premiere outdoor destination and possibly block some visitors from reaching the park over the Labor Day weekend.
Words from the first black US president and bell ringing around the world will mark 50 years to the minute that civil rights leader Martin Luther King ended his landmark "I have a dream" speech.
The leaders of Germany and Britain believe that Syria's government should not to go unpunished for an apparent poison gas attack on its own people, Berlin said.
Barack Obama vowed that the Syrian government would face "international consequences" for last week's deadly chemical attack, but made clear any military response would be limited to avoid dragging the United States into another war in the Middle East.
US stocks closed modestly higher as the economy showed signs of improvement, but uncertainty over possible military action against Syria continued to pressure markets.
Argentina has officially condemned the West's intents for a strike on Syria saying a military intervention could "aggravate" the country's domestic scenario and repudiated the use of chemical weapons.
In a move marijuana advocates hailed as a historic shift, the Obama administration began giving US states wide leeway to experiment with pot legalization and started by letting Colorado and Washington carry out new laws permitting recreational use.
Stocks fell and US Treasury prices gained after Secretary of State John Kerry made a forceful case for the United States to punish Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as he released evidence the Syrian government used chemical weapons to attack civilians.
France said it still backed action to punish Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government for an apparent poison gas attack on civilians, despite a British parliamentary vote against it.
Prime Minister David Cameron said he regretted the failure of the British parliament to support military action in Syria but that he hoped President Barack Obama would understand the need to listen to the wishes of the people.
Thousands of supporters of ousted Mohamed Morsi marched in Cairo and other cities to demand his reinstatement, ignoring warnings that security forces would open fire if protests turned violent.
France said it still backed military action to punish Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government for an apparent poison gas attack and Washington pushed ahead with plans for a response despite a British parliamentary vote against a military strike.
The United States made clear that it would punish Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for the "brutal and flagrant" chemical weapons attack that it says killed more than 1,400 people in Damascus last week.
President Barack Obama discussed Syria in phone calls with British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande, a senior administration official said.
A team of UN experts finished gathering evidence of a suspected chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds of people in suburbs near Damascus last week, the United Nations announced, though envoys said analyzing the samples may take weeks.
UN experts left Syria after investigating a poison gas attack that killed hundreds while the United States said it was planning a limited response to punish President Bashar al-Assad for the "brutal and flagrant" assault.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin said it would be "utter nonsense" for the Syrian government to use chemical weapons and urged US President Barack Obama not to attack Syrian forces.
French President Francois Hollande reaffirmed to US President Barack Obama in a telephone call his will to sanction Syria for a chemical attack this month, a source close to Hollande told Reuters.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday tests showed that sarin nerve gas was used in a deadly Aug. 21 chemical attack near Damascus as he sought to build the case to convince skeptical lawmakers to authorize a military strike against the Syrian government.
Syria has asked the United Nations to prevent "any aggression" against Syria following a call over the weekend by US President Barack Obama for punitive strikes against the Syrian military for last month's chemical weapons attack.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad scorned allegations that his forces were behind the chemical attack in Damascus last month and warned that any French military action against his government would lead to "negative repercussions".
US stocks rose today after President Barack Obama opted to seek congressional authorization for military action against Syria, a move that was likely to delay any strike for at least several days.
President Barack Obama urged quick congressional action authorizing the use of military force against Syria and won the support of leaders from both parties in the House of Representatives for limited strikes against President Bashar al-Assad's forces.
In a new peace call facing the Syrian crisis, Pope Francis urged world leaders to prevent the war in the Arab country. "We want peace to burst in our society ravaged by divisions and conflicts," the head of the Catholic Church said in his official Twitter account.
Secretary of State John Kerry has urged Congress not to limit US authority to strike Syria "to one specific moment," saying the US military had follow-on strike options should President Bashar al-Assad use chemical weapons in the future.
Leaders of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee said they reached an agreement on a draft authorization for the use of military force in Syria that was much narrower than the request made by President Barack Obama, paving the way for a vote by the committee.
US stocks ended higher for a second day on strong auto sales and as a possible military action in Syria was seen as limited.
Advanced economies led by the United States will increasingly drive global growth while emerging countries are at risk of slowing due to tighter US monetary policy, the International Monetary Fund said in a note obtained by Reuters today.
A column signed by Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz named "The Vulture's victory" stressed "a recent decision by a United States appeals court threatens to upend global sovereign-debt markets."
Secretary of State John Kerry said a US military strike on Syria over its chemical weapons use was unlikely to provoke a clash with Russia, a key Syrian ally that has blocked efforts to sanction Damascus at the UN Security Council.
More than 40 years after the last Apollo astronauts left the moon, NASA is preparing to launch a small robotic spacecraft to investigate one of their most bizarre discoveries.
The Argentine Senate has approved plans to reopen exchanges on national debt for a third time, the motion passing through the upper house with 57 votes in favour and eight against.
US stocks edged higher today, putting equities on track for a third straight day of gains as a flurry of economic data pointed to improving economic conditions.
The United States voiced disappointment that Iran's new president has not moved more swiftly to allay international concerns about the country's atomic program, saying Tehran is undermining hopes of ending its nuclear standoff with the West.
Designers from around the world began unveiling their latest looks at New York Fashion Week, as fashion buyers and editors assembled to see what will be au courant for spring with trend watchers expecting a season of simple silhouettes.
US stocks closed little changed in choppy trade after labor market data removed some uncertainty about Federal Reserve policy, but concerns remained about possible military action by the West against Syria.
Peace is a good that goes beyond all barriers, it is a good for all manking, the official Twitter account of Pope Franci read today in a new anti-war message amid US preparations for a military strike on Syria.
US officials ordered non-emergency personnel and their family members out of Lebanon today "due to threats," the US Embassy in Beirut said in statement.
The United States tightened security at diplomatic missions in Lebanon and Turkey because of potential threats, ordering some personnel out of Lebanon and offering to evacuate those in Adana in southeastern Turkey.
The European Union's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said the EU's 28 nations agreed that available information seemed to show strong evidence that the Syrian government carried out a chemical attack on civilians in August.
By James Neilson No doubt it is most gratifying to be hailed as "the most powerful man in the world" by one's awestruck compatriots, but on occasion Barack Obama must wish he were just an ordinary mortal whose rhetorical flourishes should not be taken too literally so he could spend more time on the golf course hobnobbing with his cronies.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has warned against possible reprisal attacks if the United States attacks Syria, saying that if there were military strikes, Americans can "expect every action."
Syria said it "welcomed" a Russian proposal to place the nation's chemical weapons under control but stopped short of saying explicitly that President Bashar al-Assad's government accepted it.
US President Barack Obama has said that he saw a possible breakthrough in the crisis with Syria after Russia proposed that its ally Damascus hand over its chemical weapons for destruction, which could avert planned US military strikes.
US stocks climbed for a sixth straight session as the dollar and global equities rallied on more upbeat economic data from China, while prices of safe-haven debt and oil slipped on the chance of a diplomatic alternative to a potential Western military strike against Syria.
Syria accepted a Russian proposal today to give up chemical weapons and win a reprieve from US strikes, while its warplanes bombed rebel positions in Damascus for the first time since the West threatened military action.
US stocks edged higher today, lifting the S&P 500 for its seventh straight day of gains, as concern over a possible US-led strike on Syria ebbed and investors bet the Federal Reserve would trim its stimulus measures only slightly.
Syria accepted a Russian proposal to give up chemical weapons but US President Barack Obama said it was too early to tell if the initiative would succeed and he vowed to keep military forces at the ready to strike if diplomacy fails.
Envoys from the five permanent UN Security Council member states will meet in New York today to discuss plans to place Syrian chemical weapons under international control, diplomats said.
The United States said it saw "troubling developments" in Iran's nuclear programme and called on the country's new president to take concrete steps soon to ease concerns about Tehran's aims.
The White House warned that a diplomatic solution over Syria would take "some time" and pledged to pursue talks despite skepticism from US lawmakers that Damascus would make good on a Russian plan to surrender its chemical weapons.
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned against a US strike on Syria, saying such action risked escalating the conflict beyond that country and unleashing terrorist attacks.
US stocks edged lower today after a seven-session winning streak on the S&P 500 and a jobless claims report which provided few clues into the Federal Reserve's upcoming decisions about stimulus policy.
Syria's decision to cede control of its chemical weapons was the result of a Russian proposal, not the threat of US military intervention, Interfax news agency quoted President Bashar al-Assad as saying in a Russian television interview.
The Congress approved late last night a debt swap offering an unlimited time window for the remaining 7 percent of investors to restructure bonds left over from the country's 2002 default.
Russia and the United States agreed today to push again for an international conference aimed at ending Syria's civil war as talks on removing chemical weapons raised hopes for broader negotiations.
A Yemeni court has sentenced three al Qaeda members to jail for plotting to kill President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and target foreign diplomats, including the US ambassador to Sanaa.
Syria's government hailed as a "victory" a Russian-brokered deal that has averted US strikes, while President Barack Obama defended a chemical weapons pact that the rebels fear has bolstered their enemy in the civil war.
Drier weather after historic floods triggered by seven straight days of rain held out hope for relief in Colorado, where hundreds of people were still stranded or displaced today.
President Barack Obama said today he would not negotiate with Congress over whether to raise the US debt ceiling and chided Republicans for threatening to bring the government to a halt in an effort to repeal his signature healthcare reform law.
US stocks edged up at the open today ahead of the start of a highly anticipated Federal Reserve two-day meeting, while inflation data supported the case for the Fed to start to reduce its stimulus measures.
Secretary of State John Kerry has insisted that the US-Russian agreement for Syria to hand over its chemical weapons must be backed by a UN resolution with the teeth to force compliance from President Bashar al-Assad.
US stocks rallied to record highs after the Federal Reserve surprised investors and decided against trimming its bond-buying stimulus program, which has fueled Wall Street's rally of more than 20 percent this year.
A White House official said today that Federal Reserve Vice Chair Janet Yellen is the front runner to take over the top job at the US central bank when Ben Bernanke steps down, the strongest indication yet of her likely nomination.
The US Federal Reserve said that it would continue buying bonds at an $85 billion monthly pace for now, surprising financial markets that were braced for a reduction in the central bank's economic stimulus.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has revealed in a television interview that his government would never develop nuclear weapons and that he has full authority to negotiate a nuclear deal with the West.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said it was essential the deal reached last Saturday be enforced and that the UN Security Council be willing to act on it next week, when the UN General Assembly holds its annual meeting in New York.
The US Federal Reserve could still scale back its massive bond buying program at an October meeting should data point to a stronger economy, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said today.
By James NeilsonWe all know that the US economy, not the still much smaller and as yet relatively unproductive Chinese one, is the mighty engine that is pulling the rest of the planet up the slopes towards those sunlit uplands where everybody will have plenty of money to spend in glittering shopping malls.
Russia has accused the West of trying to exploit a chemical weapons deal with Syria to push through a UN resolution threatening force against President Bashar al-Assad.
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner today arrived in New York to attend the 68° United Nations General Assembly to be held in the city.
President Hassan Rouhani said today he would use his visit to the United Nations this week to present the "true face of Iran" and to pursue talks and cooperation with the West to end Iran's nuclear dispute.
Stocks on Wall Street struggled on Tuesday, with benchmark indexes swinging between losses and muted gains to finally turn lower, amid a lack of clarity on US fiscal and monetary policies, while major currencies held in tight ranges.
US President Barack Obama urged the United Nations to back tough consequences for Syria if it refuses to give up chemical weapons and urged Russia and Iran to drop their backing of leader Bashar al-Assad.
US stocks fell and the S&P 500 put in a fifth day of losses, its worst losing streak since the end of 2012, on jitters funding for the federal government would run out and after a drop in shares of the world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores.
Iran's new government, stepping up a campaign to project a more moderate image abroad, said it wants to jump-start talks with world powers to resolve a decade-long dispute over its nuclear program and hoped for a deal in three to six months.
European equities edged higher buoyed by gains at fashion group H&M, although fresh political uncertainty in Italy hit Milan's stock market.
US President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani spoke by phone, the highest-level contact since the Iranian Revolution in 1979 and a sign that both sides are serious about reaching a pact on Iran's nuclear program.
Syria will respect United Nations accords on chemical weapons, President Bashar al-Assad has affirmed.
Kenya rebuked the United States for warning its citizens over travel to the east African country after the Sept. 21 Nairobi mall attack, calling the alert "unfriendly" and asking Washington to lift it.
Iran's foreign minister has said the country's right to peaceful nuclear enrichment was not negotiable in talks with the United States but it does not need to enrich uranium to military-grade levels.
The US Supreme Court analysed the list of cases that could be discussed from the start of the new session beginning October 7, among which is a high-profile appeal by Argentina over its battle with hedge funds that refused to take part in two debt restructurings that sprang from the country's 2002 default.
Democrats who control the Senate were confident that they would defeat Republicans' efforts to delay "Obamacare" health reforms today and send a "clean" bill to keep the federal government operating back to the House of Representatives.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged President Barack Obama today to keep sanctions in place against Iran and to even tighten them if Tehran continues its nuclear advances during a coming round of negotiations with the West.
US President Barack Obama has prepared Americans for what he called an "entirely preventable" government shutdown while urging Republicans in Congress to reach an 11th-hour deal to avoid economic harm.
For the second time today, the US Senate rejected an emergency funding bill approved by the House of Representatives that would have made major changes to the Obamacare healthcare law.
Syria's foreign minister has compared what he described as an invasion of foreign terrorists across his country to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, remarks that Washington dismissed as offensive and disingenuous.
Barack Obama has urged House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner to back legislation to fund the government for six weeks and to vote on it quickly to avoid a government shutdown in hours.
US stocks kicked off a new month and a new quarter with gains as investors, for now, appeared confident that the first partial government shutdown in nearly two decades would be short-lived.
The US government began a partial shutdown for the first time in 17 years, potentially putting up to 1 million workers on unpaid leave, closing national parks and stalling medical research projects.
DAIA head Julio Schlosser renewed the criticism of the AMIA Memorandum of Understanding reached with Iran. Still, Schlosser admitted the 1994 attack of the Jewish community center must be brought up in current negotiations between Washington and Tehran, a demand maintained by President Kirchner.
The US Supreme Court today took no action on whether it should hear an appeal filed by Argentina over its battle with hedge funds that refused to take part in two debt restructurings that sprang from the country's 2002 default.
President Barack Obama today told US government employees that the government shutdown was "completely preventable" and that he would try to get Congress to restart operations as soon as possible.
President Barack Obama today blamed Republicans for an "ideological crusade" aimed at his healthcare program and urged lawmakers to vote to keep government operations running without conditions.
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has instructed Cecilia Nahón, US ambassador for Argentina, to formally ask the White House and the State Department to include the AMIA case in their meeting agenda with Iran.
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has commented on the US government shutdown and Barack Obama's attempts to reform medical care, stating that public health was a key obligation for any governing party.
Under pressure not to squeeze Iran too hard, the US Senate is unlikely to impose a fresh round of sanctions on the Islamic Republic until after Tehran holds nuclear talks with world powers later this month, lawmakers and congressional aides said.
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a Defence Ministry gate in Kabul killing nine civilians during a visit to Afghanistan by US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, underlining the insurgent threat as NATO troops prepare to leave.
A video produced by US think tank "Heritage Foundation" addressed to US President Barack Obama intends to change the White House's decision of not recognising the outcome of the Malvinas referendum.
Team USA battled back to overcome Canada 9-4 and advance to the second round of the World Baseball Classic in a do-or-die game at Chase Field in Phoenix.
President Barack Obama said today that forging new trade deals with Europe and 10 countries in the Asia-Pacific region would be an important part of his second-term agenda to spur economic growth and create jobs.
Ohio Republican US Senator Rob Portman, a longtime opponent of same-sex marriage, said he now believes gays have a right to marry after learning two years ago that his son is gay.
A bipartisan group of members of the US House of Representatives is close to completing work on a comprehensive immigration reform bill that will include a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented people living in the United states, according to congressional aides.
President Barack Obama today nominated Tom Perez, head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, as labour secretary, a Cabinet member who will play a key role in the administration's efforts to raise the minimum wage and reform immigration laws.
The US National Park Service plans to reopen the Statue of Liberty to tourists on the US Independence Day of July 4 after a $59 million job to repair damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, officials said today.
Iran's most powerful authority said the Islamic Republic would destroy the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa if Israel launched a military attack against it.
An active-duty Marine shot dead two fellow service members at a base at Quantico, Virginia, then barricaded himself in a building and killed himself, prompting a brief lockdown of the base, the Marines said today.
US Secretary of State John Kerry made an unannounced visit to Iraq and will urge Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to make sure Iranian flights over Iraq do not carry arms and fighters to Syria, a US official said.
The US Supreme Court agreed today to weigh a Michigan law that bans affirmative action in public college admissions.
A majority of US Supreme Court justices indicated they could be inclined to strike down a law that denies federal benefits to legally married same-sex couples, a move that would reflect the evolving nationwide sea change in attitudes to gay marriage.
The gunman who killed 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school fired 154 rounds in less than 5 minutes, selecting high capacity magazines from a home arsenal stocked with swords, knives and a cache of guns, officials said.
US consumer spending rose in February and sentiment among Americans perked up this month, further signs of an acceleration in economic activity in the first quarter after a near stall in late 2012.
North Korea said it was entering a "state of war" with South Korea, but Seoul and its ally the United States played down the statement as tough talk.
With US business and labor now in agreement, a bipartisan group of senators has resolved all major issues in a pending deal to overhaul the US immigration system and aims to unveil it after Congress reconvenes in the second week of April, key lawmakers said.
Major stock markets rose, with the US S&P 500 index nearing its all-time intraday high, while the dollar rallied from a one-month low against the yen on bets the Bank of Japan will announce further monetary easing steps this week.
North Korea announced plans to restart a mothballed nuclear reactor that has been closed since 2007, but emphasised it was seeking a deterrent capacity, rather than repeating recent threats to attack South Korea and the United States.
North Korea closed access to a joint factory zone with South Korea, officials said, putting at risk $2 billion a year in trade that is vital for an impoverished state with a huge army, nuclear ambitions and a hungry population.
The Pentagon said it was sending an advanced ballistic missile defense system to Guam in the coming weeks, describing the move as a precaution against North Korea's regional ballistic missile threat.
Hillary Clinton, already the front-runner in the minds of many Democrats for the 2016 US presidential election, is writing a memoir about world affairs and her time as secretary of state.
A US federal judge today ordered the Food and Drug Administration to make the "morning-after" emergency contraception pill available without a prescription to all girls of reproductive age.
North Korea has asked embassies to consider moving staff out and warned it cannot guarantee the safety of diplomats after April 10, Britain said, amid high tension and a war of words on the Korean peninsula.
Staff at embassies in North Korea appeared to be remaining in place despite an appeal by authorities in Pyongyang for diplomats to consider leaving because of heightened tension after weeks of bellicose exchanges.
President Barack Obama mourned the late Margaret Thatcher today, saying "America has lost a true friend" who strengthened US ties with Britain and helped win the Cold War.
A Democratic and a Republican senator said they had struck a deal to expand background checks for gun buyers, boosting prospects for passage in the Senate of at least some of President Barack Obama's gun-control proposals.
Spring storms unleashed heavy snow, rain and high winds, including tornadoes, across parts of the central United States, leaving thousands of residents and businesses without power and causing scattered property damage.
Two senators who brokered a breakthrough deal to expand background checks on gun buyers said they expected to defeat efforts to block the bill as the Senate takes up its first vote on gun-control legislation this week.
US senators negotiating an immigration bill have reached agreement on wages for foreign farm laborers working in the United States and a limit on visas for such workers, Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein said.
The US Senate cleared the way for debate on proposals to curb gun violence, rejecting an effort by conservative Republicans to block consideration of gun-control legislation prompted by the Newtown school massacre.
US stocks and European shares closed lower today, after weak US retail data and worries about Cyprus's bailout plan.
Secretary of State John Kerry dismissed as "unacceptable by any standard" weeks of bellicose warnings of impending nuclear war by North Korea and said Washington would never accept the reclusive state becoming a nuclear power.
Two women were wounded in a shooting at a campus of New River Community College in Christiansburg, in southwestern Virginia, and the suspected shooter is in custody, police said.
The United States and China agreed to make a joint effort to push for the peaceful denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, following weeks of bellicose rhetoric from North Korea and rising tensions in northeast Asia.
For the second time in five months, Venezuelan residents in the United States, including many who traveled by bus or flew in from Florida, lined up outside a New Orleans voting center to cast ballots in Venezuela's presidential election.
Staying out of the raging national debate over guns, the Supreme Court declined to weigh in on whether gun owners have a constitutional right to carry handguns outside the home.
Two bombs packed with ball bearings tore through crowds near the finish of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and triggering a massive hunt for those behind an attack the White House said would be treated as "an act of terror".
US stocks jumped more than 1 percent, a day after their worst decline since November, as gold prices rebounded and earnings from Coca-Cola and Johnson & Johnson improved the outlook for first-quarter results.
US officials said they had intercepted a letter sent to Senator Roger Wicker that tested positive for the deadly poison ricin, and that the US Capitol police, FBI and other agencies had launched an investigation.
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner asked the US government to recognize Nicolás Maduro's victory after the Venezuelan presidential elections and assured that the results were reached after a "transparent electoral process."
US stocks fell in a broad market selloff, led by a sharp drop in Apple shares on worries about slowing demand for its products and weaker-than-expected results from Bank of America that battered the financial sector.
Boston Marathon bombing investigators today entered the third day of their hunt with an emerging picture of the target: a suspect or suspects carrying heavy bags or backpacks made of dark nylon.
The FBI said it arrested Paul Kevin Curtis of Corinth, Mississippi, in connection with ricin letters sent to US officials, including President Barack Obama.
US stocks fell and the S&P 500 closed below a key technical level after disappointing forecasts from eBay and other companies, casting doubt on the market's recent strength.
North Korea offered the United States and South Korea a list of conditions for talks, including the lifting of UN sanctions, signaling a possible end to weeks of warlike hostility on the Korean peninsula.
The United States remains open to "authentic and credible" negotiations with North Korea, but the country would first need to show it is serious about abandoning its nuclear ambitions, a White House spokesman said.
A privately owned rocket built in partnership with NASA to haul cargo to the International Space Station blasted off for a debut test flight from a new commercial spaceport in Virginia.
Authorities are investigating whether the Boston Marathon bombing suspect who died after a shootout with police had any connection to an unsolved triple homicide in suburban Boston in 2011, a spokeswoman for prosecutors said.
Federal prosecutors charged badly wounded Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in his hospital bed today with using a weapon of mass destruction, a charge that could result in the death penalty, officials said.
US stocks climbed in a broad rally, recovering from sharp declines sparked by a "bogus" Associated Press tweet about explosions at the White House.
US prosecutors dropped charges against a Mississippi man accused of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and a US senator, according to a court order signed by a judge.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said he and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had agreed to look for ways to revive a Syrian peace plan, but admitted that doing so would be extremely difficult.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro named a new acting head of its US diplomatic mission in Washington and sent an offer of dialogue after attacking the United States for "interference" in a row over his election.
Republican senators pressed US President Barack Obama to intervene in Syria's civil war, saying America could attack Syrian air bases with missiles but should not send in ground troops.
A Mississippi martial arts instructor is expected to appear in a federal court today to face charges in connection with the mailing of letters containing the deadly poison ricin to President barack Obama and other US officials.
US stocks rose moderately, with the S&P 500 ending at another all-time closing high on a jump in Apple and encouraging economic data.
Saying it was damaging to US interests to keep holding prisoners in legal limbo at Guantanamo, President Barack Obama renewed an old vow to close the camp, where about 100 inmates are on hunger strike to protest against their years in detention without trial.
US stocks fell sharply as the latest economic data continued a trend of indicators pointing to anemic growth, while bellwether companies disappointed on revenue.
Rhode Island lawmakers gave final approval to a bill to legalize gay marriage on Thursday, making it the 10th US state to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples and the last of the six New England states to do so.
US President Barack Obama gave his blessing to a new security arrangement with Mexican leader Enrique Pena Nieto, in which Mexico will make reducing violence a priority over hunting drug cartel kingpins in the war against organized crime.
Today's strong jobs report shows the US economy is continuing to recover, but it would grow faster if Congress approved job-creation programs, said Alan Krueger, a top economic advisor to President Barack Obama.
A solar-powered airplane that developers hope to eventually pilot around the world took off today from San Francisco Bay on the first leg of an attempt to fly across the United States with no fuel but the sun's energy.
As the Senate gets ready to debate the details of a broad US immigration bill, a group of House of Representatives lawmakers is still struggling to write its own legislation, hung up in part over guest worker programs sought by businesses.
President Obama said he is comfortable with a US government agency's decision to allow over-the-counter purchases of a morning-after pill for anyone 15 and older.
US President Barack Obama yesterday cast Mexico as a nation ready to take "its rightful place in the world" and move past the drug battles and violence that have defined its relationship with the United States.
Memorabilia from boxing champion Muhammad Ali's rise to sporting and cultural prominence, including a signed training robe and amateur boxing trophy, are expected to fetch tens of thousands of dollars in Los Angeles auction.
US stocks edged higher but investors found little reason to push shares decisively higher after the S&P 500 hit another record close. European shares rose 0.4 percent on positive expectations that central banks would continue to stimulate the economy.
The United States and South Korea agree on maintaining a deterrent posture towards North Korea and on not rewarding that provocative behavior from Pyongyang, President Barack Obama said.
Russia and the United States agreed to seek new peace talks with both sides to end Syria's civil war, but opposition leaders were sceptical of an initiative they fear might let President Bashar al-Assad hang on to power.
The state Senate approved the bill by a vote of 12-9 yesterday and Governor Jack Markell signed it into law half an hour later.
Bail for accused Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro was set at $8 million in the decade-long abduction ordeal of three young women and a child, who was conceived and born in captivity.
In the first legislative test for the US Senate's bipartisan immigration bill, the Judiciary Committee rejected a Republican attempt to significantly delay the legalization process for 11 million undocumented immigrants, a central focus of the bill.
The United States told Japan it would be watching for any sign it was manipulating its currency lower but Tokyo said it met no resistance to its policies at a meeting of Group of Seven finance ministers.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that the shadow banking system continued to pose a threat to financial stability, and that bank funding markets might still not be able to cope with a major default.
US President Barack Obama said today the United States would keep increasing pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to stop the "appalling violence" in Syria, and was still investigating the reported use of chemical weapons there.
The United States said it was "highly inappropriate" for Iran to take over the rotating chair of the UN Conference on Disarmament this month and vowed that its ambassador would boycott any meeting led by the Tehran.
US stocks rose and closed a rally today, with the Dow and the S&P 500 hitting new records as investors bet that the market's upward momentum would keep going.
Russia said it had caught an American red-handed as he tried to recruit a Russian intelligence officer to work for the CIA, a throwback to the Cold War era that risks upsetting efforts to improve relations.
Russia expelled a US diplomat yesterday after saying he had been caught red-handed with disguises, special equipment and wads of cash as he tried to recruit a Russian intelligence agent to work for the CIA.
The White House today sought to revive legislation that would give journalists legal protection when guarding their sources, a move that comes days after the Obama administration revealed it had seized records from the AP news agency in a leak probe.
President Barack Obama said today he makes "no apologies" for his concern about leaks to the media that could compromise US national security or put American military and intelligence officers at risk.
Russia warned the United States in 2011 to stop trying to recruit its security agents as spies and expelled a CIA operative in January this year after Washington ignored the warning, the FSB said.
The outgoing head of the US Internal Revenue Service angered Republican lawmakers by resisting their demands that he identify who at the tax-collection agency had inappropriately targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny.
The United States chided Russia for sending missiles to the Syrian government as plans for a peace conference promoted by Washington and Moscow were hit by diplomatic rifts over its scope and purpose.
North Korea fired a short-range missile from its east coast after launching three of these missiles, a South Korean news agency said, ignoring calls for restraint from Western powers.
The Justice Department's seizure of phone records for journalists at the Associated Press is hurting the agency's ability to gather news, the wire service's Chief Executive and President Gary Pruitt said.
The Justice Department's seizure of phone records for journalists at the Associated Press is hurting the agency's ability to gather news, the wire service's Chief Executive and President Gary Pruitt said.
The Justice Department's seizure of phone records for journalists at the Associated Press is hurting the agency's ability to gather news, the wire service's Chief Executive and President Gary Pruitt said.
A huge tornado with winds of up to 200 miles per hour devastated the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, ripping up at least two elementary schools and a hospital and leaving a wake of tangled wreckage.
US stocks fell with the S&P 500 posting its biggest decline in three weeks, after minutes from the latest US Federal Reserve meeting showed some officials were open to tapering large-scale asset purchases as early as at the June meeting.
President Barack Obama, who has made enactment of an immigration bill one of his top priorities for this year, praised the Senate Judiciary Committee's action, saying the bill was consistent with the goals he has expressed.
The Federal Reserve's monetary stimulus is helping the US economy recover, and the central bank needs to see further signs of traction before taking its foot off the gas, central bank chairman Ben Bernanke said today.
A Chechen immigrant who was being questioned about his possible links to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was shot and killed by a federal agent in Florida after he suddenly turned violent, the FBI said.
In a letter addressed to president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner today, US president Barack Obama "congratulated" Argentina on the anniversary of its National Day on May 25th.
The US government formally acknowledged for the first time that it had killed four Americans, including militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who died in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan.
US stocks slipped but finished sharply off their session lows as a rally in Hewlett-Packard's shares offset worries about weak Chinese manufacturing data and the prospects of the Federal Reserve reducing its monetary stimulus.
US Secretary of State John Kerry held separate talks with Israeli and Palestinian officials today and acknowledged there was considerable scepticism that the two sides would resume peace negotiations.
Global equity markets slipped over worries the US Federal Reserve may curb a stimulus program that has lifted stocks, while the dollar recovered against the euro after better-than-expected US durable goods data for April.
President Barack Obama payed tribute today to fallen men and women of the US armed services during a Memorial Day ceremony in which he reminded Americans that the country was still at war.
By James TraubMen and women on the street of the Islamic world often say that they feel helpless in the face of US power — but in President Barack Obama's decision to restrict the use of drones they won a victory which the administration's domestic critics could never have achieved.
US stocks opened higher today as supportive comments from central banks around the world reassured investors that monetary policies designed to support the global economy would remain in place.
Global shares retreated today, as investors continued to question the longevity of the Federal Reserve's stimulus program.
The strike occurred in the North Waziristan region today, according to security officials. Seven people were killed, among them, Taliban deputy commander Wali-ur-Rehman.
US stocks extended gains, with the Nasdaq briefly gaining 1 percent and the S&P near session highs as weaker-than-expected economic data kept afloat the belief stimulus measures by central banks will likely continue.
Authorities intercepted a threatening letter addressed to President Barack Obama that was similar to ones sent to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the Secret Service said today.
US stocks sold off and government bond yields rose on Friday after improved factory activity in the US Midwest and rising consumer sentiment increased anxiety about the Federal Reserve's next move.
US authorities are investigating a Texas man over threatening letters containing a potentially deadly poison mailed to US President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a law enforcement official said today.
The United States today blacklisted companies in Iran's petrochemical industry, sending a warning signal to its global customers and representing the latest effort by Washington to cut funds to the Islamic Republic's nuclear program.
The death toll from deadly tornadoes and severe flooding that struck Oklahoma on Friday and Saturday has risen to 18, including 12 adults and six children, with the bodies of seven people still unidentified, the state's chief medical examiner said.
Frank Lautenberg, a self-made multimillionaire businessman who became a leading liberal in the US Senate and championed smoking bans, gun control, airline safety and rail transportation, died today at 89, an aide said.
US stocks ended lower resuming their recent decline as investors sold growth-oriented sectors on speculation the Federal Reserve may slow the pace of its economic stimulus.
US stocks dropped 1 percent, extending a recent selloff, as investors grappled with concerns that the Federal Reserve may begin to scale back its bond-buying stimulus while the economy is still sluggish.
President Barack Obama chose close confidante Susan Rice as his new national security adviser, increasing White House control over foreign policy and defying Republican critics of her handling of last year's deadly attack on a US compound in Libya.
US stocks rose with the Dow swinging nearly 200 points from its session low to high and the S&P 500 recovering after hitting a key technical level in volatile trading a day before the release of the US jobs report.
The center of Tropical Storm Andrea will reach the coast of the Florida Big Bend area later Thursday and then move across southeastern Georgia, southeastern South Carolina and eastern North Carolina by tomorrow, US government forecasters said.
The dollar rose and global equity markets rallied on Friday after US jobs data for May quashed investors' concerns that the Federal Reserve would soon start easing back on its stimulus programme.
Tropical Storm Andrea moved briskly along the South Carolina coast, bringing drenching rains and threatening to spawn tornadoes as it churns up the Eastern Seaboard, US forecasters said.
President Barack Obama today staunchly defended US government programs conducting surveillance of Americans' phone and Internet activity, insisting that they were conducted with broad safeguards to protect against abuse.
A US drone strike killed nine people in northwest Pakistan, security officials said, prompting newly sworn-in Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to summon America's envoy to protest against such attacks.
Prime Minister David Cameron said today Britain's spies acted within the law following revelations the intelligence agencies had received data collected secretly by the United States from the the world's biggest internet companies.
Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's today upgraded its credit outlook for the US government to "stable" from "negative," saying the chances of a downgrade of the country's rating is "less than one in three."
China led a rise in global carbon dioxide emissions to a record high in 2012, more than offsetting falls in the United States and Europe, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said today.
A contractor at the National Security Agency who leaked details of top-secret US surveillance programs dropped out of sight in Hong Kong ahead of a likely push by the US government to have him sent back to the United States to face charges.
US stocks slid in a volatile session after Japan's central bank disappointed equity markets by holding its monetary policy steady.
According to police sources, a loud explosion was heard in the Afghan capital Kabul's diplomatic area near the US Embassy. No other details were immediately available.
The Obama administration will scrap age restrictions on the sale of emergency contraception pills, making the morning-after pill available to women and girls without a prescription.
Contracting firm Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp said today it has fired Edward Snowden, who admitted to releasing information on the US government's broad monitoring of American's phone and Internet data, for violating the firm's ethics and policies.
President Barack Obama today urged lawmakers who were "serious" about reforming the US immigration system to back the Senate's bill, saying there was no reason why Congress could not get the measure passed by the end of the summer.
US stocks fell with the Dow sliding more than 100 points on another volatile day as traders extended a selloff driven by concern about central banks winding down their stimulus measures.
The National Security Agency contractor who revealed the government's top-secret monitoring of phone and Internet data says he intends to stay in Hong Kong and fight any effort to bring him back to the United States to face charges.
US critical infrastructure - which ranges from telecommunications to water to energy supplies - is not well prepared to handle a destructive cyber attack, the top US general in charge of cybersecurity said today.
Roughly one in three Americans say the former security contractor who leaked details of top-secret U.S. surveillance activity is a patriot and should not be prosecuted, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday.
US stocks rallied after three days of losses as stronger-than-expected economic data helped reassure investors concerned about the expected winding down of the Federal Reserve's economic stimulus.
FBI Director Robert Mueller said that the US government is doing everything it can to hold confessed leaker Edward Snowden accountable for splashing surveillance secrets across the pages of newspapers worldwide.
US stocks fell to close their third negative week in four as concern lingered over whether the world's central banks will soon begin to rein in stimulus programmes.
Almost half a million homes and businesses, mostly in the US Mid-Atlantic states, were still without power early today following a series of severe storms yesterday, according to local power companies.
The US House of Representatives passed a massive defense bill on Friday that includes measures to block President Barack Obama's plans to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, underscoring the tough fight ahead for the White House as it seeks to shutter the controversial detention camp.
A few hundred rights advocates and political activists marched through Hong Kong to demand protection for Edward Snowden, who leaked revelations of US electronic surveillance and is now believed to be holed up in the former British colony.
North Korea proposed high-level talks with the United States to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula, a week after it scrappped planned official talks with South Korea for the first time in over two years.
The United States will meet with South Korea and Japan in Washington on Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss North Korea's new offer to hold high-level talks, a senior administration official said.
China made its first substantive comments today to reports of US surveillance of the Internet, demanding that Washington explain its monitoring programs to the international community.
President-elect Hassan Rohani said today he hoped the world would grasp a new opportunity for "constructive interaction" with Iran and pledged to be more transparent about the Islamic Republic's nuclear program in order to see sanctions lifted.
The Supreme Court today struck down an Arizona law that required people registering to vote in federal elections to show proof of citizenship, a victory for activists who say it discouraged Native Americans and Latinos from voting.
The United States and European Union launched negotiations on one of the world's most ambitious free-trade agreements today, promising thousands of jobs and speedier growth on both sides of the Atlantic.
Global leaders called for peace talks to be held as soon as possible to resolve the Syrian civil war but they failed to mention the fate of President Bashar al-Assad in a final G8 summit communique.
General Keith Alexander, the director of the US National Security Agency, said that the NSA's data gathering programs had prevented potential terrorist attacks more than 50 times since September 11, 2001.
The United States will meet the Taliban this week for talks aimed at achieving peace in Afghanistan, where US.-led forces and the insurgents have fought a bloody and costly war for the past 12 years, US officials said today.
US stocks fell more than 1 percent on Wednesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the central bank would start to reduce its stimulus measures later this year if the economy is strong enough.
The World Bank is concerned about the spillover effects on developing countries of a slowing of US money creation and will move to provide affordable capital when borrowing costs rise, its president said.
President Barack Obama wants to reduce deployed nuclear weapons by up to a third and revive negotiations with Russia to "move beyond Cold War nuclear postures", he said in a speech today in Berlin.
The United States and Cuba have agreed to resume regular migration talks in a possible sign of thawing relations after more than three years of tensions over Cuba's jailing of a US government contract worker.
The United States uses drones for surveillance in some limited law enforcement situations, FBI Director Robert Mueller said, sparking additional debate about President Barack Obama's use of domestic surveillance.
Global equity markets, bond prices and commodities fell sharply, a day after the Federal Reserve said the US economy was growing strongly enough for it to begin slowing its unprecedented stimulus.
Stocks fell at the open, adding to a more than 1% drop a day earlier after remarks by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke who outlined the start of a wind-down of stimuli that has been instrumental to the market's rally.
US equities stabilized in choppy trading, while Treasury yields were on track for their biggest weekly jump in a decade as investors reassessed their positions in the wake of the Federal Reserve's plans to withdraw its economic stimulus.
US stocks turned lower as the initial bounce from a two-day selloff faded and banking stocks fell, while a sharp drop in Oracle shares dragged down the Nasdaq.
By meeting a privacy oversight board today, President Barack Obama sought to reassure Americans worried about losing their privacy after revelations that the US government engaged in a vast monitoring of phone and Internet data.
The federal court in Virginia where the Justice Department has decided to charge Edward Snowden with leaking secrets about US surveillance programs has a long track record of hearing cases related not only to national security cases but also to cyber crime.
Ecuador is reviewing Edward Snowden's asylum request and will make a decision on the former US intelligence contractor "in due time" based on human rights considerations above all, Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño said today.
The United States increased pressure on Russia to hand over Edward Snowden, the American charged with disclosing secret US surveillance programs, and said it believed he was still in Moscow despite reports he was leaving for Cuba.
Argentina has taken its legal battle with "holdout" creditors to the US Supreme Court, asking that body to overturn a lower court ruling in a case whose outcome could push the country into default.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said today there was no need to raise the level of confrontation with Russia over Edward Snowden, a former US spy agency contractor charged with disclosing secret surveillance programs and believed to be in Moscow.
In a major blow to civil rights activists, the Supreme Court today struck down an important part of a 48-year-old federal law designed to protect minority voters.
President Vladimir Putin confirmed a former US spy agency contractor sought by the United States was in the transit area of a Moscow airport but ruled out handing him to Washington, dismissing US criticisms as "ravings and rubbish".
President Vladimir Putin confirmed a former US spy agency contractor sought by the United States was in the transit area of a Moscow airport but ruled out handing him to Washington, dismissing US criticisms as "ravings and rubbish".
US President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai on today discussed stalled peace talks with the Taliban as US officials struggled to get the discussions on track.
A former US spy agency contractor sought by Washington on espionage charges appeared to be still in hiding at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and the national airline said he was not booked on any of its flights over the next three days.
US stocks rallied for a second day, recouping some recent losses on reduced concern that the Federal Reserve will begin to withdraw its stimulus in the near future.
The US Supreme Court struck down a central portion of a federal law that restricted the definition of marriage to opposite-sex couples in a major victory for the gay rights movement.
Gross domestic product expanded at a 1.8 percent annual rate, the Commerce Department said in its final estimate today. Output was previously reported to have risen at a 2.4 percent pace after a 0.4 percent stall speed in the fourth quarter.
Ecuador today said the United States must "submit its position" regarding Edward Snowden to the Ecuadorian government in writing as it considers the former US spy agency contractor's request for asylum.
A former US spy agency contractor facing charges of espionage remained in hiding at a Moscow airport while the prospect grew of a protracted wrangle over his fate.
US stocks climbed for a third straight day after comments from several Federal Reserve officials soothed concerns that the central bank would begin to reduce its stimulus efforts in the near future.
President Barack Obama said today he had not yet spoken to Chinese President Xi Jinping or Russian President Vladimir Putin about the US request to extradite former American spy agency contractor Edward Snowden.
President Barack Obama urged the House of Representatives today to follow the lead of the Senate and approve a sweeping overhaul of immigration laws.
Retired US General James Cartwright is the target of a Justice Department investigation into the leaking of secret information about the Stuxnet virus attack on Iranian nuclear facilities in 2010, NBC News reported today, citing unidentified legal sources.
President Barack Obama, wrapping up the first leg of an African tour, said today Washington had a "moral imperative" to help the world's poorest continent feed itself and he then left for South Africa hoping to see ailing Nelson Mandela.
Ecuador's President Rafael Correa said the United States asked him not to grant asylum for former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden in a "cordial" telephone conversation he held with US Vice President Joe Biden.
The US government will respond through diplomatic channels to demands from the European Union that Washington explain a report in a German magazine that Washington is spying on its European allies.
Nearly all national governments, not just the United States, use "lots of activities" to safeguard their interests and security, US Secretary of State John Kerry said today, responding for the first time to allegations that Washington spied on the European Union and other allies.
US President Barack Obama played down a controversy over whether Washington had spied on its European allies, saying intelligence services around the world, including in the EU, seek additional insight beyond regular media reports.
Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor in charge of the AMIA bombing investigations, has been denied the opportunity to reveal his case findings, in which he accuses the Iranian regime of carrying out the attack, in front of the US Congress.
US stocks edged lower, erasing earlier gains as the S&P 500 met resistance around its 50-day moving average, a level the index has not been able to close above for the past two weeks.
Free-trade talks between the European Union and the United States can go ahead next week despite a report that Washington is spying on the 28-nation bloc, the European Commission said today, calling for "transparency and clarity".
Bolivian President Evo Morales awaited a Spanish permission to fly home through its airspace after he refused Madrid's request to inspect his plane following its diversion to Vienna.
European bond and stock markets rose as investors put concerns about political turmoil in Portugal to one side ahead of central bank meetings in Frankfurt and London, and Friday's US jobs report.
Amidst Independence Day celebrations, US ambassador in Argentina Vilma Martínez bid farewell to her post after almost four years in office, assuring that the relationship between both countries "has been strengthened."
European shares consolidated with uncertainty ahead of key US jobs data making investors reluctant to extend the previous day's rally that was spurred by pledges of continued stimulus from the European Central Bank and Bank of England.
Stocks rose in early trading as US June payrolls data came in much stronger than expected, though investors questioned what the report meant for the timing of the Federal Reserve's stimulus program.
The dollar rose broadly and Treasury debt yields jumped, while Wall Street pared initial gains in volatile trading and a gauge of world stocks fell after strong job market data showed the world's largest economy on a solid footing.
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel held three conversations with the head of Egypt's armed forces on Friday and Saturday, emphasizing the need for "a peaceful civilian transition in Egypt," the Pentagon said.
The United State's National Security Agency works closely with Germany and other Western states on a 'no questions asked'-basis, former NSA employee Edward Snowden said in comments that undermine Chancellor Angela Merkel's indignant talk of "Cold War" tactics.
US stocks advanced heading into the start of earnings season, building on gains sparked by last week's robust employment report and pushing the S&P 500 closer to its all-time high set in May.
Angela Merkel's government said that its cooperation with American intelligence was fully regulated by strict legal guidelines after a magazine reported that the US National Security Agency was in close cahoots with German spies.
President Nicolas Maduro has revealed that Venezuela has received "a letter requesting asylum" from Edward Snowden. The ex-intelligence services consultant is wanted by the United States for espionage and has been in a Moscow airport for the last two weeks.
Former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden has not yet formally accepted asylum in Venezuela, the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks clarified after a Russian lawmaker posted a statement to that effect on Twitter and then deleted it.
Spain is ready to apologise to Bolivia's president for events that delayed his plane, the foreign minister said today, but he again denied banning the jet from Spanish airspace on the belief that US fugitive Edward Snowden was aboard.
The health of Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of US Secretary of State John Kerry, continues to improve and doctors have ruled out a heart attack, stroke or brain tumor as causing her "seizure-like" symptoms, the State Department said today.
The Appeals Court of New York's Second Circuit has released their opinion on Argentina's defaulted bonds. The latest order states that the court rejects appeals made against the judgement of October 26 2012 which had obliged Argentina to pay 100 percent of their debts to creditors.
The order handed down by the Appeals Court of New York's Second Cirtcuit "does not affect the appeal" that the Argentine government is pursuing in the case against the vulture funds, according to the Economy Ministry.
The Dow slipped and the S&P 500 edged up less than a point on Wednesday, interrupting a four-day rally, with investors trying to gauge when the Federal Reserve may scale back on its economic stimulus.
The United States is falling behind its economic peers in most measures of health, despite making gains in the past two decades, according to a sweeping study of data from 34 countries.
Argentine ambassador to the United Kingdom Alicia Castro renewed Argentina's sovereignty claims over Malvinas Islands and put the Snowden spy row on London's table: "We are free nations that neither need nor want to be spied on," Castro warned.
Republicans in the US House of Representatives emerged from an immigration meeting divided over whether to help the 11 million undocumented people living in the United States, but eager to bolster border security.
The S&P 500 and Dow industrials closed at record highs, a day after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke reasserted that monetary policy will remain accommodative for some time.
Political infighting threatened to stall Egypt's transition plans as the military cracked down on Muslim Brotherhood leaders it blames for inciting a clash in Cairo in which troops shot and killed 53 protesters.
Senior US and Chinese officials sharply disagreed on Thursday over China's handling of fugitive Edward Snowden, the former spy agency contractor accused of divulging US surveillance program secrets who was allowed to leave Hong Kong last month.
More than 1,000 migratory bottlenose dolphins have died from a measles-like virus along the US Eastern Seaboard in 2013 and the epidemic shows no sign of abating, a marine biologist said.
Iran's hardline lawmakers are seeking to increase uranium enrichment under the country's nuclear programme to a level that can produce bomb-grade material, according to a state-run website.
President Barack Obama today signed the two-year US budget agreement negotiated by Congress earlier this month.
US stock indexes closed mostly flat, with the Dow snapping a six-day streak of record closing highs after investors took a break from this week's rally.
US stocks ended mostly flat today following a strong rally over the past two-weeks, with weaker-than-forecast housing data and light trading volume keeping upward momentum in check.
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit seeking to force the US government to disclose details of its foreign electronic surveillance program and what protections it provides to Americans whose communications are swept up.
US stocks were set to close 2013 at record levels, with world equity markets close to six-year peaks, while benchmark bond yields were poised for their first annual rise since 2009 in anticipation of stronger global growth in 2014.
Over 2 million people have enrolled in health insurance plans through the federally run HealthCare.gov and state healthcare websites since enrollment began in October, US officials have said.
US stocks fell on their first day of trading in 2014 as investors booked profits in the wake of the S&P 500's best yearly advance since 1997.
The world's first state-licensed marijuana retailers legally permitted to sell pot for recreational use have opened for business in Colorado with long lines of customers, marking a new chapter in America's drug culture.
Copper futures dropped today on concerns over Chinese growth and as the US dollar strengthened, while crude oil extended recent losses and a global gauge of equities was little changed.
The United States has evacuated more embassy staff from South Sudan's capital Juba due to worsening security in the country, where clashes between rebels and the army risk turning into full-blown civil war.
A major snowstorm producing blizzard-like conditions has hammered the northeastern United States, causing more than 1,000 US flight delays and cancellations, paralyzing road travel, and closing schools and government offices.
The US government appealed today a federal court ruling that the gathering of Americans' telephone records by the National Security Agency was likely unlawful. District Judge Richard Leon in December ruled against the agency's counter-terrorism program.
The secretive US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court today renewed the authority of US intelligence agencies to collect data on millions of Americans' telephone calls in a program that has set off a legal battle over privacy rights.
Israel and the Palestinians are making progress towards reaching a framework peace agreement but they are not there yet, US Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters.
US Secretary of State John Kerry asserted today that Israelis and Palestinians were making some progress in peace talks, though there was still a chance no accord would be reached.
Residents of the Midwestern United States braced for the coldest weather in two decades, temperatures that forecasters warned would be life-threatening.
US stocks slipped today after a mixed batch of economic reports, which showed a slowdown in growth in the US services sector and a rebound in new orders for factory goods.
The US Senate intends to waste no time making history as it moves to approve Janet Yellen to be the first woman to head the Federal Reserve. If confirmed, Yellen, 67, who has been vice chair of the US central bank since 2010, would succeed Ben Bernanke, whose second four-year term ends on January 31.
The US Supreme Court on Monday halted same-sex marriages in Utah - permitted for less than three weeks - while the state appeals a lower-court ruling legalizing them, as the justices again left their imprint on the debate over gay nuptials.
The White House said that the United States is accelerating its deliveries of military equipment to Iraq to help the country fight al Qaeda-linked militants, part of a strategy to isolate the insurgent groups.
Janet Yellen was confirmed by the US Senate on Monday to become the next chair of the Federal Reserve. She will succeed Ben Bernanke when his term expires on Jan. 31.
Global equity markets rose and the dollar strengthened today on encouraging jobs data from Germany and news of the lowest US trade deficit in four years, the latest evidence of a more robust American economy.
JPMorgan Chase & Co will pay a $1.7 billion penalty to settle charges by US federal authorities that the bank failed to report suspicious activity relating to Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme.
The United States said today it will send 800 more soldiers and about 40 Abrams main battle tanks and other armored vehicles to South Korea next month as part of a military rebalance to East Asia after more than a decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
US stocks were set to open little changed today, a day after the S&P 500 posted its largest gain in three weeks and after a report showed private sector payrolls rose the most in 13 months.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said today that nuclear negotiations with world powers had revealed US "enmity" towards the Islamic state.
US stock index futures rose ahead of labor market data, with Macy's raising the bar for retailers after a stellar holiday season.
The 'polar vortex' that swept over the US producing the coldest temperatures in two decades has started to ease up, as the cold wave moved north towards Canada. "There´s relief in sight as we warm to near normal and above normal to the end of the week", the US National Weather Service said.
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq ended modestly higher on Friday, led by gains in defensive names after a weaker-than-expected payrolls report raised new questions about both the strength of the economy and the aggressiveness of Federal Reserve stimulus.
India has asked the United States to withdraw a diplomat from its embassy in New Delhi in the latest retaliatory action over the arrest of an Indian consular official in New York on charges of visa fraud.
US President Barack Obama has named experienced central banker and internationally respected economist Stanley Fischer to serve as the vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, the White House said.
Iran and the EU appeared to make progress in resolving outstanding differences on how to implement a landmark nuclear deal in talks in Geneva but the United States said discussions were not yet finalised.
The Obama administration said it will recognize same-sex marriages in Utah - even though the state will not do so - and will provide federal benefits to about 1,400 gay couples who wed there before the Supreme Court halted the nuptials this week.
President Barack Obama said on Saturday he joined Israelis in honoring the late Ariel Sharon's commitment to Israel and he affirmed traditional US support for Israel's security.
Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's body lay in state outside parliament in Jerusalem, where thousands of Israelis waited to bid farewell to the maverick warrior-statesman who reshaped the Middle East.
US stocks tumbled on caution ahead of corporate results, as mounting negative pre-announcements left a lackluster profit growth outlook.
Israel paid homage to former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the first of two funeral services being held for a man celebrated as a war hero at home but seen by many in the Arab world as a war criminal.
World powers and Iran will very likely meet again on Tehran's nuclear ambitions in February, shortly after a six-month deal restricting its atomic work goes into effect, a diplomatic source has confirmed.
President Barack Obama urged Congress to resist the temptation to approve new economic sanctions against Iran and said lawmakers instead should give diplomacy and peace a chance to work.
US stocks rose erasing much of the previous session's steep drop, after as a strong December retail sales reading eased concerns about a slowdown in the economy.
Negotiators in the US Congress unveiled a $1.1 trillion spending bill that aims to prevent another government shutdown while boosting funding levels slightly for military and domestic programs - but not for "Obamacare" health reforms.
The US Supreme Court has ruled that Daimler AG cannot be sued in California over human rights allegations in a decision that is a boost for multinational companies facing lawsuits alleging misconduct abroad. The German-based automaker faced allegations that a subsidiary violated the human rights of workers at a plant in Argentina in the 1970s.
Israel's hawkish defence minister drew rare US condemnation over reports he had denounced Secretary of State John Kerry's quest for Israeli-Palestinian peace as messianic and obsessive.
Israel's hawkish defence minister apologised to US Secretary of State John Kerry after a newspaper quoted him scorning the diplomat's quest for Israeli-Palestinian peace as messianic and obsessive.
US stocks rose with the S&P 500 climbing to an all-time closing high after strong earnings from Bank of America and data signaled that the economy was improving.
Bomb attacks and shootings killed at least 75 people in Iraq, police and hospital sources said, making it one of the bloodiest days in months.
The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a $1.1 trillion spending bill that quashes the threat of a government shutdown through Sept. 30 and offers lawmakers a chance to end four years of chaotic, crisis-driven budgeting.
The Dow and S&P 500 slipped with the S&P retreating from the previous session's record high, after earnings from Goldman Sachs and other banks disappointed investors.
Washington's battles over government funding ended with a whimper as the US Senate approved a $1.1 trillion spending bill that quells for nearly nine months the threat of another federal agency shutdown.
Wall Street stocks fell as quarterly earnings of Intel and General Electric disappointed, contributing to a decline in a measure of global equity markets, while the dollar hit a seven-week high against the euro.
Obama on Friday took a swipe at Edward Snowden, the former US spy contractor whose revelations about American surveillance practices tarnished relations with foreign allies and prompted reforms in Washington.
A bomb planted by Taliban insurgents ripped through a vehicle carrying Pakistani troops, killing 20 soldiers and prompting Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to cancel his trip to the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos this week.
Iran has halted its most disputed nuclear activity under a ground-breaking deal with six world powers, a confidential UN atomic agency report obtained by Reuters showed, paving the way for the easing of some Western sanctions against Tehran.
The United States has insisted that a UN invitation to Iran to attend a January 22 peace conference on ending Syria's war should be withdrawn unless Tehran fully supports a 2012 plan to establish a transitional government in Syria.
The United States has followed through on promised sanctions relief for Iran covering oil exports, trade in precious metals and automotive services as part of a nuclear agreement that began taking effect this week.
Visions of what Martin Luther King Jr. would do to promote civil rights in 2014 marked speeches and commemorations to honour his memory. Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said the civil rights leader would want school children to hear it as a call to stay in school and become educated to better the world.
US stocks mostly rose with the S&P 500 snapping a two-session decline as the materials sector rallied, though the Dow fell on disappointing earnings by three of its components.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Republican Party star enmeshed in scandal after re-election in November, will return to the themes of small government and bipartisan cooperation when he is sworn in for a second term today.
Obama is scheduled to meet with the pope on March 27 in a trip that will include stops in the Netherlands, Belgium and other parts of Italy, the White House announced in a statement.
The International Monetary Fund has raised its global growth forecast for the first time in nearly two years, saying fading economic headwinds should permit advanced nations to pick up the mantle of growth from emerging markets.
At least one person died during a shooting this afternoon at Purdue University, Indiana, campus police Chief reported. The suspected was arrested.
Edward Snowden needs better security after a news report quoted unnamed US intelligence officials saying they wanted the former spy agency contractor dead and discussing ways to kill him, his Russian lawyer said.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said it was possible to turn more than three decades of enmity with the United States into friendship if both sides made an effort.
Iran is negotiating with the United States as part of a "constructive engagement" with the world community and wants Washington to back up its words with actions, President Hassan Rouhani said.
North Korea took its demand for the US and South Korea to halt joint military drills to the UN, holding a rare news conference to warn the exercises could get "out of control and plunge into disaster."
Edward Snowden would be willing to enter talks with US Attorney General Eric Holder to negotiate his return to the United States but not without a guarantee of amnesty, his legal adviser said.
US President Barack Obama's strategy to bypass Congress this year with executive orders to advance his policy agenda have received a cold reaction from Republican leaders, who accused the White House of arrogance and sidestepping the political process.
US prosecutors today announced charges against two men operating Bitcoin exchange businesses for attempting to sell $1 million in the digital currency to users of the underground black market website Silk Road, which was shut down by authorities in September.
US stocks rebounded today after Pfizer's upbeat results gave investors some relief from the pain of the Dow's five-day losing streak, and the market's focus turned to the Federal Reserve's next move on stimulus.
In an article published by the editorial board of the New York Times, the newspaper expressed that "Argentina needs to do a lot more to address inflation," and criticized President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner administration for "picking unnecessary fights with private businesses and investors."
A pending US framework proposal to propel stumbling Israeli-Palestinian peace talks forward chipped away at a troubled alliance between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and an ultranationalist ally in his governing coalition.
The United States accused Syria of dragging its feet on the handover of chemical weapons, a delay that puts at risk what US President Barack Obama touted only this week as a US diplomatic achievement in Syria's civil war.
US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has alleged that a Syrian faction of al Qaeda seeks to perform an attack on US soil.
Navy Vice Admiral Michael Rogers, the head of US Fleet Cyber Command, is not expected immediately to change the NSA, shaken by revelations by former contractor Edward Snowden.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was greeted with audible boos and a few loud cheers during a Super Bowl-related appearance in New York City, a day after a former appointee said the popular Republican knew about politically motivated lane closures near a busy commuter bridge.
Iran's foreign minister held rare private talks with his US counterpart today and said it would be a "disaster" if Tehran did not turn a provisional agreement to defuse a decade-old dispute over its nuclear programme into a permanent deal.
An agreement on Iran's nuclear programme is possible within six months if there is good will, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Minister Mohammad Zarif said today, adding that he was not worried about the US Congress trying to impose new sanctions.
An initial agreement to curb Iran's nuclear program was "not perfect" but bought time to try to secure a comprehensive deal, US officials said in response to sharp criticism from Congress.
An unusually heavy winter storm slammed into US mid-section, heading east and threatening roughly two-thirds of the country with what forecasters said could be up to a foot (30 cm) of snow.
Syria today missed a deadline to hand over all the toxic materials it declared to the world's chemical weapons watchdog, putting the program several weeks behind schedule and jeopardizing a final June 30 deadline.
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder accused the United States of showing "no respect" for Germany's sovereignty after a newspaper reported today the US National Security Agency (NSA) had bugged his phone from at least 2002.
Utility crews worked to restore power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in the US Northeast after a snow and ice storm slammed the region. But flights began returning to normal after thousands of delays or cancellations.
A gala week of designer fashion shows kicked off in New York, where insiders said to expect everything from fringe and shearling to pared-down monochrome on styles coming down the runways.
The Obama administration targeted a host of businesses across Europe and the Middle East for evading sanctions against Iran, a signal that Washington aims to keep pressure on Tehran over its nuclear program.
An east-west struggle over Ukraine turned nastier as Moscow accused the United States of fomenting a coup and Washington pointed a finger at Russia for leaking a recording of US diplomats discussing how to shape a new government in Kiev.
Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich today reacted to US senators' remarks who harshly criticized Argentina during a hearing in the US Congress.
Syria began evacuating civilians from a besieged area of Homs today while Russia announced that Syria's warring parties had agreed a three-day ceasefire to allow humanitarian aid in to those who remain.
The United States issued a fresh travel alert for Americans attending the Sochi Winter Olympics, citing cybersecurity threats and warning them to have "no expectation of privacy" using Russian communications networks.
Joseph E. StiglitzSoon after the global financial crisis erupted in 2008, I warned that unless the right policies were adopted, Japanese-style malaise — slow growth and near-stagnant incomes for years to come — could set in.
David RohdeOver the last two weeks, Obama administration officials have signaled — sometimes intentionally, sometimes not — that a worst-case scenario is emerging in Syria.
Iran's Supreme Leader said the United States would overthrow the Iranian government if it could, adding Washington had a "controlling and meddlesome" attitude towards the Islamic Republic, Iranian media reported.
One of Miami Beach's most notorious pieces of real estate is back on the block: the asking price is almost $8.5 million.
An Iranian naval officer said a number of warships had been ordered to approach US maritime borders as a response to the stationing of US vessels in the Gulf, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
The UN nuclear agency has said that Iran had agreed to start addressing suspicions that it may have worked on designing an atomic weapon, a potential breakthrough in a long-stalled investigation into Tehran's atomic activities.
By Sebastián LacunzaIn recent weeks the Argentine government has faced a barrage of criticism from both politicians and press in the United States.
Iran's military has successfully test-fired two new domestically made missiles, one of them a long-range ballistic missile, the defence minister said today.
The US government has delayed another part of President Barack Obama's signature health reform law, saying medium-sized businesses would not face a tax penalty until 2016 for not providing employees with health coverage.
The dollar rose and global equity markets rallied after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said she expects the US central bank to continue trimming its bond purchases, a sign the Fed believes the economy is on track to grow further.
Researchers found that women between 20 and 44 years old who had smoked a pack of cigarettes per day for at least 10 years were 60 percent more likely than those who smoked less to develop so-called estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer.
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said today the US central bank was on track to keep reducing its policy stimulus, even as she acknowledged the labor market recovery was "far from complete."
A strong majority of Americans - and an even greater percentage of Floridians - support normalizing relations with Cuba, according to a poll released by the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based think tank.
President Barack Obama issued a sharp warning to companies eyeing business deals with Iran, saying the United States would come down like a "ton of bricks" on those that violated sanctions against Tehran.
Two Afghan men in army uniforms turned their weapons on American forces in east Afghanistan today, killing two US troops, officials said.
The US Congress has approved legislation to increase the country's debt limit for a year, bowing to Obama's demands for a debt limit increase without any conditions after a dramatic Senate vote.
World stock markets were nearly flat as soft US economic data was blamed on bad weather, while the dollar fell to a two-week low against the euro. US stocks rose, with big gains in technology stocks, putting the Nasdaq on track for a sixth straight session of gains, its longest winning streak since December 2011.
Leadership of YPF is key for energy self-sufficiency, the cabinet chief told reporters as he defended yesterday's agreement that involved the purchase of all operations of the US-based oil and gas company Apache by Argentina's state-run firm.
Comcast Corp said it would buy Time Warner Cable Inc for $45.2 billion in an all-stock deal that combines the two largest US cable operators.
The governor of the Buenos Aires province Daniel Scioli today affirmed it is "important" to give foreign investors "predictability and confidence" and stated Argentina offers a future of opportunities, because it is making progress on several pending issues.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai today rejected criticism of his government's release of 65 detainees viewed by Washington as dangerous militants, further fanning tensions with the United States as the international mission in Afghanistan winds down.
The Obama administration made it easier for banks to do business with licensed marijuana companies with less fear of prosecution, further encouraging US states that are experimenting with legalization of the drug.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she would talk to French President Francois Hollande about building up a European communication network to avoid emails and other data passing through the US.
US President Barack Obama signed legislation today that raises the US debt limit through March 2015, taking the politically volatile issue off the table with congressional elections coming up this November.
The United States accused Damascus today of paralyzing Geneva peace talks, while Russia said nations backing Syrian rebels were leaning toward a military, not a negotiated, outcome to a civil war whose death toll exceeds 140,000.
The governor of Buenos Aires province, Daniel Scioli, today highlighted the importance of charting a moderate position, by affirming that he was not a fan of neither populism nor liberalism.
Iran's supreme leader vowed to continue nuclear talks resuming with world powers tomorrow despite some reservations, in his strongest sign of support for moderate President Hassan Rouhani's push to resolve the conflict peacefully.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq rose today, following Wall Street's biggest weekly gain of the year, as merger activity increased confidence that there is value in the stock market even as the benchmark index nears a record high.
Six world powers and Iran began talks in pursuit of a final settlement on Tehran's nuclear program in the coming months despite caveats from both sides that a breakthrough deal may prove impossible.
The Argentine government has formally filed a petition seeking the US Supreme Court review of a court order requiring it to pay $1.33 billion to bondholders who refused to take part in two previous debt restructurings.
A US border agent shot a person in a group of suspected illegal immigrants that had pelted the agent with rocks during a confrontation near San Diego.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay urged world powers to refer North Korea to the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor following a report documenting crimes against humanity.
The US Federal Reserve adopted tight new rules for foreign banks to shield the US taxpayer from costly bailouts, ceding only minor concessions despite pressure from abroad to weaken the rule.
Stock markets around the world fell today, with declines accelerating after minutes from a US Federal Reserve policy meeting showed members supported continued tapering of the central bank's bond-buying program barring a significant change in the economy.
Six world powers and Iran strived at a second day of talks in Vienna to hammer out an agenda for reaching a ambitious final settlement to the decade-old standoff over Tehran's nuclear programme.
President Barack Obama warned today that there would be consequences if violence continues in Ukraine, saying the Ukrainian military should not step into a situation that could be resolved by civilians.
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the Federal Reserve decided to maintain the reduction of their monetary stimulus policy "at a moderate rate," official acts revealed.
Seventeen people who brought sexual abuse lawsuits against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles have won a US$13 million legal settlement, with most of the allegations involving a priest who left the country as an investigation got under way.
US President Barack Obama yesterday sharply criticized the Venezuelan government for arresting protesters and urged the government to focus on the "legitimate grievances" of its people.
US stocks climbed after a reading on manufacturing activity hit its highest in nearly four years, while news about Facebook and Tesla drove their shares to record highs.
US President Barack Obama today dropped a measure to trim cost-of-living increases in Social Security from an upcoming budget proposal in an election-year move that may insulate fellow Democrats facing heat from senior voters.
Global equity markets mostly rose and the dollar traded mixed on Friday as recent data that has underpinned hopes for sustained US economic growth offset new data showing home resales fell to an 18-month low last month.
Syria has submitted a new 100-day plan for the removal of its chemical weapons after failing to meet a February 5 deadline, but the international mission overseeing the operation believes it can be done in a shorter time frame, diplomats said today.
President Barack Obama met exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in a show of concern about China's human rights practices, and in spite of warnings from China that the visit would "seriously damage" ties with Washington.
The United States has assured Ukraine it will have "strong support" from Washington in seeking an IMF-backed economic program to stabilize the country's economy after months of crippling street violence, a State Department official said.
Mexico's most wanted man, drugs kingpin Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, was captured with help from US agencies in a major victory for the government in a long, brutal drugs war.
The United States on Saturday welcomed the release from prison of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and pledged to work with its allies, Russia and international organizations to support a unified and democratic Ukraine.
The Afghan Taliban have killed 21 soldiers in an assault in a remote mountainous region, the Afghan government said, and six soldiers were missing after the militants' most deadly assault on the security forces in months.
The Pentagon would shrink the US Army to pre-World War Two levels, eliminate the popular A-10 aircraft and reduce military benefits in order to meet 2015 spending caps, setting up an election-year fight with the Congress over national defense priorities.
US stocks edged lower, easing back from record territory a day earlier as weak economic data offset gains in Home Depot and other retail shares.
The United States today ordered three Venezuelan diplomats to leave in reprisal for President Nicolas Maduro's expulsion of three US embassy staff accused of fomenting unrest that has killed at least 13 people.
US President Barack Obama said today that some 4 million people had signed up for health insurance through exchanges provided by his signature healthcare law known as Obamacare.
US stocks finished flat with investors hesitant to make a big move on the day before comments from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, though retailers' shares rallied on results for a second day.
More than a third of US adults and 17 percent of kids and teens are obese, rates that haven't changed much in a decade, researchers say.
Young men wearing pork-pie hats, knitted snoods and stylishly drab clothing are crowding doctors' waiting rooms in a burgeoning trend: Brooklyn hipsters seeking beard transplants.
Scientists added a record 715 more planets to the list of known worlds beyond the solar system, boosting the overall tally to nearly 1,700, astronomers said.
The US government expressed its approval for the compensation agreement signed between Argentina and Repsol over the expropriation of YPF shares, defining it as "a positive step," a State Department spokesperson said.
Stocks on world markets mostly advanced today, while the S&P 500 closed at a record high, as comments from US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen offset concerns over tension in Ukraine and Russia.
The annual US State Department Report on Human rights has drawn attention to cases of "torture by provincial police, harsh prison conditions and gender violence", as cause for concern in Argentina.
Iran is willing to address international concerns about its atomic activities but will keep its nuclear programme "intact", not close it down, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said.
Democrat senator Bob Menéndez and Republican Senator Marco Rubio have presented a resolution before US legislative upper house demanding sanctions against Venezuela to punish "the violent repression suffered by pacific protesters".
In Buenos Aires City, the Federal Government led by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner officialised the compensation agreement with Spanish Oil Company Repsol, and signed a 5 billion dollar deal for 51 percent of YPF shares.
The US government slashed its estimate for fourth-quarter growth as consumer spending and exports were less robust than initially thought, leaving the economy on a more sustainable path of modest expansion.
US Secretary of State John Kerry condemned Russia's "incredible act of aggression" in Ukraine and threatened "very serious repercussions" from the United States and other countries, including sanctions to isolate Russia economically.
A massive winter storm system packing cold air, snow and freezing rain was bearing down on the US East Coast, causing federal and local offices in Washington to close today after it pummeled the central United States over the weekend.
Even as he grappled with the Ukraine crisis, President Barack Obama turned to White House talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seeking to nudge him forward in Middle East peace efforts and ease his suspicions about diplomacy with Iran.
The United States is preparing to impose sanctions on Russia for its military intervention in Ukraine's Crimea region although no decisions have yet been made, the US State Department said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bluntly told Barack Obama that Israelis expected their leader not to compromise on their security even as the US president sought to reassure him on Iran diplomacy and pressure him on Middle East peace talks.
US stocks rallied, with the S&P 500 closing at a record as concerns about a confrontation between Russia and Ukraine eased, and the market recovered more than all of the previous session's hefty losses.
Vladimir Putin has said that Russia saw no need to use military force in the Crimea region of Ukraine for now and that ousted leader Viktor Yanukovich was still the legitimate leader of Ukraine.
Russia warned the United States from taking unilateral sanctions against its country, while Secretary of State John Kerry visited Ukraine's capital, Kiev.
President Barack Obama proposed new tax credits and job-training programs for US workers today in a 2015 budget that drew instant condemnation from Republicans, who dismissed the document as an election-year campaign pitch.
A judge ruled that video images of a partially-clad Justin Bieber while the pop singer was in police custody in Florida can be released, but only after blocking out his genitals.
US stocks were little changed today after two days of sharp swings as investors shrugged off soft data on jobs and the services sector, while keeping an eye on developments in Ukraine.
Russian forces remain in control of Crimea, where Interfax reported they seized control of two Ukrainian missile defence sites overnight, and Putin gave no sign of backing down.
The federal government has responded to a report by the US State Department that denounces drug-trafficking in Argentina as a "growing problem." Washington has no authority to "grade" other countries, Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman affirmed.
The US Supreme Court today ruled for British company BG Group Plc in its effort to reinstate a $185.3 million arbitration award against Argentina that a US appeals court threw out.
High-level diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis in Ukraine made little apparent headway at talks in Paris with Moscow and Washington at odds and Russia's foreign minister refusing to recognise his Ukrainian counterpart.
President Barack Obama spoke to British Prime Minister David Cameron about the situation in Ukraine, the White House said.
Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich has praised Washington's support to Argentina in its long-standing dispute with the so called vulture funds, suing the South American country over its defaulted bonds more than a decade ago.
The Niagara Falls on the United States and Canadian border has become a winter wonderland for the second time in what has been a deadly blast of arctic air that shattered decades-old temperature records as it enveloped the eastern US.
President Barack Obama said today that a proposed referendum in Crimea to join Russia would violate international law and said US sanctions were aimed at punishing Moscow for its intervention in Ukraine.
The US House of Representatives approved a bill backing $1 billion in loan guarantees for Ukraine, the first formal response by US lawmakers to the worst crisis in US-Russia relations since the Cold War.
President Vladimir Putin rebuffed a warning from US Barack Obama over Moscow's military intervention in Crimea, saying today that Russia could not ignore calls for help from Russian speakers in Ukraine.
Russia has said any US sanctions imposed on Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine will boomerang back on the United States and that Crimea has the right to self-determination as armed men tried to seize another Ukrainian military base on the peninsula.
The United States will not recognize the annexation of Crimea by Russia if residents of the region vote to leave Ukraine in a referendum next week, US national security official Tony Blinken said.
Former security contractor Edward Snowden, addressing a sympathetic crowd at a tech-heavy Austin event from a secret location in Russia, has said proposed reforms at the National Security Agency show that he was vindicated in leaking classified material.
More than two dozen US Senate Democrats have joined forces to speak through the night, hoping to "wake up" Congress to what is seen as the threat of climate change.
US stocks were little changed as investors found few reasons to push the S&P 500 above its recent record high, as tensions in Ukraine continued.
The Parliament in Crimea have asked Moscow today to allow the southern Ukrainian region to become part of the Russian Federation and closed its airspace to commercial flights.
US stocks finished little changed, with the Nasdaq up for the first session in five, as investors grappled with the evolving situation in Ukraine but shrugged off concern over weakness in China's economy.
US lawmakers will consider legislation that would impose strict sanctions on Russia over its intervention in Ukraine, implement reforms of the International Monetary Fund and provide aid to the new government in Kiev.
US stocks tumbled, with the Dow and the S&P 500 suffering their worst day since early February, on rising concerns over Ukraine and Russia and new signs of a slowdown in China.
US House Speaker John Boehner invited Pope Francis to address a joint session of Congress - an unprecedented event - during an expected visit to the United States next year.
The United States and the European Union will take serious steps against Russia if a referendum planned for Sunday in Ukraine's Crimea region results in Russian annexation, US Secretary of State John Kerry said today.
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg blasted the US government's electronic surveillance practices, saying he'd personally called President Barack Obama to voice his displeasure.
The United States circulated a draft resolution to the UN Security Council that would declare Sunday's planned referendum on independence for Ukraine's Crimea region illegal, but Russia has vowed to veto it, council diplomats said.
Wall Street ended lower with all three major stock indexes down for the week, as concerns over tensions between Ukraine and Russia escalated ahead of a referendum in Crimea this weekend.
A draft UN Security Council resolution declares that Sunday's planned referendum on Crimea's status "can have no validity" and urges nations and international organizations not to recognize it, according to a copy obtained by Reuters.
The US and Russia found no middl