Democrats swept statewide contests in Virginia, New Jersey, California and Pennsylvania and racked up victories in lower profile races, leaving party leaders jubilant and eager to declare the electio...

The lives of millions of Americans continue to be disrupted as the US government shutdown entered its 36th day, breaking the record as the longest ever.

"If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him," the mayor-elect said, "it is the city that gave rise to him."

The death toll in a catastrophic airplane crash that sent a United Postal Service aircraft into a ball of flames has risen to nine on Wednesday as authorities continue search and rescue and investiga...

The Louisville airport in Kentucky said on Tuesday an aircraft was involved in an incident and that the airfield has been closed, after local media reported that a cargo plane had crashed.

“Anybody who has seen the images, the video, knows how violent this crash is,” he said.

He’s a self-described democratic socialist pushing a progressive message of fighting inequality, protecting the rights of immigrants and making life more affordable in one of the world’s most expensi...

Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist who seized on discontent with the high cost of living, was elected New York City mayor on Tuesday, as Democrats swept elections across the US in a rebuke to Dona...

In winning, Mamdani has become the first Muslim and first South Asian mayor of New York, and youngest person in a century to be elected to the position.