Americas

Every four years, the US presidential inauguration ceremony temporarily turns Washington into a giant concert stage, where power rubs shoulders with glamour. The highlight of the show is when one…

Exhausted Los Angeles firefighters on Sunday braced for the return of yet more dangerously strong gusts, as California‘s governor slammed “hurricane-force winds of misinformation” surrounding blazes that have killed 27…

US President-elect Donald Trump vowed a blitz of emergency actions Sunday at a huge victory rally on the eve of his inauguration, starting with a crackdown on an “invasion” of…

Thousands of Donald Trump’s supporters waited for hours in the cold and rain to attend his victory rally on Sunday, a day before the president-elect returns to power with plans…

A double yellow line marks the centre of Route 29, expanding at the top of each rolling hill that sweeps across the frozen landscape of northeast Pennsylvania. From the former…

Thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of Washington on Saturday in protest at the policies of Donald Trump and his Republican Party, two days before the billionaire reclaims the…

US immigration authorities will carry out mass arrests of undocumented immigrants across the country on Tuesday, a top border official in the incoming administration of Donald Trump has said. The…

Nestled between lofty brick family homes on a bucolic street, Iglesia Betania blends in almost seamlessly. If it were not for its decorated lancet windows and boxy red entrance sign,…

A Bolivian judge on Friday ordered the arrest of ex-president Evo Morales over his alleged relationship with a teenage girl while in office, raising the stakes in the nation’s months-long…

The US Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that will ban TikTok in the United States, potentially denying the video-sharing app to 170 million users in two days. In…