Trump rejects Iran plan to open Hormuz
AFP, Washington
27 September 2026 • United States
PM, UN chief discuss Rohingya crisis, climate change
BSS, New York
26 September 2026 • United States
Trump to fete Xi with lavish White House welcome
AFP, Washington
24 September 2026 • World
Trump invites Putin to G20 summit
AFP,  United Nations
24 September 2026 • United States
Xi to get rare airport welcome from Trump
AFP, Washington
24 September 2026 • United States
Trump urges complete isolation of Iran at UN
Agencies
23 September 2026 • United States
Red Sea mission needs more than 10 warships: Kallas
Reuters, New York
23 September 2026 • United States
Trump praises Mamdani
AFP, New York
23 September 2026 • United States
Trump set to meet Zohran Mamdani
AFP, New York
22 September 2026 • United States
White House access ban on media: Major US networks halt Trump coverage
AFP, Washington
22 September 2026 • United States

Biden discusses F-16 sale with Erdogan

US President Joe Biden said Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in a call on Monday repeated Ankara’s desire to buy F-16 fighter jets from the United States, while Biden told him Washington wanted Ankara to drop its objection to Sweden’s joining Nato. The exchange took place when Biden called Erdogan to congratulate him on his victory in Turkey’s presidential election on Sunday.
30 May 2023

Biden says final US debt ceiling deal ready to move to Congress for vote

US President Joe Biden said on Sunday he had finalised a budget agreement with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to suspend the US$31.4 trillion (S$42.5 trillion) debt ceiling until Jan 1, 2025, and that the deal was ready to move to Congress for a vote
29 May 2023

Republicans, Biden reach debt ceiling deal

President Joe Biden and Republican leader Kevin McCarthy announced a deal Saturday to raise the debt ceiling, dragging the United States back from the precipice of default with only a few days to spare.
28 May 2023

Biden cuts deal in principle with Republicans to avert catastrophic US default

US President Joe Biden and Republican lawmakers struck a deal in principle to raise the country's debt ceiling Saturday, in a crucial first step towards eliminating the threat of a disastrous default with just days to spare
28 May 2023

Race for US debt deal as talks go to the wire

Democrats and Republicans yesterday seemed within grasping distance of a deal to end the US debt ceiling standoff, with both sides playing hardball in the final race for an agreement to avert a potentially catastrophic default.
27 May 2023

Political visionary or warmonger? Henry Kissinger turns 100

At 100, Henry Kissinger is both hailed for his diplomatic brilliance and condemned for his decisions that cost many lives. He is America’s most experienced statesman and firmly focused on the future rather than the past
27 May 2023

Biden sounds hopeful on debt ceiling, Treasury warns of June 5 default

Democratic President Joe Biden and a Republican negotiator said on Friday they were working on a deal to raise the US government's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling after the Treasury Department warned that a June 5 default loomed without action
27 May 2023

Meta slashes business teams in final round of layoffs

Meta Platforms Inc, owner of Facebook, slashed jobs across its business and operations units on Wednesday as it carried out its last batch of a three-part round of layoffs, part of a plan announced in March to eliminate 10,000 roles.
25 May 2023

Probe reveals how Jupiter’s lightning resembles Earth’s

Hidden below the brownish ammonia clouds blanketing Jupiter are clouds that like on Earth are made of water. And like on Earth, lightning often is generated within these clouds -- an eerie sight spotted by various spacecraft that have visited our solar system’s largest planet, including Nasa’s Juno probe.
25 May 2023

Chinese hackers spying on US critical infrastructure

A state-sponsored Chinese hacking group has been spying on a wide range of US critical infrastructure organizations, from telecommunications to transportation hubs, Western intelligence agencies and Microsoft MSFT.O said on Wednesday.
25 May 2023

'Queen of rock 'n' roll' Tina Turner dies at 83

Tina Turner, the American-born singer who left a hardscrabble farming community and abusive relationship to become one of the top recording artists of all time, died on Wednesday at the age of 83
24 May 2023

DeSantis set to enter White House race

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was set to launch his 2024 presidential campaign yesterday, signalling 18 months of acrimony ahead as he and Donald Trump lock horns in what is expected to be an attritional contest for the Republican nomination.
24 May 2023

Driver crashes near White House, arrested for trying to kill Biden

A man who crashed a U-Haul truck containing a Nazi flag near the White House has been arrested and charged with trying to kill or harm the president, police said Tuesday
24 May 2023

Fossils reveal ancient beast’s epic journey to oblivion

It was a dire moment for life on Earth. Runaway global warming triggered by calamitous volcanism in Siberia inflicted the worst mass extinction on record -- dooming perhaps 90 percent of species -- roughly 252 million years ago at the end of the Permian Period.
23 May 2023

Biden announces new US arms, ammunition package for Ukraine

US President Joe Biden announced Sunday a new weapons package for Kyiv, as he met his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in Hiroshima.
21 May 2023

NASA taps Bezos’s Blue Origin to build Moon lander

Two years after awarding Elon Musk’s SpaceX a contract to ferry astronauts to the surface of the Moon, NASA on Friday announced it had chosen Blue Origin, a rival space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, to build a second lunar lander.
20 May 2023

FBI routinely accessed Americans’ private communications: court

The FBI frequently abused a restricted database of Americans’ personal communications, looking up the names of crime victims and participants in Black Lives Matter protests and the 2021 Capitol assault, documents released Friday showed.
20 May 2023

Tim Scott, lone Black Republican in US Senate, to run for president

Republican US Senator Tim Scott has entered the 2024 presidential race, according to a filing with the US election regulator on Friday, in what amounts to a long-shot bet that a message of unity and optimism can still appeal in a party where many voters are hungry for a bare-knuckled fight.
19 May 2023

From sunglasses to milking machines, US halts more exports to Russia

The Biden administration halted the export of a wide range of consumer goods to Russia on Friday and added 71 companies to a trade blacklist, as the Group of Seven wealthy nations announced new sanctions on Moscow over its war in Ukraine.
19 May 2023

Iran, Russia expanding military

The United States said Monday that Iran and Russia are “expanding their unprecedented defense partnership,” as Moscow ramps up ties with Tehran after being hit with Western sanctions.
16 May 2023