United States

• Friday, October 13th 2017 - 12:11 UTC

  Israel follows the US and will pull out of “highly politicized” UNESCO

  

  Israel has said it will join the US in pulling out of the UN's cultural organization Unesco, after US officials cited “anti-Israel bias”. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the US decision as “brave and moral,” a statement said.

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• Thursday, October 12th 2017 - 20:48 UTC

  US elimination of 2018 World Cup, a blow to Fox Sports and FIFA partners

  

  The United States men’s soccer team was eliminated from World Cup qualifiers Tuesday, a shocking result that could leave sponsors and media partners in the lurch for millions of dollars. The US fell 2-1 on the road to Trinidad & Tobago. That result, coupled with wins by Panama and Honduras, eliminated the Americans from contention for a spot in the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

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• Friday, October 6th 2017 - 09:08 UTC

  US gun lobby admits “bump-lock devices” restriction to control automatic weapons

  

  The US gun lobby, which has seldom embraced new firearms-control measures, voiced a readiness on Thursday to restrict a rifle accessory that enabled a Las Vegas gunman to strafe a crowd with bursts of sustained fire as if from an automatic weapon.

• Tuesday, October 3rd 2017 - 21:31 UTC

  Nobel Prize in Medicine for three US scientists work on the body's daily rhythms

  

  Three United States scientists have won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The three were recognized for their work on the body’s daily rhythms -- the biological processes that our bodies repeat over and over again.

• Monday, October 2nd 2017 - 17:38 UTC

  Paddock's family “completely dumbfounded”. Nevada does not require firearms owners to have licenses or register them

  

  The suspected gunman behind the Las Vegas massacre made several large gambling transactions in recent weeks, according to law enforcement officials. The transactions by Stephen Paddock were in the tens of thousands in Las Vegas, the officials said. It was not immediately clear if those transactions were losses or wins.

• Monday, October 2nd 2017 - 17:33 UTC

  Madness in Las Vegas: “Lone wolf” kills and injures 580; Trump calls it “an act of pure evil”

  

  At least 58 people have been killed and more than five hundreds injured in a mass shooting at a Las Vegas concert. A gunman, named as 64-year-old Nevada resident Stephen Paddock, opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel towards an open-air music festival attended by 22,000.

• Saturday, September 30th 2017 - 13:16 UTC

  Expectation: John F. Kennedy's assassination never seen documents could be released next month

  

  The anticipated release of thousands of never-seen government documents related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination has scholars and armchair detectives buzzing. However, President Donald Trump could yet block the release of files that could shed light on a tragedy that has stirred conspiracy theories for decades.

• Thursday, September 28th 2017 - 07:22 UTC

  Trump announces a “once in a generation” sweeping tax reform

  

  United States President Donald Trump has unveiled sweeping tax reforms which if passed by the Congress would bring down the business tax rate to 15%, introduce territorial tax system that would offer level playing field to American companies.

• Thursday, September 28th 2017 - 06:51 UTC

  Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner died at age 91 in Los Angeles

  

  Playboy founder Hugh M. Hefner, the pipe-smoking hedonist who revved up the sexual revolution in the 1950s and built a multimedia empire of clubs, mansions, movies and television, symbolized by bow-tied women in bunny costumes, has died at age 91. He died of natural causes at his home surrounded by family Wednesday night, Playboy said in a statement.

• Wednesday, September 20th 2017 - 22:12 UTC

  US current account deficit climbing, but so is net capital inflows

  

  US current account deficit, which is the broadest measure of US trade, rose to US$123.1bn in the second quarter - its highest level since 2008. The rising gap was driven by a US$5.2bn fall in income receipts from foreigners, particularly in government fines and penalties.