The Republican-led Senate was determined to install Pete Hegseth as Pentagon chief, but the vote was 50-50 and required the tie-breaking vote of the vice president.
Record high winds from Storm Eowyn battered Ireland and Northern Ireland, leaving one man dead and almost one-third of Irish homes and businesses without power.
Two historic statues were damaged in Melbourne ahead of Australia Day celebrations today when tens of thousands are expected to join protests in support of Aboriginal people who say...
Many Australians will make a beeline for the beach or a barbecue on Australia Day while others will shun festivities or take to the streets in protest on the national day.
A federal judge has blocked Donald Trump's executive order curtailing the right to automatic birthright citizenship in the United States, calling it "blatantly unconstitutional."
The Hughes Fire broke out in the late morning and quickly ripped through 9 square kilometres of trees and brush, sending up a huge plume of dark smoke.
The US President signed an order aiming to declassify remaining records on the assassinations of President John F Kennedy, Senator Robert F Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.
US President Donald Trump says top infectious disease official Dr. Anthony Fauci cannot have government-provided security forever, and urged him to hire his own.
US immigration agents have raided a business establishment in Newark, New Jersey, and detained undocumented residents as well as citizens, including a US military veteran, the city's mayor said.
Pete Hegseth was sworn in as the nation's 29th secretary of defence, quickly joining President Trump's Cabinet after a dramatic late-night vote in the Senate.
The 29-year-old became the oldest first-time grand slam champion in a decade with a roller-coaster 6-3 2-6 7-5 victory at Rod Laver Arena on Saturday night.
Hundreds of Jenin residents left their homes on Thursday, prompted by messages from drones fitted with loudspeakers, witnesses said, as the military demolished a number of houses on the...
On the first day of US rapper A$AP Rocky’s trial, jurors saw surveillance videos that a prosecutor argued make it clear the rapper fired a gun in 2021 at his former friend.