Donald Trump has appointed conservative commentator Katie Zacharia as his new White House press secretary.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has hit out at the “weak decision” by Donald Trump to strike a deal to obtain diesel from Russia, describing it as a “gift to Putin”.

Hurricane Isaias is set to make landfall along the Alabama and Florida coasts on Friday night in the US.

A US immigration officer shot a man as he drove in a car with a five-year-old boy in New York City, officials have said.

A US Navy ship on which crew members reportedly experienced “serious and deteriorating” conditions has returned home following a record deployment in the Middle East. 

The firing squad execution of an ex-US army psychiatrist who killed 13 people in Texas will be livestreamed.

Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores have been charged by US authorities with conspiracy to commit torture in a new superseding indictment.

The Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from 1 June to 30 November, has been unusually quiet this year.

A Texas death row inmate has been put to death by lethal injection – despite objections following Christa Pike’s botched execution last week. 

A planned gun attack on the largest mall in the US was prevented after a teenager was arrested trying to buy an assault rifle, according to officials.