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The former South Carolina governor made her first remarks at UN headquarters before presenting her diplomatic credentials to Guterres.

PRESIDENT Donald Trump has declared the “whole world is angry right now”, as he outlined his plans to screen people coming in to the US, fight terrorism and build a wall on the US border with Mexico.

One of the first condemnations of the presidential orders came from the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, which denounced them as “a betrayal of our most important political, moral, and constitutional values.”

The US army private serving a 35-year prison sentence for leaking classified documents has thanked President Barack Obama for shortening her sentence.

The widow of the man who killed 49 people at a Florida gay nightclub knew of the attack before it happened, a court in California has heard.

President Barack Obama has commuted Chelsea Manning's sentence for leaking documents to Wikileaks in 2010.

The credibility of the file has been questioned by various top-tier officials.

Rep. John Lewis said he would not invite President-elect Donald Trump on a visit to Selma, Alabama with him in an interview released after Trump attacked the congressman on Twitter. Lewis has frequently visited the city with politicians from both sides of the aisle over the years

The U.S. Justice Department has issued a scathing report on civil rights abuses by Chicago's police department over the years.

A US government watchdog has launched an investigation into actions taken by the FBI during the election campaign.

The Justice Department inspector general says he will investigate the actions of the Justice Department and FBI in the months leading up to the 2016 election, including whether department policies were followed by FBI Director James Comey

President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be the new attorney general has denied sympathising with the Ku Klux Klan, in a tough Senate confirmation hearing.

A white supremacist has been sentenced to death for the racially motivated killings of nine black people at a South Carolina church in 2015.

The first of the Trump administration’s most controversial nominees to appear for Senate confirmation

A GUNMAN opened fire inside the baggage claim area at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, killing five people and injuring as many as eight.

Trump’s transition team has reportedly signaled to Congress that the president-elect’s preference is to fund the border wall through a congressional appropriations process as soon as April, but Trump insists Mexico will pay for the wall, just later. Buzz60

RT’s reporting on US issues was part of a “multifaceted Russian campaign” to undermine America, according to the outgoing Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

IN RECENT weeks there has been no end of American commentators willing to bet their credibility on the coming collapse of America, thanks to Trump.

The FBI has made public documents related to the controversial October reopening of its probe into Hillary Clinton’s private email server; the Democratic presidential candidate has blamed the investigation announcement for her defeat at the polls.

The Fed’s expectations for short-term GDP growth increased slightly to 2.1% in 2017