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BBC News The US Treasury has agreed to sell part of its stake in American International Group (AIG), as it winds down ownership of the global insurer. The government plans to sell 200 million AIG shares at $29 (£18) each, a total of $5.8bn. It stands to make as much as $7.1bn, if Wall...

BBC News The trial has opened in Florida of a young US woman accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter in 2008. Prosecutors base their case on forensic evidence they say shows Casey Anthony, 25, kept Caylee Anthony's dead body in the boot of her car. But they have no witnesses or...

BBC News Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he wants the social networking site to let children under the age of 13 use it. At the moment that age limit is dictated by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act which was made Federal Law in America in 1998. But Zuckerberg...

With the Election in the not to distance future Members in the Soapbox have been repeating the same thing in many different threads ..... "The G'ment should not be involved" My question's are (to further my education :p) ...... How can this be achieved? Has it gone too...

BBC News The US administration is examining the legality of continuing in the Nato-led Libya campaign beyond Friday. The War Powers Resolution, passed after US withdrawal from the Vietnam War, rules that involvement in combat operations unauthorised by Congress must be terminated after 60...

BBC News The US is to impose sanctions on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for human rights abuses, sources have said. It would be the first time Mr Assad has been targeted personally by the international community for his government's crackdown on protesters. President Barack Obama...

BBC News By Tom Geoghegan BBC News, Washington With two more Republicans dropping out of the 2012 presidential race, and others still holding back, the field of candidates to take on President Barack Obama has yet to take shape. Why? Within a little over a year-and-a-half, the United...

AP WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday ruled against a Kentucky man who was arrested after police burst into his apartment without a search warrant because they smelled marijuana and feared he was trying to get rid of incriminating evidence. Voting 8-1, the justices reversed a...

BBC News The US will seek to expand domestic oil production in an attempt to reduce dependence on imported oil and bring down fuel prices, President Obama says. New leases for exploration will be granted in non-protected areas of Alaska and in the Gulf of Mexico. In his weekly address...

Reuters BOSTON — A charismatic communicator with an actor's good looks, a glowing resume and socially conservative politics, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney could be a dream candidate for Republicans in the 2008 White House race. But is America ready to elect a Mormon president...

Saw this on the news this afternoon ..... An "aspiring Beauty Pageant Queen" 8 year old Britney Campbell is being given Botox injections by her mother. Apparently Britney saw her mother having Botox injections and told her mother she wanted them too - her mother agreed and gives her up to...

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's approval rating has hit its highest point in two years — 60 percent — and more than half of Americans now say he deserves to be re-elected, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll taken after U.S. forces killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. In...

BBC News US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has called on China to rely more on its own spending and less on exports. "The challenge is to lay the foundation for a new growth model, driven more by domestic demand," he advised his Chinese counterparts. His comments came at the start of a...

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – A photo of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's birth certificate was published by a newspaper on Saturday even though there is no doubt the Indian American Republican was born in the United States. Jindal, who is not running for president in 2012 but is mentioned as a...

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A tour bus driver who struck a pedestrian on a midtown Manhattan street was charged on Sunday with drunk driving and vehicular manslaughter, police said. Steve Drappel, 57, of West Palm Beach, Florida, hit the pedestrian as he turned a corner near Times Square shortly...

BBC News A new protest movement sparked by a policeman's ill-judged advice to women students to "avoid dressing like sluts" has taken root in the US and Canada. Thousands of people - some dressed in jeans, others more provocatively - are taking part in marches, or "SlutWalks". The aim...

AP COLUMBIA, S.C. – It's been a busy first week back in the United States for Republican Jon Huntsman. President Barack Obama's former ambassador to China no sooner stepped off the plane from Beijing than he was meeting with advisers in Washington, courting donors in New York and wooing...

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Texas on Tuesday carried out its first execution using a sedative often used to euthanize animals. Cary Kerr, 46, was put to death by lethal injection for the 2001 sexual assault and strangling of Pamela Horton. The new drug, pentobarbital, replaced sodium...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – U.S. immigration agents descended on Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurants on Tuesday, interviewing employees in about two dozen outlets in Los Angeles, Atlanta and other cities. Roughly 500 undocumented workers have been fired as a result of U.S. Immigration and Customs...

BBC News US officials have denied an accusation from former President Jimmy Carter that the US is withholding food aid from North Korea. A state department official said the North Korean government was responsible for the plight of its people. US food aid was suspended two years ago...