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BBC News US President Barack Obama has sent up Donald Trump's presidential ambitions, joking that the real-estate mogul would turn the White House into a casino. During the White House correspondents' annual dinner Mr Obama showed a picture of a White House with girls in bikinis sipping...

BBC News A Nato air strike in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, has killed the son of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, a government spokesman has said. Colonel Gaddafi himself was in the large residential villa which was hit by the strike, the spokesman added, but was unharmed. His son Saif...

AP 15 minutes ago WASHINGTON – The economy and job creation have strengthened enough for the Federal Reserve to end its $600 billion Treasury bond-buying program in June as planned, the Fed signaled Wednesday. Ending a two-day meeting, the Fed made no changes to the program. The decision...

BBC News Gen David Petraeus, the US head of international forces in Afghanistan, will be nominated as CIA director when its chief moves to head the Pentagon, unnamed US officials have said. CIA director Leon Panetta will be nominated to take over as US defence secretary when Robert Gates...

NYC board: Trump skipped primary voting 21 years AP NEW YORK – Donald Trump says he's considering running in the primary for the Republican presidential nomination, but the real estate mogul didn't vote in primary elections for more than two decades, according to the New York City Board of...

The Daily Beast - Meghan McCain Is The Donald serious? As his poll numbers continue to soar, it’s starting to look that way. On TV, Trump headlines The Apprentice, but on the telephone with me he sounded like he was considering a presidential run. He even invited me to his press conference...

BBC News US regulators have fined a former hedge fund trader $30m (£18.2m) for manipulating the natural gas market. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Ferc) levied the fine on Brian Hunter, Amaranth's lead energy trader, for violating the Commission's anti-manipulation rules...

BBC World News in America Matt Frei As a journalist, I am rooting for Donald Trump to plunge headlong into the presidential race. He will of course be entertaining. His hair will flop like a doormat in the chill winds of Iowa. It will labour and droop in the humid air of Florida. He will...

By CURT ANDERSON, Ap Legal Affairs Writer – 22 mins ago MIAMI – The White House drug czar wants doctors, states and law enforcement working harder to stop America's deadliest drug-abuse problem: highly addictive prescription painkillers. They are killing more people than heroin and cocaine...

BBC News The US soldier accused of leaking a trove of secret government documents later published by the Wikileaks website is to be moved to a military prison in Kansas, officials have said. Pte First Class Bradley Manning has been held pending court martial at a Marine Corps base in...

The Week New York – After plummeting in the polls and being written off by pundits, Palin gives a rousing, campaign-like speech in Wisconsin. Is the Mama Grizzly back? It's been a rough few months for Sarah Palin. Her poll numbers took a nose dive, and pundits on both sides all but...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court took no action Monday on a request to speed up a ruling on President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul law, his signature domestic accomplishment that has provoked a fierce political battle. The justices were scheduled on Friday to consider the state...

BBC News The US has been warned that the credit rating on its government debt could be cut by Standard & Poor's. S&P is concerned that Democrats and Republicans will not be able to agree a plan to reduce the growing US deficit. It has downgraded its outlook from stable to negative...

BBC News Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has taken the first formal step towards running for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. Mr Romney, who ran a failed bid in 2008, is setting up a committee to explore the feasibility of a run. "It is time that we put America...

BBC News South African President Jacob Zuma says the Libyan government has accepted an African Union peace plan to end the eight-week-old conflict. Mr Zuma and three other African leaders met Libya's leader, Col Muammar Gaddafi, in Tripoli on Sunday. An AU team is now going on to the...

BBC News The United States government is spending millions of dollars developing technology to help pro-democracy activists in the Middle East and China. Washington has begun to open-up about the projects which include a "panic button" that lets protesters wipe their mobile phones if...

BBC News China has told the US to stop preaching on human rights, after the state department's annual report on the issue criticised China. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said the US should concentrate on its own rights issues and stop interfering. Chinese authorities have launched...

BBC News US troops could if required by Iraq stay in the country beyond the agreed withdrawal date of 31 December, 2011, the US defence secretary has said. Robert Gates, who is visiting Iraq, says an extended military presence is an option. "If folks here are going to want us to have a...

BBC News The offshore drilling firm responsible for running the Deepwater Horizon rig has given its top executives bonuses for its "best year" for safety. Transocean was blamed along with BP and Halliburton after last year's massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven workers, nine of...

BBC News A Libyan government envoy, Mohammed Ismail, has been in London in the past few days for talks with the British authorities, the BBC has learnt. The Foreign Office said that in all its contacts with Libyan officials, it had made it clear that "Gaddafi has to go". News of the...