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(AFP) - Nearly half of an elite US epidemiology program known as the "disease detectives" were dismissed by the Trump administration on Friday, according to sources familiar with the matter,...

(AFP) - The White House said Friday it was indefinitely blocking Associated Press journalists from Air Force One and the Oval Office, escalating a row with the US news agency...

Washington (AFP) - Faulty instruments and communication problems may have caused a passenger jet and army helicopter to collide in the worst US air disaster in two decades, flight safety...

(AFP) - A growing measles outbreak in west Texas has infected 48 people, according to official state data released Friday -- the latest sign that the once-vanquished childhood disease is...

Washington (AFP) - US retail sales plunged by the most in almost two years in January -- a bigger drop than forecast and one that follows an unexpected uptick in...

Washington (AFP) - US retail sales plunged by the most in almost two years last month as cold weather hit the country alongside wildfires in California, data showed Friday, reflecting...

Washington (AFP) - A federal judge has ordered a temporary lift on a freeze on funding to US aid and development programs ordered by President Donald Trump's administration, court documents...

Taipei (AFP) - Taiwan will boost investment in the United States and on its own defences, President Lai Ching-te said Friday, as Taipei seeks to head off US President Donald...

Washington (AFP) - The Associated Press said Thursday its reporter was barred from a White House event for the third day straight, in a mushrooming row over its refusal to...

Washington (AFP) - Two men convicted of murder, including one who spent more than 25 years on Death Row, were executed by lethal injection in the southern US states of...