The Latest Breaking News from America

According to a recent Pew Center report, American Christianity remains in a nearly three-decade decline. Responding as “none” or “unaffiliated” on religious surveys, people increasingly identify as humanists, atheists, agnostics, or simply spiritual. If current trends continue, by 2070 Christianity may no longer be the dominant expression of American religion.

The US' permanent security presence shows Australia binding itself more tightly to a collective security agreement with America.

Letters: Readers respond to Arwa Mahdawi’s account of navigating America’s healthcare system

The former US president accuses the Republican Party of engaging in culture wars instead of coming up with policies to help Americans who will vote on November 8, midway through Joe Biden's four-year term.

Of course Russia should be condemned for targeting civilians. But the brutal U.S. air war on Japan was much worse

Kevin McCarthy was weeks away from the biggest election of his life when he pulled up to Don’s Machine Shop in Pennsylvania. It was the sort of place campaign consultants crave, a factory with 35 workers founded in 1981 in a one-car garage with a milling machine and a lathe.…

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases filed against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that could profoundly alter the future of higher education in America. Petitioners will ask the court to overturn decades of precedent that have allowed…

In March this year the US Senate unanimously passed the Sunshine Protection Act - and if it gets through the House of Representatives it would make Daylight Saving Time permanent

This portrait has a conspiratorial intimacy that typifies the French photographer’s nuanced images