Restoring normal diplomatic relations offers an opportunity for the US and Cuba to engage on equal terms for the first time in their troubled history.
US President Barack Obama could have taken action but did not want to weaken the intelligence services.
The Senate report on CIA detention and interrogation found that detainees subjected to torture produced no intelligence or "fabricated information".
Police power and black lives are at opposite ends of a morally indefensible value system.
A ploy to soften up Russia and Iran might inflict collateral damage on its own shale industry.
China and the US will sign a deal that will ensure negotiations on targets for climate change are agreed on at next year’s climate talks in Paris.
During secret negotiations, the US pledged to cut its emissions by 28% by 2025 and China promised to reach a peak in emissions by 2030.
Midterm poll defeat will rattle presidential heir-apparent Hillary Clinton.
Dagga laws are loosening up in the United States, and campaigners believe this trend will continue.
Stinging remarks by US President Barack Obama’s officials have added fuel to the United States’s row with Israel.
Ebola should bring home to American conservatives that they are part of humanity.
Air strikes won’t solve anything in Iraq and Syria, where the West is the problem, not the solution.
Islamic militants released US journalist Peter Theo Curtis on Sunday, less than a week after grisly footage emerged of the execution of James Foley.
Protests in Ferguson, Missouri, have begun to abate after a white police officer shot dead an unarmed black teenager on August 9.
A union leader could be the next Chicago mayor, signalling a shift towards progressive politics.
Recent events show that international and humanitarian law are often no more than forms of convenient discourse for those at war.
Many Africans feel America is lagging behind China and others in its engagement with their continent.
Noam Chomsky states that if Israel is boycotted, the same fate should befall the United States. He further believes that a boycott could backfire.
Lionel Messi rescued Argentina once more to help sink Switzerland as the United States’s fairytale World Cup run came to an end against Belgium.
Georgia was always a Republican stronghold, but the Democrats’ base is growing fast.
The last US prisoner of war held in Afghanistan has been handed over to the US Special Operations in a dramatic swap for five Taliban detainees.
The last of the United States military forces will leave Afghanistan by the end of 2016, 15 years after the September 2001 attacks in New York.
A 22-year-old man – the son of a Hollywood director – killed six people before taking his own life.
Nigeria is wary of American aid, for fear the US military may gain a foothold in the country.
Nigeria has ruled out the release of Boko Haram fighters in exchange for the freedom of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the militants.
A Federal Reserve official said he expects the US economy to start picking up in the second quarter.
Before the 2016 presidential contest begins, the lesser-known competition for the Republican Party’s most influential donors is well under way.
Major industrialised nations have warned Moscow of tougher economic sanctions if it goes beyond the seizure of Crimea.
The US and its G7 allies will gather next week at the Hague to consider a further response to Russia’s attempt to absorb Ukraine’s Crimea region.
The US and EU have imposed sanctions, including asset freezes and travel bans, on a small group of officials from Russia and Ukraine.
Barack Obama’s ascent to power had meaning, but now his interventions are too rare and too piecemeal to constitute a narrative, writes Gary Younge.
The world’s top greenhouse gas emitters, China and the United States, have signed an agreement to work together to address climate change issues.