Cardi B, Jason Momoa and David Schwimmer are among the celebrities to have shared photos of themselves after casting their ballots in the US election. Polls are beginning to close in the contest between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

The US coronavirus caseload has reached record heights, with more than 83,000 infections reported in a single day.

The United States is approaching a record for the number of new daily coronavirus cases in the latest ominous sign about the disease’s grip on the nation.

Russian President Vladimir Putin made a strong call to save the last existing nuclear arms control pact between his country and the United States, proposing to extend it at least for one year.

The US death toll from the coronavirus topped 200,000 on Tuesday, by far the highest in the world.

China has sent more warplanes toward Taiwan for the second day as the island’s leader, senior government officials and a US envoy paid tribute to former president Lee Teng-hui.

China’s military sent 18 planes including fighter jets over the Taiwan Strait in an unusually large show of force on Friday as a US envoy held a day of closed-door meetings on the self-governing island claimed by China.

President Donald Trump has urged Iran not to execute a popular wrestler who authorities say killed a man during 2018 anti-government rallies.

US President Donald Trump’s chief Middle East adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner has trumpeted the recent agreement by Israel and the United Arab Emirates to establish diplomatic relations as a historic breakthrough.

China has announced unspecified sanctions against 11 US politicians and heads of organisations promoting democratic causes, including senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has dismissed President Donald Trump’s executive orders as “laughable” and another chapter in the federal government’s botched response to the coronavirus outbreak.

President Donald Trump has signed executive orders deferring payroll taxes for some Americans and extending unemployment benefits after negotiations on a new coronavirus rescue package collapsed.

President Donald Trump has issued a strong defence of the disproved use of hydroxychloroquine as a coronavirus treatment, hours after social media companies deleted videos he shared promoting its use which they saw as potentially harmful.

Negotiations over a new Covid-19 rescue bill for the US were in flux on Friday as Republicans butted heads with Democrats and with each other.

President Donald Trump has sought to paint a rosier picture of the coronavirus pandemic, but conceded the situation is likely to get worse for a time as he revived his daily briefings.

Donald Trump has acknowledged a “big flare up” of Covid-19 cases as the US crisis worsens and with emergency relief about to expire.

Leading Republicans were preparing to meet Donald Trump on Monday over the United States’ next Covid-19 aid package as the administration baulked at calls for more virus testing money and interjected other priorities that could complicate relief ...

A statement from the Chinese side late on Wednesday said that vice foreign minister Zheng Zeguang had summoned US ambassador Terry Branstad to protest recent US moves including a law to sanction officials who undermine local autonomy in Hong Kong.

China has summoned the US ambassador in Beijing to lodge a protest as it accuses Washington of interference over Hong Kong.

Top US infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci has described criticism by a White House adviser as “nonsense” and “a bit bizarre”.

President Donald Trump has threatened to withhold federal money if schools do not reopen in the autumn, and he lashed out at federal health officials over school reopening guidelines that he says are impractical and expensive.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered that face coverings must be worn in public across most of the state, a dramatic ramp up of the Republican’s efforts to control spiking numbers of confirmed coronavirus cases.

Dr Anthony Fauci has said coronavirus cases could grow to 100,000 a day in the US if Americans do not start following public health recommendations.

Officials estimate that 20 million Americans have been infected with the coronavirus since it first arrived in the United States.

A government watchdog says nearly 1. 1 million relief payments totalling some 1. 4 billion US dollars (£1. 1 billion) went to dead people in the government’s coronavirus aid programme.

Alarming surges in coronavirus cases across the US south and west have raised fears the outbreak is spiralling out of control.

That was the message from the hundreds of protesters who filled Daunt Square on Thursday, February 2, to show their solidarity with those affected by the controversial travel ban implemented against seven nations by the US in recent days.