Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney swept to the Republican presidential nomination in US on Tuesday night at a storm-delayed national convention, every mention of his name cheered by delegates

Tropical Storm Isaac lashed southern Florida Sunday and was expected to become a hurricane after forcing a one-day delay to the main events of the US Republican convention.

With winds reaching 65 mil

The State Department has launched a different sort of raid against al-Qaeda — hacking into al-Qaeda websites in Yemen.

In a rare public admission of the covert cyber war against extremists, Secretary

Marissa Alexander had never been arrested before she fired a bullet at a wall one day in 2010 to scare off her husband when she felt he was threatening her. Nobody got hurt, but this month a northeast

The FBI has opened a probe into trading losses at JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N), stepping up the pressure on the bank after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Reserve said they

Mitt Romney trounced main rival Newt Gingrich in Florida's Republican primary on Tuesday, putting himself in a commanding position to win the nomination to take on President Barack Obama in November,

Police in Tampa, Florida rolled out a tank as part of preparations to block an 'Occupy Tampa' rally.

An image on Twitter showed an armoured vehicle being prepped to meet the crowd in the city.

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