A Yahoo transparency report released Thursday showed that the United States topped the list of countries demanding information about users in the first half of this year.
The US government has spent more than one billion dollars on private sector renewable energy projects from the massive economic stimulus program passed seven months ago, officials said Tuesday.
In a move sure to enrage Tehran, the US is poised to remove an Iranian opposition group, the People's Mujahedeen of Iran, from its terror blacklist, US lawmakers said Friday.
The rise of the brutal Islamic State group can partly be blamed on President Barack Obama's failure to arm moderate Syrian rebels far earlier, said former US defense secretary Leon Panetta.
The Pentagon notified the US Congress on Thursday of a proposed contract with Japan worth nearly $1 billion to upgrade the country's early warning radar aircraft.
A series of political transitions led by the Arab Spring uprisings are shifting the balance of world power with the United States set to play a less dominant role, a leading think-tank argued Thursday.
Washington and Tokyo have agreed to deploy another missile defence radar in Japan, to counter the threat from North Korea, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Monday.
The United States is set to remain in the UN postal agency after member states on Wednesday decided to reform rules that Washington claimed unfairly benefit China.
The US Defense Department has notified Congress of plans to sell 1,000 bunker-buster bombs to Israel in a deal worth 77 million dollars.
The United States will send about 600 extra troops to Iraq to train local forces for an offensive on the Islamic State group stronghold of Mosul, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Wednesday.
The US military will send a field hospital to Liberia for medical staff fighting the Ebola virus, the Pentagon said Monday, as part of an expanded effort to stem the epidemic.
The United States announced Thursday the deployment of 200 troops as well as Patriot missiles to Saudi Arabia to help the country's defense in the wake of last month's attacks on oil installations blamed on Iran.
US Secretary of State John Kerry will sign the first global treaty to regulate the $80 billion annual trade in conventional arms, a US official said Tuesday.
The United States is "very close" to sealing a deal to sell 18 F-16 fighter jets to Iraq, a top Pentagon official announced Wednesday.
The US will press fellow G20 economies this week to act to boost world growth, and urge China to better communicate its policies, a senior Treasury official said Tuesday.
US President Joe Biden will use this week's inaugural technology ministerial with the European Union to push for solutions to the nagging semiconductor supply issue that has hit the American economy, officials said Monday.
