Patty Culhane

Pom­peo’s speech for the Re­pub­li­can Na­tion­al Con­ven­tion from Jerusalem cre­at­ed con­tro­ver­sy.

De­mo­c­ra­t­ic vice pres­i­den­tial can­di­date is the first woman of colour to ap­pear on a ma­jor par­ty’s bal­lot.

De­spite ris­ing coro­n­avirus cas­es, many ed­u­ca­tors are bring­ing chil­dren back to the class­room rather than us­ing on­line tech­nol­o­gy.

As the US elec­tion ap­proach­es, Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump is not just fend­ing off at­tacks by mem­bers of the op­pos­ing par­ty, but also from his own.

A new re­port out of the Unit­ed States is paint­ing a pic­ture of wide­spread po­lice abuse in the days fol­low­ing the death of George Floyd.

As calls grow to de­fund po­lice across the Unit­ed States, New York City may­or pledges to move funds from the NYPD to youth ini­tia­tives and so­cial ser­vices.

The US city of Bal­ti­more is de­ploy­ing a con­tro­ver­sial method of sur­veil­lance that was de­vel­oped for use in Iraq.

In the Unit­ed States, its es­ti­mat­ed 200,000 restau­rants may not re­open due to bank­rupt­cy.

Emer­gency loan pro­gramme to help small com­pa­nies hit by coro­n­avirus curbs reach­es $349bn lim­it.

The pan­dem­ic has forced pro­cess­ing fac­to­ries to shut down and pro­duce goes to waste.