Then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed concerns to at least one person that President Donald Trump would enter into a foreign conflict to try and stay in office after losing the 2020 election, according to the Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender's new book, "Frankly We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost."
Former President Donald Trump said he regretted not "immediately" deploying the military into US cities to quash unrest last summer.
In the US state of Oregon, the nation's largest active wildfire has burned through more than 300,000 acres, prompting thousands of evacuations.
More than 130 wildfires - fuelled by lightning strikes - are burning across western Canada following a record-breaking heatwave.
Donald H. Rumsfeld, the secretary of defense for Presidents Gerald R. Ford and George W. Bush, who presided over America’s Cold War strategies in the 1970s and, in the new world of terrorism decades later, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, died on Tuesday at his home in Taos, N.M. He was 88.
Dozens of people have died in Canada amid an unprecedented heatwave that has smashed temperature records.
The US has launched air strikes against an Iran-backed militia in Iraq and Syria, the Pentagon announced.
Kamala Harris has made her first trip as vice-president to the nation's southern border as the White House grapples with political pressure over a growing migrant crisis.
The US white ex-police officer convicted of murdering African-American man George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020 has been sentenced to 22 years and six months in jail.
Rescuers are desperately searching for any survivors trapped in the rubble of a collapsed 12-storey residential building north of Miami.
Russia's unmanned Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon after spinning out of control, officials say.
Donald Trump has confirmed that he will not take part in Republican presidential debates with his rivals in the race for the White House.