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Otto Warmbier's family blames "torturous mistreatment" by North Korea for the student's coma and death.

Sensitive personal details relating to almost 200 million US citizens have been accidentally exposed by a marketing firm contracted by the Republican National Committee.

A team of US doctors have found "no sign of botulism" in the American student freed by North Korea after more than 15 months in captivity.

A senior Republican is in a critical condition in hospital after a gunman opened fire during baseball practise in Virginia.

Four people are dead after a man believed to be an employee opened fire at a San Francisco parcel sorting facility, including the gunman.

The Trade Minister will be the first New Zealand minister to officially meet with a member of the Trump administration on Washington soil later this week.

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has denied having undisclosed meetings with Russian officials at a Washington DC hotel. Video

US comedian Bill Cosby's defence lawyers have rested their case after presenting a single, brief witness in his sexual assault trial.

The US territory of Puerto Rico has voted to ask Congress to make it America's 51st state.

A UK government spokesperson says the US president's state visit is still planned after reports he wanted to wait and avoid protests.

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he will appear before a Senate panel in response to James Comey's testimony.

The US President is expected to visit Miami as early as next Friday to announce a new Cuba policy that could tighten rules on trade and travel, eased by his predecessor Barack Obama.