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Adult-film star Stormy Daniels has filed a court motion for US President Donald Trump to testify about her claim that they had a relationship.

Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in student-led protests calling for tighter gun control across the United States.

US President Donald Trump has called for drug traffickers to face the death penalty as part of his plan to combat the country's painkiller-addiction epidemic.

The government will push for an exemption to newly-announced US tariffs on steel and aluminium, the Finance Minister says.

President Donald Trump will sign off on steep tariffs on steel and aluminium imports next week, hitting producers like China.

As students at the Florida school where 17 people were recently killed returned to classes, a major gun retailer has announced it will stop selling the kind of weapon used in the attack.

The head of the NRA has spoken a week after the Florida school shooting, with an unrepentant defence of gun rights and an aggressive attack on "political elites" calling for gun control.

Complaints by students who suffered decades of horrific abuse were ignored and key evidence destroyed, says their Honolulu lawyer.

United States president Donald Trump says he will look closely at the idea of secretly arming teachers and coaches in high schools so they can respond to school shootings quickly.

The US President has moved to ban the sale of bump stocks - devices designed to modify semi-automatic weapon so they can fire like an automatic one.

One of the survivors of the Florida high school massacre hid in a closet with classmates for three hours. He told Morning Report political inaction on gun control was unacceptable. Audio

Thirteen Russians have been charged with interfering in the US 2016 election, in a major development in the FBI investigation.

The US Congress ended a brief government shutdown by reaching a deal expected to push budget deficits into the $US1 trillion-a- year zone.

A foreign flagged longliner has run aground off the American Samoan village of Leone and the US Coast guard, Department of Public Safety and several other departments are investigating how it…

Two train workers are dead and 116 other people injured after a passenger train and freight train collided in the US state of South Carolina.

The Commissioner of Public Safety in American Samoa Le'i Sonny Thompson says the territory needs an alternative to detaining drug addicts.

A tsunami warning has been issued for the west coast of the US but has now been cancelled, and there is no threat to New Zealand.