US negotiator Christopher Hill has accepted an invitation to visit Pyongyang this week to discuss ways to salvage North Korea's nuclear disarmament process, the State Department said Monday.
Three Mile Island, the site of America's worst nuclear accident, will restart operations to provide power to Microsoft, US electricity company Constellation Energy announced Friday.
The White House said Monday there were no current plans for President Barack Obama to see Iran's new president at the UN next week, but did not definitively rule out a meeting.
The United States said Wednesday it planned more consultations with its partners after hearing China's perspective on reviving stalled six-party nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea.
Iran accused the United States Sunday of not taking the threat from Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria seriously, and charged that US aid had previously helped the jihadists.
The United States is now in the "end game" in Iraq but must move cautiously in drawing down its forces there despite a growing insurgency in Afghanistan, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday.
The tussle between China and Japan over ownership of islands in the East China Sea spilled over into America's newspapers on Friday, as the China Daily newspaper took out a double-page ad about the dispute.
US Navy helicopters on Tuesday buzzed a hijacked Ukrainian freighter carrying battle tanks and arms while talks were held with the pirates, who some reports said had fought among themselves.
The US Air Force came dramatically close to detonating a huge atomic bomb over North Carolina in 1961, according to a newly declassified document published by Britain's Guardian newspaper on Saturday.
In a court settlement described as "historic" by conservation groups, the US Navy has agreed to limit its use of sonar equipment and explosives that harm whales, dolphins and other marine mammals.
President Barack Obama said Tuesday it was important to work with Russia on a new generation missile shield, following his abandonment of an earlier US system that Moscow opposed, in Eastern Europe.
A defiant North Korea Sunday restated its demand for recognition as a "legitimate" nuclear-armed state, as world powers pondered ways to punish Pyongyang for its latest and largest atomic test.
The United States should take on a greater role in the global semiconductor industry for the sake of its economy and security, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday.
The US government said Friday it will work to curb the "overuse and abuse" of a mechanism allowing lower-value imports to enter the country duty-free, as concerns grow over Chinese shipments.
The US Commerce Department moved on Monday to ban the sale of connected vehicles incorporating Chinese and Russian technology, citing national security risks.
US officials were keeping a close eye on another hurricane in the Caribbean and a tropical storm that formed in the Atlantic, posing a potential threat after Hurricane Gustav battered the US Gulf Coast.
