More than 100 people at the US Embassy in Kabul have Covid-19, one person has died, and several have been medically evacuated as a wave of the deadly pandemic hits Afghanistan and the US military withdrawal from the country continues.

"We now have two recent Supreme Court decisions where institutions have asked for a constitutional right to discriminate: the Masterpiece cake case, and now the City of Philadelphia case. And in both cases, the court denied them that right."

President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act flanked by Vice President Kamala Harris and key lawmakers in the swift passage of the bill.

A top aide said Thursday that US President Joe Biden's first foreign trip showed G7 and NATO unity in pushing back on Beijing but that Biden was also ready to meet his counterpart Xi Jinping. Biden's view "also applies to China and President Xi Jinping....

Democratic Unionist Party leader Edwin Poots is stepping down as leader of Northern Ireland’s biggest political grouping after just three weeks amid a revolt that throws into question the future of Belfast’s power-sharing executive.