A U.S. House of Representatives committee has obtained access to Donald Trump's tax returns, following a years-long court fight with the Republican former president.

A new set of polls finds that an overwhelming majority of people in the United States believe the nation is headed in the wrong direction.

US Capitol Police (USCP) have arrested two people for the destruction of property during protests at the Supreme Court in the wake of the decision to overturn abortion rights.

US President Joe Biden has signed into law the first major gun safety legislation passed by Congress in three decades.

The US Supreme Court has ruled that Americans have a fundamental right to carry handguns in public, despite a surge in gun violence across the country.

Thousands of people across the US poured into the streets on Tuesday in protest against a potential rollback of abortion rights by the nation's top court by overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling.

A person set themselves on fire outside the US Supreme Court on Friday, a spokeswoman said -- the second incident to raise alarm near the Capitol in Washington in a week.