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People celebrating US Pride events have expressed outrage at the Supreme Court's overturning of the constitutional right to abortion, and a wave of anti-transgender laws.

Tens of thousands of protesters have rallied across the US to call for stricter gun laws in the wake of mass shootings.

South Korea and the United States have fired eight surface-to-surface missiles off South Korea's east coast today in response to North Korea's short range ballistic missile launches on Sunday.

Mass shootings in Pennsylvania and Tennessee have killed at least six people and wounded more than 25.

Power Play - Ardern's visit to the White House was well overdue but comes at a time when New Zealand needs to be drawing clear battle lines between friend and foe.

A gunman who killed four people at an Oklahoma medical building before killing himself had gone there to kill a doctor who he blamed for back pain he felt after surgery, authorities say.

US President Joe Biden has warned China is "flirting with danger" over Taiwan, and vowed to intervene militarily to protect the island if it is attacked.

The severe shortage of baby formula in the United States could provide an opportunity for New Zealand exporters to test the waters there, but the window of opportunity will likely be short-lived.

A former US army commanding general says efforts to stop Russia's invasion can no longer be deterred by "exaggerated fears" of nuclear repercussions. Audio

A wind-driven Arizona wildfire almost tripled in area on Wednesday after burning dozens of structures and forcing thousands to flee their homes in a drought-hit rural area.

A US judge's ruling to end mask mandates on aeroplanes will be appealed if health officials say the mandates are necessary to slow Covid-19, the Biden administration says.

The Biden administration will no longer enforce a US mask mandate on public transportation, after a federal judge in Florida on Monday ruled that the 14-month-old directive was unlawful.

The US Supreme Court is to include a black female justice for the first time in its 233-year history after the Senate confirmed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to the nine-member bench.

Sarah Palin, the republican vice presidential nominee in 2008, has announced she will campaign for Alaska's only seat in the US House of Representatives.