Hurricane Ida's toll has risen to 12 storm deaths in Louisiana, still far outpaced by the dozens killed in flooded Northeast US states where President Joe Biden is heading next week to assess damage.
The United States has completed the withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan, the Pentagon says, after a chaotic evacuation of thousands of Americans and Afghan allies to close out US involvement there after 20 years of conflict.
US anti-missile defences have intercepted as many as five rockets fired at Kabul's airport, a US official says, as the United States rushes to complete its withdrawal from Afghanistan to end its longest war.
The European Union plans to recommend that its member states reinstate restrictions on tourists from the US because of rising coronavirus infection levels in the country, EU diplomats say.
Western forces running the Afghan airlift are bracing for more attacks after the United States launched a drone strike, apparently killing an Islamic State "planner", two days after the group claimed a deadly bombing outside Kabul airport.
US forces helping to evacuate Afghans desperate to flee Taliban rule are on alert for more attacks after at least one Islamic State suicide bomber killed 85 people including 13 US soldiers outside the gates of Kabul airport.
The US East Coast is bracing for a direct hit from Hurricane Henri as it threatens to pound the region with fierce winds and heavy rains that could cause "life-threatening" storm surge and flooding, the National Hurricane Centre says.
R.Kelly is a "predator" who demanded absolute fealty from the many women and underage girls he dominated in a two-decade racketeering scheme, a federal prosecutor has told the beginning of the R&B star's sex abuse trial.
Lawmakers in the New York Assembly will suspend their impeachment investigation of Governor Andrew Cuomo in light of his promise to step down from office over sexual harassment complaints, Speaker Carl Heastie says.
