Outgoing United States president Joe Biden has warned ‘an oligarchy is taking shape in America’. What is an oligarchy? And is America becoming one?

For more than 100 years, the US did not inaugurate its president until March - a four month wait for the official handing over of power. That changed in 1933 during the Great Depression economic crisis, when Inauguration Day moved from 4 March 4 to 20 January - with the ratification of the 20th amendment to the US Constitution.

Democratic states' attorneys general launched a legal bid this week to defend Biden administration policies on immigration, the environment and guns, just days before Donald Trump takes office on Monday.

Follow live coverage from Washington DC as Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th President of the United States

The Republican-led states of Idaho, Missouri and Kansas can proceed with a lawsuit seeking to restrict the availability of the abortion pill mifepristone in the United States, a federal judge in Texas ruled on Thursday.

In the coming months, the United States (US) is set to make a solid push for the 2031 FIFA Women's World Cup in conjunction with Mexico. Currently, the United States Soccer Federation president, Cindy Parlow Cone,

According to information from the annual study by a data analytics company called dunnhumby, consumer preference in supermarkets across the United States leans towards a chain that

Although the U.S. flag is at half-staff to mark the death of President Jimmy Carter, 8 Republican-led states will raise flags for Trump's inauguration

Our alliances are stronger. Our adversaries and competitors are weaker. We have not gone to war to make these things happen," said President Biden.

After a year of driving through 49 states, here is the best spot in each region of the US from the South's Everglades to the Midwest's Pictured Rocks.

Flags have been flying at half staff to mourn Jimmy Carter for 30 days. One state has ordered that flags be raised to full staff for inauguration day.

"In the Shadow of Giants" by Nicolò Rinaldi portrays the contradictions lying at the heart of the USA, analysing what remains of the American Dream.