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No fingerprints or DNA turned up on the bag of cocaine found in a lobby at the White House last week despite a sophisticated FBI crime lab analysis.

It comes as Ukrainian forces have struggled to make major gains in their counteroffensive against Russia.

The revelation comes after indents were visible on the president's face as he departed the White House.

US President Joe Biden has been caught on camera in another awkward pronunciation blunder, mistakenly referring to the "war in Iraq" instead of Ukraine.

The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security downplayed or ignored "a massive amount of intelligence information" ahead of the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, according to the chairman of a Senate panel that overnight released a new report on the intelligence failures ahead of the insurrection.

US intelligence officials believe that Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the private Wagner military group, had been planning a major challenge to Russia's military leadership for quite some time.

The deal ends a long-running Justice Department investigation into Biden's second son, who has acknowledged struggling with addiction following the 2015 death of his brother Beau Biden.

The near collision between US and Chinese naval vessels in the Taiwan Strait highlighted the dangers of a military miscalculation in a dispute that stretches back decades.

Joe Biden celebrated a “crisis averted" in his first speech to the nation from the Oval Office.

The White House insisted the 80-year-old president was fine after a mishap at the US Air Force Academy.

Fending off a default, the US Senate has given final approval to a debt ceiling and budget cuts package.

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has told Congress that the U.S. could default on its debt obligations by June 5 — four days later than previously estimated — if lawmakers do not act in time to raise the federal debt ceiling.

The 19-year-old said he aimed to "kill the President" if necessary to overthrow the government and install himself in power, according to court documents.

Albanese has met with Biden on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Japan as the two leaders signed a new climate and clean energy agreement, as the US President apologised to the Aussie PM for cancelling his Sydney visit.

It comes as leaders of the world's most powerful democracies worked to toughen punishments on Russia for its 15-month invasion of Ukraine.

The Quad leaders meeting in Sydney next week has been cancelled after US President Joe Biden pulled out of the event.

During a tense CNN town hall, the former dug in on his lies about the 2020 election, downplayed the violence on January 6, and repeatedly insulted a woman who accused him of sexual assault.

In January, the US government ran up against its legal borrowing limit of $31.381 trillion, and the Treasury Department began implementing "extraordinary measures" to avoid missing payments on its bills.

His karoake-style rendition of the classic song delighted host US President Joe Biden.

Biden, who would be 86 at the end of a second term, is betting his first-term legislative achievements and more than 50 years of experience in Washington will count for more than concerns over his age.

The summit will be an opportunity to showcase Australia, the prime minister said.

From a relaxing European river cruise to the eleventh-hour negotiations behind the most high-profile defamation lawsuit in years.

The voting machine company said the settlement represented "vindication".

President Joe Biden arrives in Belfast to celebrate the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

The oldest ever US president says he wants to run again next year, at the age of 81.

New York City has bolstered security and warned potential agitators it is "not a playground for your misplaced anger".

The US government still does not know for sure whether the Chinese government could wipe the balloon's data as it received it.

Before Biden's staff could even start planning a call with the Chinese president, Xi announced plans to travel to Russia.

The Chinese Defence Ministry lashed out at "typical Cold War mentality" after leaders announced the largest military spend in Australian history.

The US President has stressed Australia's new submarine fleet will be "nuclear powered, not nuclear armed".

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will announce the choice of Australia's nuclear-powered vessel when he visits the US next week.

A skin lesion removed from President Joe Biden's chest last month was a basal cell carcinoma — a common form of skin cancer.

The UN chief's comments came as the war pushed further into its second year with no end in sight and tens of thousands dead.

US officials have warned their Chinese counterparts privately about what consequences will come if they help Russia with lethal aid.

US President Joe Biden slammed Putin's decision and gave an ironclad promise to Russian neighbours worried they're next.

US officials believe the trial of the long range weapon ended in failure.

US President Joe Biden marked a year since Russia's invasion of Ukraine by celebrating the strength and resilience of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his people.

Putin declared Moscow is suspending its participation in the last remaining key nuclear arms control pact with the US - sharply upping the ante amid tensions with Washington over fighting in Ukraine.

Cloaked in secrecy and weighted with history, Biden's trip was the work of months of planning.

"One year later, Kyiv stands. And Ukraine stands. Democracy stands," Biden said.

US President Joe Biden has said that the US has no indication the three objects shot down in North American air space are tied to China's spy balloon program.

For the third time this week a high-altitude object has been downed over the Americas. Here's what we know about the latest incident.

The US Commerce Department is restricting six Chinese companies tied to the Chinese army's aerospace programs from obtaining US technology without government authorisation.

An unidentified object was shot down 16km off the frozen coast of Alaska on Friday afternoon, US officials announced, but details about the object are scarce.

The FBI discovered an additional document with classified markings at Mike Pence ’s Indiana home during a search, following the discovery by his lawyers last month of sensitive government documents there.

The Pentagon has shot down an unknown object flying in U.S. airspace off the coast of Alaska on orders from President Joe Biden, White House officials said.

Within hours of an Air Force F-22 downing a giant Chinese balloon that had crossed the United States, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin reached out to his Chinese counterpart via a special crisis line, aiming for a quick general-to-general talk that could explain things and ease tensions.

The Biden administration has determined the Chinese surveillance balloon that traversed the US was operating with electronic surveillance technology capable of monitoring communications.

US President Joe Biden has been jeered and heckled by Republicans as he gave his State of the Union address.

At least one top official won't be at the Capitol for the State of the Union today.