In April, Washington's city council unanimously approved the first reading of a bill that would inaugurate Swann Street near the Dupont Circle neighbourhood of the US capital. The bill honours William Dorsey Swann. Born in 1860, he was the first known person to dub himself a drag queen.

The suspect reportedly shot his neighbors after he was accused of firing a gun in his yard. The arrest ends a mass search operation that involved more than 250 law enforcement personnel.

The US Federal Trade Commission has unveiled a proposal that would bar social media giant Meta from profiting off the personal data collected from child users. The FTC is accusing Facebook and Instagram's parent company of repeated violations of data privacy policies.

The US Federal Reserve has raised its benchmark lending rate by another 0.25% as it seeks to tame inflation. But it also signaled it was mulling pausing the recent trend of regular increases, possibly as soon as June.

Jurors have convicted four members of the far-right Proud Boys of seditious conspiracy for their role in the 2021 attack on the US Capitol.

Foreign ministers from both Caucasus countries met for peace talks in the United States. Russia said any new agreement must build upon the peace deal it negotiated in 2020, which failed to stop further clashes.

For nearly 25 years, the German Economy Ministry helped organize — and partially finance — a stand for German companies at one of the world's biggest gun shows in Las Vegas, according to a new investigative report.

The US president will be speaking with Democratic and Republican congressional leaders at the White House on Tuesday to discuss raising the debt ceiling. We take a closer look at the potential consequences of the US defaulting on its debt.

The US government could start to run out of money if Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling by the end of the month. DW looks at the wider impact of a debt default.

The son of the Mexican drug kingpin is the latest Sinaloa cartel figure to be sanctioned in the US. He is accused of trafficking the deadly drug into the US with the help of Chinese companies.

As a deadline looms on raising the US government's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, President Joe Biden began talks with congressional leaders at the White House on Tuesday. Republicans are seeking concessions from the Biden administration to lift the borrowing limit, but the White House has said there should be no negotiations. Officials have warned that the US could default on its debt by as soon as June 1.

The US announced new measures to replace the Trump-era "Title 42" immigration policy. Border authorities are expecting an increase in migrants seeking to enter the US.