Republicans fear race in Trump-backing Florida may be slipping out of their grasp

Cesar Sayoc (56) has a long criminal history and could face up to 58 years in prison

Rescuer: ‘We’re going into recovery mode’, with 18 confirmed dead

Residents in affected areas told they had run out of time to evacuate and should hunker down

‘Monster’ storm ‘keeps getting more dangerous’ as it travels across Gulf of Mexico

Offshore oil and gas extraction poses a huge threat to the health of marine ecosystems

Nikki Haley tells UN moving embassy to Jerusalem does not undermine prospects for peace

‘Accelerated bridge construction’ method was supposed to reduce risks to workers and pedestrians

Nikolas Cruz’s lawyer says he will plead guilty to killing 17 in return for life sentence

Marjory Stoneman Douglas students have touched a political nerve across the country

Survivors of Florida shooting joined by pupils around country in calls for change

FBI confirms it had been warned about postings on social media last year

Suspect in custody and thousands of students evacuated from school after attack

‘We’re going to get corporate tax down to a very competitive level,’ says treasury secretary

Hurricane downgraded to tropical storm but millions of people remain without power

Three reportedly killed as 480km-wide storm makes landfall in United States

Hundreds of thousands of residents, including many elderly people, leave US state

Gunman arrested and eight wounded; attack sends panicked passengers running onto tarmac

President-elect runs rule over aides and contenders for top posts over the weekend

Storm triggers mass evacuations along US coast from Florida to North Carolina

Cuba and Haiti hit with 225km/hr winds, destroying villages and flattening homes

FF and FF level in new poll; plan to build 50,000 social houses; Hurricane to hit Florida

At least four killed in Dominican Republic, two in Haiti as Florida declares emergency

Cuba prepares for hurricane ‘twice as powerful’ as Hurricane Sandy

Hundreds of thousands left without power as potentially lethal storm lands in USA

US state prepares for the ‘life-threatening’ hurricane, its first in more than a decade

Police say no evidence attack by Norwegian man of Somali origin was terror-related

Florida department of health says four reported cases of virus may be mosquito-borne

President visits Orlando to help console families of victims of gay nightclub shootings

Main takeaways from presidential battle which saw gains for Trump and Clinton

Governor Rick Scott says Caribbean storm ‘poses a severe threat’ to US peninsula

Barack Obama’s presidency has been stymied by his consistent inability to work with Republicans. If he wants to make a difference in his final two years, he must learn to make deals – fast

Obama and Democrats suffer heavy defeats as GOP rule Congress for first time in eight years

Billionaire hedge fund founder Tom Steyer is natural arch-nemesis to Koch brothers

Concerns raised after news that nurse with the disease took commercial flight

Tom Steyer offers to support US candidates who work to combat climate change