Aide vows to ‘fight back’ against alleged attempts to delegitimise US president

Former heavyweight champion died of septic shock while in hospital with respiratory ailment

Religions and ideologies are at their best as part of a secular pluralist society

Film-maker Spike Lee and actor Jada Pinkett Smith say they will not attend this year's ‘lily white’ ceremony

Hollande tells 10,000 delegates “hope of all mankind” rests on their shoulders

Libertarian senator casts himself as political outsider to defeat ‘Washington machine’

Thousands take symbolic walk across Alabama bridge to mark 1965 march

Equal rights, voting rights and immigration rights all placed firmly in front of the cameras

This year’s nominations have no ethnic minority actors among all four acting categories

‘We can’t breathe,’ chant protesters as NYC choke-hold death puts justice in the dock

St Louis Rams players’ Michael Brown hand gesture sparks dispute with police

Few of Jacqueline Kennedy's letters have been published or sold at auction and fewer still have revealed much about her

Flights cancelled and homeless shelters overwhelmed as temperatures plummet

Marchers in Washington DC remember civil rights leader and call for 'new America'