More US news in brief

President Joe Biden's approval rating has dipped slightly to 38%, nearing the 36% low point recorded in July 2022.

More than 3,600 incidents against Jewish people were recorded in the US last year, more than any year since tracking began in 1979.

US gains in the early identification of children with autism were largely wiped out by diagnosis disruptions in the early months of the coronavirus crisis.

The US President celebrated the 13th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, an expansion of government-subsidised health insurance.

Half a million pupils in the nation's second-largest school system will miss out on a daily education due to the strike, which was called following stalled contract talks.

A Republican representative told Secretary of State Antony Blinken he would subpoena if the department does not produce documents on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Health regulators are close to deciding on whether to authorise a second dose of the new Covid vaccine boosters for high-risk people and the elderly, The Wall Street Journal reported.

A former staffer says she was coerced by company lawyers to give misleading testimony in Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion lawsuit over the network's false claims of election fraud.

Retired officer Larry Brock, who stormed the US Capitol in combat gear and carried zip-tie handcuffs into the Senate gallery, was sentenced to two years in jail.

The Environmental Protection Agency said states must not block shipments of waste from the Ohio train derailment to hazardous waste storage sites across the nation.