UC Santa Barbara students attend a candlelight vigil following Friday's series of drive-by shootings that left 7 people dead in the Isla Vista section of Santa Barbara May 24, 2014.
The Obama administration Wednesday declassified three documents to give broad details to the National Security Agency's phone surveillance program.
The US West Coast unveiled its first public memorial to World War II-era "comfort women", in Glendale, California, on Tuesday.
People ride the 'Vertigo' ride as the sun sets at the Cattaraugus County Fair in Little Valley, New York July 30, 2013.
A woman was arrested Monday after green paint was found splattered inside two chapels at the Washington National Cathedral.
Eight people, including three children, were injured after an explosion that leveled houses in South Philadelphia in the US, July 29, 2013.
Former US president Jimmy Carter is planning to visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea soon to try to win the release of a US citizen held for committing crimes against the state.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced on Monday 105 children involved in sex trafficking and exploitation have been recovered in 76 cities across the United States over the weekend.
A helicopter crash in a rugged, wooded area of Pennsylvania claimed the lives of five people, including one child, officials said Sunday.
Russian military inspectors will carry out inspection flights on Sunday over the United States under an international treaty on open skies.
Relatives of three Chinese teenager girls, who were killed in an Asiana airliner crash three weeks ago, left for home on Saturday.
The United States has made a formal promise to Russia not to execute or torture Edward Snowden if he is sent home to face charges of illegally disclosing government secrets.
U.S. intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden, who has been in a Moscow airport's transit zone for more than a month, could be stuck there for another half a year, a migration official said Friday.