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.
When the Philadelphia Orchestra performed in China in 1973, the musicians found the audience's enthusiasm muffled. Forty years later, they felt like they were performing for a crowd at a football game.
Maria Gabriela Chavez, daughter of former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, cries when the National Journalist Award is posthumously presented to her late father in Caracas.
A small NASA telescope was launched into orbit on Thursday on a mission to determine how the sun heats its atmosphere to millions of degrees.
Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was indicted by a federal grand jury on Thursday on charges of killing four people.
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa on Thursday defended his government's decision to consider the asylum request made by Edward Snowden.
NASA's long-lived Voyager 1 has found itself in a previously unknown region between the outermost part of the solar system and interstellar space.
The US National Security Agency for years collected masses of raw data on the email and Internet traffic of US citizens and residents, bringing to light another mass surveillance program that affected Americans.
The US Senate approved a landmark immigration bill that would provide millions of undocumented immigrants a chance to become citizens.
Huge crowds were cheering as US Supreme Court struck down a federal provision that denies legally married gay and lesbian couples the benefits enjoyed by other married couples.
Americans are still more likely to view Edward Snowden as a "patriot" than a "traitor," but public support for the former US spy agency contractor.
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday handed a significant victory to gay rights advocates by recognizing that married gay men and women are eligible for federal benefits and paving the way for same-sex marriage in California.
Ecuadorian President Wednesday refuted an editorial published in Washington Post criticizing his government's position on the case of Snowden.
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