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 US State Department has named a special envoy to press ahead with the president's plan to close Guantanamo military detention facility.
Ecuador would consider granting asylum to whistleblower Edward Snowden, the ex-CIA employee who single-handedly disclosed the US National Security Agency's PRISM mass-surveillance program.
Montreal's new mayor was arrested and charged with fraud on Monday in the latest blow to the reputation of one of Canada's biggest cities.
Wallenda is training for his untethered high wire walk across the Grand Canyon scheduled for June 23.
One person was killed and another injured in a shooting at a nightclub in Houston, US on Sunday.
The United States will not rush to war in Syria as it did in the past in the region, White House chief of staff Denis McDonough said on Sunday.
Information gleaned from two controversial data-collection programs run by the National Security Agency thwarted potential terrorist plots in the US and more than 20 other countries.
The United States remained ready to "directly" engage the Iranian government in order to solve the stalemate in nuclear talks diplomatically.
Several Internet companies have struck an agreement with the US government to release limited information about the number of surveillance requests they receive. Facebook: 9,000-10,000; Microsoft: 6,000 
'Yes we can' to 'Yes we scan'
Rupert Murdoch appears to be seeking a quiet divorce, based on the lawyer he has chosen and the absence of incendiary allegations.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday lowered its forecast of U.S. economic growth to 2. 7 percent next year, 0.3 percentage point lower than its April prediction against the backdrop of the government spending cuts.
The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched the organization's official WeChat account on Friday in a bid to boost the UN's social media presence in China, the Office of the UN Resident Coordinator in China announced.
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