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.
For years Anita Zhang's neighbors joked that if a tornado ever bore down her Chinese restaurant, folks could take refuge in its roomy walk-in freezer.
US Attorney on Wednesday formally admitted the killing of four American citizens in drone strikes since 2009.
A rash of US government scandals have prompted a flurry of unanswered questions over what White House officials knew and when they knew it.
President Barack Obama will lay out the rationale for US drone strikes in a speech on Thursday.
A Chechen immigrant who was being questioned about his possible links to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was killed.
Supporters are hoping that the smooth passage of their legislation through a Senate committee will boost the likelihood of the bill winning full Senate approval.
At least nine soldiers were killed in an attack by the National Liberation Army (ELN), the second largest guerrilla group in Colombia, the country's military said Wednesday.
Rescuers went building to building in search of victims and thousands of survivors were homeless on Tuesday, a day after a massive tornado tore through a suburb of Oklahoma City.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved far-reaching immigration legislation that gives a chance at citizenship to millions living in the country illegally.
An 18-foot, 8-inch Burmese python set a record for the longest snake ever captured in South Florida, where the exotic species has taken up residence.
Last week saw Americans express more confidence in the US economy than in any week since Gallup started tracking daily economic confidence in 2008.
Wall Street bounced back after Monday's slip, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Standard & Poor's 500-stock Index closing at record highs.
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