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.
A wind-driven brush fire raging northwest of Los Angeles prompted the evacuation of hundreds of homes and a university campus on Thursday as flames engulfed several farm buildings and recreational vehicles at the fringe of threatened neighborhoods.
The spinning vortex of Saturn's north polar storm resembles a rose surrounded by green foliage in this false-color handout image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken Nov 27, 2012.
US President Barack Obama arrived in Mexico City Thursday aboard the official presidential airplane Air Force One, for an overnight work visit.
Police guard outside the Terminal B at the Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, the United States, May 2, 2013.
In Kentucky, where some children get their first guns even before they start first grade, Stephanie Sparks was cleaning the kitchen as her 5-year-old son played with the small rifle he was given last year.
A delegation of 40 dignitaries from the United States led by a grandson of Richard Nixon arrived in Beijing on Thursday to retrace the 37th US president's 1972 visit to China.
Local police in Houston, a city in the US state of Texas, confirmed an armed man shot and killed himself at the city's Bush Intercontinental Airport Thursday afternoon.
The US State Department on Thursday urged the DPRK to immediately release a US citizen who was sentenced to 15 years of compulsory labor by its court.
The US insisted Wednesday it maintains a neutral stance on the sovereignty of the Diaoyu Islands, following a warning from the Chinese ambassador.
US President Barack Obama on Thursday nominated Michael Froman, a top economic adviser, as the next US Trade Representative.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreed Wednesday to provide $932 million in a four-year loan package for Jamaica to revive the country's shaky economy.
The largest Native American tribe in the United States is seeking to dub the classic 1977 movie "Star Wars" movie in Navajo as a way to help preserve its traditional language.
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