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.
Two men were killed and a children injured Tuesday in a shooting in the US state of Louisiana, officials said.
A baby giraffe in Houston named after retired NBA star Yao Ming died after contracting infection, a local TV channel reported on April 19.
A court filing says charges have been dropped against a man in the state of Mississippi accused of sending ricin-laced letters to Obama and others.
The US government on Tuesday condemned a bomb attack on the French embassy in Libya, calling it a "direct attack on all Libyans".
US authorities are investigating a potential ricin attack at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington D.C., Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday.
The two men accused of plotting what is believed to be the first al Qaeda terrorist attack in Canada appeared separately in court in Toronto and Montreal for a bail hearing Tuesday.
Beijing and Washington reaffirmed their readiness to enhance military-to-military trust and expand areas of cooperation, as Xi met a top US military officer.
Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission Fan Changlong and Defense Minister Chang Wanquan met with Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey, respectively.
Newly elected Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday swore in his new cabinet, pledging to continue the Bolivarian Revolution.
Mourners crowded outside a Boston church for the first of a series of funerals for the victims of the marathon bombing.
A robot has discovered ancient chambers at the unexplored tunnel at Mexico's Teotihuacan archaeological site.
Canadian police said they had arrested and charged two men with plotting to derail a passenger train.