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 nonfarm payroll grew by 236,000 in February, and the unemployment rate edged down 0.2 of a percentage point to 7.7 percent, the Labor Department reported Friday.
A son-in-law of Osama bin Laden faces arraignment on Friday in a federal court in New York, where he is charged with conspiracy to kill Americans.
The coroner's office says a lion used its paw to lift a partially closed door and escape a smaller cage before attacking and killing a 24-year-old woman cleaning a larger enclosure.
The administrator of the UN Development Programme called for scaled-up global efforts to stop violence against women, which she said is a weapon of war in much of the world.
The US Senate on Thursday confirmed John Brennan as the Obama administration's next Central Intelligence Agency director.
Venezuelan Acting President Nicolas Maduro said that the body of Hugo Chavez will be embalmed and displayed in the Museum of the Revolution so that "people can see forever."
Growing diversity of energy reserves worldwide, while greatly increasing supplies, poses new challenges to the energy industry, top officer of British oil giant BP said Wednesday.
Thousands of residents in Southern California Wednesday urged US Congresswoman Judy Chu to vote against any cuts to social security, medicare, or medicaid benefits.
The coffin of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was transferred from hospital to the chapel of Military Academy on Wednesday night for a wake, after more than six hours of parade in Caracas.
A female intern-volunteer was killed Wednesday by a lion at a private wild animal park in Central California, and state and local authorities were trying to determine what might have caused the fatal attack.
President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, who visited China six times, was remembered in Beijing on Wednesday as "strong and vibrant" and a "good friend" of the Chinese people.
US President Barack Obama is reaching out to Congressional Republicans and is to meet with them later Wednesday as well as next week, according to the White House.
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