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 decades, scientists have been on the lookout for killer objects from outer space that could devastate the planet. But warnings that they lacked the tools to detect the most serious threats were largely ignored.
US President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Congress to stop the looming sequester that will lead to harmful automatic cuts, and that could threaten thousands of jobs and affect national security.
A federal judge in Washington on Friday dismissed most of the claims brought by a small Chinese firm against President Barack Obama for squashing its bid to build wind farms close to a naval training site.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is opening a glitzy "lifestyle destination" complex with an official basketball court, a hoop-themed restaurant and a children's zone.
Chinese-Canadian tourist Elisa Lam had been missing for about two weeks when officials at the historic Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles found her body in a water cistern on the hotel roof.
Despite unfamiliar regulations, cultural barriers and high operating costs, most Chinese companies doing business in the United States describe their experiences as successful and are optimistic about the future.
US President Barack Obama and visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday held their meeting on security and economic issues at the White House.
About 100 people were evacuated from a building at Texas A&M University on Friday after a bomb threat was received, school authorities said.
Two people were killed and a third critically injured as a medical helicopter crashed on Friday morning in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, local media reported.
US President Barack Obama said Friday that his country has deployed about 100 military personnel to the West African country of Niger.
Cuban President Raul Castro and visiting Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev held talks Thursday on strengthening the economic relations between the two countries.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday arrived in Washington D.C. for the meeting with US President Barack Obama scheduled for Friday at the White House.
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