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.
Storms struck a rural area in the US state of Texas Thursday afternoon, leaving one woman dead and dozens of homes destroyed, local officials said.
Nearly three years after a deepwater well rupture killed 11 men, sank a rig and spewed 4 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, BP and the other companies involved are scheduled to face their judge in court.
US Vice-President Joe Biden, speaking 10 miles (16 km) from the site of the Connecticut elementary school massacre, argued on Thursday that public opinion had turned against the gun rights lobby.
After weeks without talks on the US budget crisis, President Barack Obama called Republican leaders on Thursday to discuss the harsh "sequestration" cuts to government spending due to begin in just over a week.
Ten life-sized Terracotta Warriors from China will be a central part of an exhibition in San Francisco that opens on Friday.
John Kerry used his first public speech as US secretary of state on Wednesday to urge US citizens to support diplomacy, saying that automatic cuts to the federal budget would hurt the country at home and abroad.
The US Department of Commerce on Wednesday announced its affirmative final determination in duty investigations against drawn stainless steel sinks from China.
NASA's Kepler mission scientists have discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a star similar to our sun.
Obama is looking for a new candidate to lead US and allied forces in Europe after his first choice John Allen bowed out on Tuesday.
Biden, who is spearheading a push for President Barack Obama's gun control proposals, dispensed this off-the-cuff tip for protecting life and property.
A college in the US state of Texas issued a Code Maroon alert and closed a stadium and adjacent facilities on Wednesday after receiving a bomb threat.
After spending the President's Day holiday weekend golfing with Tiger Woods in sunny Florida, US President Barack Obama was back in Washington on Tuesday morning discussing a matter of legislative urgency.
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