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.
US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta on Wednesday notified the Congress that should automatic budget cuts be triggered on March 1, the Pentagon would be forced to furlough much of its civilian workforce.
A body found in a large water tank on top of a downtown Los Angeles hotel on Tuesday may belong to a 21-year-old Canadian woman who went missing under suspicious circumstances while staying there late last month.
A gunman killed three people on Tuesday in an attack at a home and three carjackings, before killing himself with a shotgun as officers closed in.
Oscar nominees who don't end up with a coveted gold statuette at the Academy Awards on Sunday won't go home empty handed after all.
Arms sales by the 100 biggest weapons makers fell in 2011 - the first time since the mid-90s - as economies slowed and military equipment purchases reduced.
As mechanized soybean farming increasingly encroaches on pasture land, Argentina's gauchos are under pressure and doggedly trying to keep alive the bombacha-making business.
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday met with General John Allen and accepted his request to retire from the military, which means the White House will not go ahead with the NATO nomination of Allen.
US Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Europe and the Middle East next week for his first foreign trip since taking over the reins at the State Department earlier the month, the Department announced Tuesday.
The US space agency NASA announced on Tuesday that flight controllers lost regular communication with the International Space Station (ISS) in the morning, but the station was fine and the crew was doing well.
US President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that the top priority for the nation is to bolster economic growth and create jobs for the middle class, warning that drastic government spending cuts will hurt US economic recovery.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said on Sunday that President Hugo Chavez has asked his diplomats to seek improved ties with the US.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made a surprise return from Cuba on Monday more than two months after surgery for cancer that has jeopardized his 14-year rule of the South American OPEC member.
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