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 President Barack Obama pressed Congress on Saturday to find a balanced mix of spending cuts and tax reform, as they negotiated ways to cut deficit.
The mayor of Rio de Janeiro on Friday handed a symbolic key to the king of Carnivals in a ceremony marking the start of the city's most renowned festival this year.
A 7.2-magnitude quake jolted Santa Cruz Islands at 11:26 p.m. Friday (Beijing Time), following a quake of similar magnitude earlier this evening, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said Thursday that it has identified the origin of the Jan 7 battery fire at a Boeing 787 in Boston, indicating the 787 fleet may not resume flight any time soon.
US House Democrats on Thursday unveiled a set of 14 gun-control proposals broadly similar to the White House package after the December massacre of 20 schoolchildren in Newtown, Connecticut.
US First Lady Michelle Obama will attend the funeral service for a Chicago teen who was gunned down just days after performing inauguration festivities for President Barack Obama.
Some of the toughest questioning of John Brennan, President Barack Obama's nominee to head the CIA, may come from the president's fellow Democrats, not hostile Republicans, at his Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday.
Three young men died Wednesday as a sport utility vehicle carrying them and at least 10 other suspected illegal immigrants plunged into a stock tank during a police chase in Texas.
Standard and Poor's has hired John Keker, one of the country's top white-collar defense attorneys, to help fight a $5 billion lawsuit brought by the US government this week.
The US budget deficit will drop below $1 trillion this year for the first time during Barack Obama's presidency, the Congressional Budget Office said on Tuesday.
President Barack Obama has begun to reshape his Cabinet at the start of his second term, elevating several longtime advisers to key positions.
Obama's nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, John Brennan, is expected to face tough questioning when he appears at a Senate confirmation hearing.
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