DALLAS - Five Dallas police officers were killed and seven others wounded Thursday night when sniper fire turned a peaceful protest over recent police shootings into a scene of chaos and terror.
A brass band performed on North Foster Drive on Wednesday to protest the killing of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge. Credit William Widmer for The New York Times.
Authorities ordered the U.S. Capitol Building and Visitor Center into lockdown Friday morning after police spotted what they thought was a weapon inside an employee's backpack, according to the U.S.
WARSAW - President Obama signed a proclamation Friday lowering flags to half-staff at the White House and throughout the government in memory of the police officers killed in Dallas.
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NATO leaders have geared up for a long-term standoff with Russia, ordering multinational troops including 1,000 Americans to Poland and the Baltic states to help defend them and make Moscow rethink any plans for military intervention.
BAGHDAD - Iraq's prime minister fired three officials in charge of Baghdad's security Friday after last weekend's bombing that killed nearly 300 people and caused public outrage over the inadequacy of emergency services and the security apparatus.
KABUL - Gen. Joseph Votel, head of U.S. Central Command, arrived in Kabul Friday to meet with his commanders to discuss a “resurgent” Taliban two days after President Obama announced he would keep thousands of additional troops in Afghanistan ...
President Barack Obama's tenure in office will be defined in part by the unique challenge he has faced when it comes to confronting tensions that exist between law enforcement and communities of color.
After months of bargaining and backroom arguments, the Senate has voted in favor of a new national standard for labeling food that contains ingredients from genetically modified crops.
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Friday called for "determined action," not violence in the wake of the attack on police officers in Dallas, Texas last night.
Forget readiness to be commander-in-chief. If beauty were the top job requirement for Vice President of the United States, Sen. Bob Corker and Eric Trump have just the candidate for Donald Trump - his daughter Ivanka.
RICHMOND - Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Thursday unveiled a new voter-registration initiative that managed not to rankle Republicans - quite a feat for a swing-state governor with a buddy on the ballot in a presidential election year.
Washington (CNN) Hillary Clinton is spending a rare day away from the campaign trail and the fundraising circuit, arriving at her Washington home on Thursday to pore through reams of research about potential running mates before she begins a final ...
Remember how unexpectedly bad the May U.S. employment report was? With Friday's release of June employment data, it turns out the weakness was a fluke after all—and it looks like a big part of it was due to seasonal quirks related to the timing of the ...
Video conferencing equipment maker Polycom Inc said it agreed to be bought by a private equity firm for about $1.7 billion, scrapping a three-month old deal with Canada's Mitel Networks Corp.
Michigan consumers who might have picked up a Wendy's Frosty or a Dave's Triple in the past six months or so need to pay attention to news of yet another security breach involving credit cards.
Facebook Messenger wants to be your primary messaging app. As people become more and more concerned about security, being the best messaging app means being the most secure.
Mac OS X is so last year. This week, Apple released the macOS Sierra public beta to those who sign up to take part. There are a lot of new features, including Siri, picture in picture, and above all iOS 10 integration (like device-to-device clipboard ...
Microsoft has published the source code for its Project Malmo, allowing anyone to conduct artificial intelligence experiments in the world of Minecraft with a little programming.
During an interview posted Thursday, John Cho revealed his character Sulu is gay in the upcoming film Star Trek Beyond. While Cho praised the casual approach taken by the Star Trek Beyond team in showing Sulu's sexuality, original Sulu actor George ...
Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston have taken their romance here, there and pretty much everywhere, trotting across the globe to various locations and seemingly packing their new love in their luggage alongside their passports in place of any concern or ...
LONDON -- Roger Federer's bid for a record eighth Wimbledon title was cut short in the semifinals Friday by Milos Raonic, a big-serving Canadian who came from two-sets-to-one down to win in five and reach his first Grand Slam final.
Your teams. Your favorite writers. Wherever you want them. Personalize SI with our new App. Install on iOS or Android. Matt Harvey's already-frustrating season has gotten much worse.
When the NCAA last year meted out its sanctions against the SMU Mustangs, sanctions that included a postseason ban and suspension of head coach Larry Brown, I posed a simple question: What did the school expect when it hired Brown?
With the signing of Al Horford, which was officially announced on Friday, the Boston Celtics have already improved significantly since being eliminated by the Atlanta Hawks in the first round of the playoffs.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the Crab Nebula and its "beating heart," which is a neutron star at the right of the two bright stars in the center of this image.
U.S. Federal health regulators dealt a major blow to Theranos Inc., banning founder Elizabeth Holmes from operating a blood-testing laboratory for at least two years and yanking regulatory approval for its California lab.
Hi there. How's the training going? Feeling good about your chances for a podium finish or a personal best in Rio? I'm sure the last few weeks before a once-every-four-years competition must be a pressure-filled time.
SAN MATEO COUNTY -- Two dead birds tested positive for the West Nile virus on Wednesday in Redwood City and Atherton, the first time the disease has been detected this year in the county.
