DALLAS - At least one sniper, who said he wanted to shoot white police officers, killed five officers and wounded seven others in a coordinated ambush at a demonstration in Dallas on Thursday night against police shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana, ...
Police lifted a lockdown Friday morning at the U.S. Capitol Building that had required visitors and staff to shelter in place for about 40 minutes, according to authorities.
WARSAW, Poland - The Latest on the NATO summit (all times local): 4:05 p.m.. A senior NATO official says that some allies may increase the number of troops they have in Afghanistan, providing a total to maintain all current missions.
Following the killing of at least five police officers in Dallas overnight, a former one-term congressman from Illinois ignited a firestorm with a now-deleted tweet threatening President Obama with “war” and warning Black Lives Matter demonstrators to ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Following a fatal police shooting in a quiet suburb that rapidly rippled across the nation, Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton said in no uncertain terms that Philando Castile ended up dead during a traffic stop at least in part because he ...
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.
President Xi Jinping of China and President Park Geun-hye of South Korea in Beijing in 2013. Credit Pool photo by Wang Zhao. BEIJING - However isolated North Korea may be, it has long had one major ally: China.
BAGHDAD - At least 40 people were killed in a suicide bombing at a Shiite shrine north of Baghdad, medical officials said Friday, the latest attack claimed by Islamic State militants.
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 ...
An aerial photo taken though the window of a Philippine military plane shows the alleged ongoing land reclamation by China of an island in the South China Sea, west of Palawan, Philippines, on May 11, 2015.
(CNN) Brent Thompson, a Dallas Area Rapid Transit officer killed during unrest overnight in Dallas, was the first officer killed in that agency's line of duty.
WASHINGTON - The Latest on developments in the presidential campaign (all times local): 10:15 a.m.. Donald Trump says he won't stand for it if it turns out some of his hats labelled “Made in USA” actually weren't made in the USA.
AUSTIN - The murder of a woman and her unborn child in Idaho is making a huge impact in Austin. Jennifer Nalley, 39, was one of the founders of a history-making roller derby group in Texas, a teacher, friend and daughter who changed hundreds of people ...
Downed power lines lay on the ground as a tornado damaged hundreds of structures on Thursday, July 7, 2016 in Eureka, Kan. The National Weather Service confirmed that at about 10 p.m.
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 ...
Washington (CNN) Donald Trump came to Capitol Hill Thursday with the hopes of unifying the party, but his heated exchange with one of his fiercest congressional critics overshadowed those efforts.
Having voted to leave the European Union, Britain's financial markets and outlook are becoming more, not less, European. The pound and British bank stocks have plummeted, government bond yields have sunk, political uncertainty is unnerving investors ...
NEW YORK U.S. employers added 287,000 jobs in June, a surprisingly strong showing. The unemployment rate nonetheless rose to 4.9 percent from May's 4.7 percent level as the labor participation rate rose.
(RTTNews.com) - Wall Street mood has turned circumspect on Thursday, as indicated by the trading in the index futures, which are currently narrowly mixed.
... * Consumer confidence tumbles in Britain. * John Lewis says post Brexit currency shift 'a big issue'. * Moody's says Brexit could threaten existence of EU.
Need more security in your Facebook messaging, but not willing to switch to a security-oriented service such as Telegram? We've got good news: Facebook is testing a far more secure type of Messenger conversation, with several interesting features.
And just like that, Hiddleswift is down under! As we previously reported, Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston briefly landed at LAX on Wednesday before catching another flight to Sydney, Australia and then Queensland.
A magical night! Emma Watson came face-to-face with Noma Dumezweni, the actress who plays Hermione Granger in the upcoming London play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, on Thursday, July 7.
Trevor Noah addressed the police shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile on Thursday night's episode of The Daily Show, railing against the notion that the discussion around their deaths needs to be so divided.
Jaden Smith turns 18 today, but this young man adopted his game-changing ways years ago. The multifaceted star is unabashedly inquisitive, having championed many different causes and tried out a few careers while he was growing up.
SMU coach Larry Brown is resigning as coach, he told ESPN's Andy Katz on Friday. Asked by Katz why he is resigning, Brown did not offer details, saying he first wanted to discuss his decision with his players and their parents.
NEW YORK - Nationals Manager Dusty Baker was frustrated. Outfielder Jayson Werth was frustrated. Still chipper, still polite Daniel Murphy used the word “confused” to sum up his feelings about the ninth inning call on Werth's slide that ended a would ...
The After Dark panel discuss France's victory over Germany to progress to the Euro 2016 final. The After Dark panel discuss France's victory over Germany to progress to the Euro 2016 final.
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.
Scientists have designed a robotic stingray that could help our understanding of the human heart. The miniature robot, one-tenth the scale of the actual fish, moves using heart cells taken from a rat.
This image illustrates how supermassive black holes at the center of galaxy clusters could heat intergalactic gas, preventing it from cooling and forming stars.
Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and chief executive of Theranos, has seen her personal wealth fall from $4.5 billion to zero. Credit Brendan McDermid/Reuters.
(Adds details on FDA staff findings). July 8 Amgen Inc's biosimilar form of AbbVie Inc's Humira arthritis drug, the world's top-selling medicine, is similarly potent and safe as the original product, according to a preliminary review by staff members ...
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.
