(CNN) The ambush began with gunshots that killed five officers and sent screaming crowds scrambling for cover. It ended when a Dallas police bomb squad robot killed a gunman after negotiations failed.
Alton Sterling, a black man from Baton Rouge, was killed by police there this week in a case that reignited tensions over police violence toward the African-American community.
A law enforcement agent photographs the scene of a multiple shooting in Bristol, Tenn., on Thursday, July 7, 2016. Police say multiple people have been injured and one person was taken into custody after a man opened fire on motorists traveling along a ...
To honor the four Marines and one sailor killed in Chattanooga, Tennessee on Thursday, July 16, 2015, President Obama ordered flags to be flown at half-staff.
Ten additional states are suing the Obama administration to stop a directive that requires schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms aligned with their gender identity under the threat of losing federal funding, bringing the total number ...
Iraq's Prime Minister fired Baghdad's chief security officer Friday after the deadly weekend bombing that killed close to 300, and provoked criticism over the government's ability to prevent such attacks.
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 ...
ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan's legendary philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi, who devoted his life to the poor and the destitute, died on Friday at a hospital in Karachi following a prolonged illness.
TAMPA, Fla. A federal grand jury indicted U.S. Representative Corrine Brown of Florida and her chief of staff on fraud charges and other crimes, accusing them of funneling money for a bogus education charity to personal use, U.S.
Five police officers were killed and seven others were wounded this week by sniper fire in Dallas, in what has become the deadliest day for the nation's law enforcement officers since 9/11.
DALLAS - A 37-year-old Texas woman generally shied away from marches and rallies, but in the wake of two recent black men being fatally shot by police, Shetamia Taylor was “fed up” and took her four sons to the protest in downtown Dallas.
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.
(CNN) Hillary Clinton on Friday called for the nation to come together in the aftermath of an ambush that killed five police officers in Dallas, Texas, warning that this "absolutely horrific event" - coupled with a series of recent shootings involving ...
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.
We might not know who's running for governor in Indiana until more than a month from now. If Gov. Mike Pence becomes Donald Trump's running mate in the presidential race, the state Republican Party could take up to 30 days to select a replacement to ...
NEW YORK The benchmark S&P 500 stock index brushed against its record closing high on Friday as Wall Street rallied after a much-larger-than-expected jump in jobs growth confirmed the U.S.
A solid rebound in the U.S. labor market in June following a dismal May will ease worries at the Federal Reserve about the underlying health of the U.S.
Over 1,000 Wendy's Restaurants Infected with Malware. Wendy's admitted that 1,025 restaurant point-of-sale systems were infected with malware during a five-month-long data breach.
At their core, they represent an entirely new way of communicating with other individuals, businesses, and services - some of these customers using chatbots themselves.
You might be a pretty savvy Minecraft player, but are you as good at playing Minecraft as a computer? It sounds like a silly question to ask—who really cares about AI Minecraft skills, anyway—but you'd be surprised by the answer.
Sometimes, we here at Digital Trends have strong opinions. And when that time comes, we take to the internet and fight. For this debate, we're talking all about the new Pokémon Go game from Niantic Labs that's been sitting at the top of the app charts ...
In May, a Tesla TSLA 0.39 % “autopilot” enthusiast in Florida became the first known fatality in a self-driving car. But this was no ordinary accident.
Rappers and Los Angeles-area natives the Game and Snoop Dogg led a unification march for men of color Friday morning to the LAPD's graduation of its newest officers, hours after five Dallas police officers were shot and killed and seven others were ...
John Cho, who plays Hikaru Sulu in the current film franchise, told Australia's Herald Sun this week that the iconic character will be revealed to be in a same-sex relationship in the upcoming installment, Star Trek Beyond.
Great art has occasionally had the acuity to recognize that dogs are superior to humans. When Odysseus returned to Ithaca and disguised himself as a beggar, Argos recognized his owner even when his best friend, Eumaeus, couldn't.
WIMBLEDON, England - The Wimbledon men's singles final on Sunday afternoon will match a relative newcomer, Milos Raonic, against a veteran, Andy Murray.
With Dwyane Wade headed home to play for the Chicago Bulls, the Miami Heat on Friday continued working to fill out the rest of its roster, agreeing to a one-year, $5 million deal with former Knicks forward Derrick Williams.
In the wake of the recent police shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, and the ambush of police officers in Dallas, many NBA players took to social media to voice their outrage and frustration.
It was announced Friday that Bartolo Colon will replace Madison Bumgarner in the All-Star Game in San Diego. New York Mets manager and All-Star game manager Terry Collins had to pick a replacement for Bumgarner, who pitches for the San Francisco ...
The people responsible for measuring the world's time have got very good at determining just how long a second is supposed to last—the most accurate clock in the world uses cesium atoms to determine the exact length of a second, and it won't get out ...
WASHINGTON - A study of an experimental treatment for leukemia was abruptly halted this week following two patient deaths, raising questions about a closely-watched approach to cancer that involves reprogramming cells to seek and destroy the disease.
Silicon Valley startup Theranos Inc. is fighting for its life after regulators decided to revoke its license to operate a lab in California because of unsafe practices and to ban founder Elizabeth Holmes from the blood-testing business for at least two ...
An Evergreen Park water department employee drops a mosquito briquette into a catch basin near the corner of W 89th and Troy streets in preparation for mosquito season.
