(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.
Five police officers were fatally shot and seven others wounded Thursday when snipers opened fire in downtown Dallas during a protest over recent police shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana, police said.
In a week of rising tensions following police shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota, cops in Tennessee, Missouri and Georgia were targeted in a string of separate attacks against police, law-enforcement authorities said.
The man believed to be responsible for a series of shootings in Bristol, Tennessee, on Thursday may have been motivated by "recent incidents involving African-Americans and law enforcement officers in other parts of the country," according to the ...
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.
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.
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 ...
Washington (CNN) Black lawmakers delivered an emotional and sometimes searing plea for gun control Friday in response to the Dallas killings, calling the suspected gunman a "terrorist" and openly weeping at times as they railed against gun violence.
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 ...
(Lennie Mahler | The Salt Lake Tribune) Emergency crews respond to a 5-alarm fire at a commercial scrap yard in Salt Lake City on Friday, July 8, 2016.
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 ...
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 ...
A powerful rebound in hiring last month eased fears about an economic downturn as the U.S. expansion enters its eighth year, putting the nation on solid footing to absorb global shocks and market turbulence.
That U.S. stocks were able to erase their Brexit trauma and pull within inches of a record Friday was impressive enough. That they did it on a day bonds yields were flirting with all-time lows was unprecedented.
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's helmsman will come out of the closet in this month's 'Star Trek Beyond.' With the release of the upcoming Star Trek Beyond, the long-lived sci-fi franchise is going to boldly go where it's never gone before with the revelation that Hikaru ...
The singer welcomed an adorable baby girl in late June and announced the happy news this afternoon on Twitter. Taking to the social media website, Morissette tweeted, "she's here!
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.
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.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) A person with knowledge of the proposal has told The Associated Press that the Denver Broncos have boosted their offer to Super Bowl MVP Von Miller, who has threatened to sit out the 2016 season without a long-term deal.
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.
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 ...
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.
