Employers shook off two months of weak hiring and added 287,000 jobs in June, a blistering pace that points to a resilient U.S. economy recovering from a weak winter and spring.
Philando Castile put on a suit and tie to interview for a supervisory position in the school district where he had worked since he was a teenager. He told the interviewer his goal was to one day "sit on the other side of this table."
The trial continues for the highest-ranking Baltimore police officer facing criminal charges stemming from the arrest and death of a young black man whose neck was broken in the back of a transport van.
The South Carolina lawyer for the family of a black man who was killed while running away from an officer is now representing the family of a black man killed during a confrontation with police in Louisiana.
He was a newly married grandfather, a former U.S. Marine and a veteran cop who had gone to Iraq and Afghanistan to help train local police. But Brent Thompson died protecting the rights of fellow Americans to criticize his brethren in blue.
San Diego police believe they have found the man behind a series of attacks on homeless men across the city that left two dead and two severely injured.
Frustrated by the FBI's decision not to indict Hillary Clinton, congressional Republicans are pressing the agency to launch a new investigation into whether the Democratic presidential candidate lied to Congress during her testimony on the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
After a young girl was abducted on the Navajo Nation and found dead near a towering rock formation, tribal officials faced tough questions about why an Amber Alert system proposed years earlier was never implemented.
With the U.S. and global economic outlook unusually cloudy, Friday's jobs report for June will produce one of the most anticipated economic figures of the year.