There's nothing new about a dangerous suspect dying at the hands of police. But Thursday night in Dallas, the situation played out with a twist. Micah Johnson, believed to have fatally shot five police officers, was killed by an explosive device that a robot delivered.
Utah health officials said Friday that the death of an elderly patient at the end of June was related to the Zika virus, the first Zika-related death in the continental United States. The unidentified resident of Salt Lake County had traveled to an undisclosed destination where the virus is circulating.
President Barack Obama said Friday that the nation was "horrified" after what he called "a vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement" in Dallas.
Donald Trump responded to the deadly police shootings in Dallas by offering his prayers to the victims and their families and by calling for restored "law and order."
Alton Sterling was shot this week in Baton Rouge. Then five officers were killed in Dallas. Now protesters are struggling to figure out what comes next.
San Diego police on Thursday morning arrested a 36-year-old man in connection with a series of attacks on the California city's homeless population, police announced.
Florida Democratic Rep. Corrine Brown and her chief of staff were indicted Friday for their roles in a conspiracy and fraud scheme involving a fraudulent education charity, the Justice Department announced.
Cop shootings, a mad gun culture, racism, divisive political rhetoric and anger at an imagined 'other'--we have a responsibility to save our country, writes Jay Parini.
People across the United States are planning to come together Friday and this weekend in reaction to back-to-back police shootings caught on video this week and Thursday night's deadly shooting of five Dallas police officers.
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.
Following patient deaths last week, Juno Therapeutics announced Thursday that it is putting its "ROCKET" trial on clinical hold, at the direction of the FDA.
Four police officers were killed in downtown Dallas as crowds protested the fatal shootings of two African-American men by police in Louisiana and Minnesota.
For Diamond Reynolds, the woman who started a live stream on Facebook after her fiancé Philando Castile was shot and killed by a police officer in Minnesota, today is about justice.
Lots of women look forward to motherhood -- getting to know a tiny baby, raising a growing child, developing a relationship with a maturing son or daughter. All over the world, people believe that parenting is the most rewarding part of life. And it's good that so many mothers treasure that bond with their child, because the transition to parenthood causes profound changes in a woman's marriage and her overall happiness... and not for the better.
