Underdogs Cleveland Cavaliers win NBA championship in city's first sports title in 52 years
'Cleveland, this is for you,' says tearful MVP LeBron James after stunning 93-89 game 7 victory.
US Southwest grappling with deadly record-breaking heat wave
At least 4 die as Phoenix heads for 120 degree heat and fires rage across three states.
Finding Dory blows box office records out of the water
Experts attribute cinematography and large female audience to the Finding Nemo sequel's splash success.
Donald Trump urges racial profiling of Muslims and others in the US
Profiling is 'common sense just like in Israel' claims presumptive Republican candidate in interview.
Woman attacked by black bear while running marathon in New Mexico
Runner suffers several bites to head, neck and upper body, but is expected to survive the attack, say doctor.
Tragedy 'averted' after Long Island brothers arrested with arsenal and Hitler literature say police
Investigators say they 'neutralised a clear public threat.'
Athletes and coach freezing sperm to avoid Zika risk at Rio Olympics
We can't take this health threat lightly, says basketball star Pau Gasol.
51 US State Department officials call for bombing of Assad government targets
It's the best way to achieve 'regime change' and drive out Isis says 'dissent' memo
Ford, Wells Fargo, UPS back away from Republican convention sponsorship
Last GOP convention's sponsors fall off amid concerns of negative fallout.
Shocked US and world leaders call for unity against hatred after Jo Cox murder
Hillary Clinton urges US and Britain to "stand together against hate and violence."
Dramatic video of hero student Jon Meis tackling gunman Aaron Ybarra at Seattle university
Gunman Aaron Ybarra plans insanity defence in murder trial.
Donald Trump says Russian hack of his files was secretly conducted by Democrats
All this negative information has been out there 'for years', says the Republican candidate.
World Anti-Doping Agency ignored drug confession of Russian athlete during 2012 London Olympics
Critics blast Wada as do-nothing panel tipped off years ago to wide-spread doping.
CIA medical staff provided torture guidelines for post 9/11 prisoners document reveals
Instructions involved details on 'confinement boxes,' waterboarding and food and sleep deprivation.
SpaceX rocket crashes on landing after delivering two satellites to orbit
High-orbit satellite delivery created too much speed, too much re-entry heat for booster.
Alligator drags toddler into lagoon near Disney World as father battles 7ft reptile
2-year-old boy dragged into Seven Seas Lagoon south of the Magic Kingdom near Disney's Grand Floridian Resort.
US Navy boosts fleet in East Asia as China tensions rise
China officials criticise 'provocative' US over 'rebalancing' in region.
President Obama brands Donald Trump as 'dangerous' and 'un-American'
Obama also shrugs off Trump's insistence that he use the phrase 'radical Islamic terrorism.'
British researchers launch operation to unearth King Henry I's remains in school car park
Scientists begin search of Reading Abbey ruins with ground-penetrating radar.
Young Omar Mateen threatened mass shooting at school, says former classmate
Orlando mass killer remembered as a vicious bully, especially towards girls, in his Florida elementary school.
Donald Trump bans 'phony' Washington Post from events for 'inaccurate' reporting
He's annoyed about coverage of a confusing interview on Obama and Muslims.
Lil Wayne seizure forces rapper's plane to make emergency landing
Wayne is reportedly recovering and in 'good spirits' confirmed his publicist.
Pope Francis condems easy availability of guns worldwide in wake of Orlando massacre
Weapons circulate with 'brazen and virtually absolute freedom' pontiff declares in United Nations speech.
Just like Hillary, Trump accused of deleting important emails required for lawsuit
Lawsuit judge has a hard time believing email destruction was 'routine,' as Trump insisted.
Students protest Brock Turner's 6-month rape sentence by disrupting Stanford graduation day
Graduating students wave placards complaining about rapist Brock Turner's sentence.
Hamilton scoops up 11 Tonys and narrowly misses record number of awards
Festivities are dimmed by grief amid tributes to the 50 people killed in a Florida nightclub.
This is the powerful gun that has featured in almost every American mass shooting
AR-15s used during massacres in San Bernardino, Newton, the Aurora movie theatre and Pulse nightclub.
'Gay blood' not accepted at Orlando donor stations for injured massacre survivors
Federal guidelines blood from sexually active gay men, to block possible HIV transmission in transfusions.
How FBI super snitch Chuck Blazer went from stealing Queen Elizabeth's crystal to unmasking Fifa cabal
The rise and fall of 'Mr Football'.
City defies state deadline to destroy beach fort of California 'surf nazi' gang
Palos Verdes Estate might get around to the 'complex' problem later says local official.