Car passenger dies after plane crashes on California highway
Eyewitness says it could have been much worse as officials investigate the cause of the crash.
California businessman launches petition to force politicians to wear logos of their top donors
The proposal would also require candidates to disclose their top 10 donors in adverts.
US right-to-die advocates develop cheaper death drug
Lethal cocktail was created to thwart skyrocketing price of $5,000 Valent pharma dose.
Australian pro surfer Brett Connellan badly mauled in shark attack
Surfer, 22, lost much of his left thigh and damaged his hand fighting for his life.
Rattled Japan blasts Trump's call to arm itself with nuclear weapons to replace US military presence.
It is impossible for Japan to arm itself with nuclear weapons says foreign minister.
Satellite images indicate second southernmost Viking settlement in North America
If discovery pans out, it could rewrite Viking history.
Five female football champs sue US Soccer for paying them 25% of what male players rake in
World Cup take: women get $2m for winning 2015 cup, men collect $9m for bombing out in Brazil in Round 16.
Donald Trump hotel executive Nathan Crisp has also been charged with assaulting a woman
Crisp allegedly shoved mom-of-2 Sheneik McCallum to the ground twice during a heating argument.
Taking a lemonade stand: Shark Tank's 11-year-old Mikaila Ulmer makes juicy lemonade deal with Whole Foods
Mikaila was driven to honey and to help bees after she was stung — twice.
Hamilton producers regret confusion over 'non-white' casting call but they don't want white actors
Imagine if the audition called for 'whites only,' says angry civil rights attorney.
They're on a roll: FBI agrees to hack into iPhone and iPod of accused teenage killers in Arkansas
Officials still haven't told Apple how they unlocked Syed Farook's iPhone.
Developing nations closing wombs-to-let to Westerners
Criticism and an 'anti-colonialist' resentment is shutting out babies for foreigners.
Six dead and dozens in hospital from 'super painkiller' fentanyl in California
DEA terms first wave in Northern California of illegal sales a 'serious health threat.'
Donald Trump says Michelle Fields deserved to be manhandled by campaign manager Corey Lewandowski
Michelle Fields was 'grabbing at me' and Corey Lewandowski was 'trying to block her' says Trump.
America's Oscar-winning sweetheart Patty Duke dies at 69
From child actor to spokeswoman for mental health awareness, Duke was a 'tireless warrior'.
New Jersey hospital 1st in US to ban opioid painkillers in emergency room as first line of treatment
Policy aims is to stem historic number of addictions and overdose deaths in America.
San Francisco white university student with dreadlocks grabbed for 'appropriating' black culture
San Francisco State University has launched an investigation into physical confrontation.
Perturbed Charlize Theron: I didn't cut off ex-boyfriend Sean Penn
The two decided together to cut off their engagement she explains.
Isis using drones to record suicide missions to recruit fighters
No one has mastered terror tech the way Daesh has.
US Capitol gunman Larry Russell Dawson was 'prophet' arrested before for disrupting Congress
Larry Russell Dawson had history of mental illness say officials.
CIA took nude, 'gruesome' photos of terror suspects before torture, says ex-US official
Pictures indicate sexual humiliation was part of CIA subjugation tactic.
American Civil Liberties Union sues North Carolina over transgender loo battle
ACLU seeks injunction against law that 'discriminates on the basis of sex and of sexual orientation.'
'Warm, crazy' season melts Arctic winter ice to smallest area ever recorded
The heat was 'relentless,' says director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
Former Honduras president Rafael Callejas pleads guilty in Fifa bribe corruption case
He admits taking bribes to steer World Cup marketing and broadcast contracts to Media World in Florida.
Secret Service quashes growing firearms petition and bans guns at Republican National Convention
Those participating in the convention will be 'sitting ducks ' without their firearms says petition.
Los Angeles area taqueria names dishes for Mexican drug thugs, gets mixed response
Southern California narco-tacos a hit ... or not.
A carved tombstone popped in Central Park ... for Donald Trump
The epitaph reads: "Made America hate again."
Hundreds of thousands of fish killed by warming, pollutants choke Florida waterways
Warmer temperatures are fueling toxic blooms as extra rains wash fertiliser, pollution into waterways.
New York millionaire Calvin Harris faces fourth trial in wife's death
New evidence of 'burn pit' raises macabre new scenario in Michele Harris' murder.
Canadian descendants of American buffalo herd to be sent to US Indian reservation to revive population
They're part of our spiritual being and must return says Blackfeet leader.