Baltimore riots 2015: US Justice Department to investigate police in wake of Freddie Gray death
Officials will look for pattern of excessive force.
Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team slammed for hurling wife over a sofa video
America's Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team prank highlights issue of domestic violence among American sportsmen.
Deadly Ebola virus lurked and grew in eye of 'cured' physician, doctors discover
Finding has serious implications for survivors of the fatal disease who could risk blindness.
Pregnant women's ringing mobiles startle their foetuses, study finds
Sound startles unborn babies, disrupts sleep patterns, say researchers.
Virginia campus uproar over 'cyberbullying' Yik Yak app after sex harassment, murder
Female students say University of Mary Washington has failed to protect them.
Late-night TV's Stephen Colbert teams with donors to grant $800,000 to South Carolina teachers
Surprise move will fund 1,000 projects at more than 375 school in Colbert's homestate.
Pentagon staff racked up $1m bill for strippers and gambling in Las Vegas and Atlantic City
Disciplinary action already under way for action contradictory to 'our values', says official,
Another North Dakota oil train fire renews fears about 'rolling pipelines'
Critics worry new US rules not strict enough to douse fire threat
Alleged Aurora cinema mass killer James Holmes was bright, awkward student, professor testifies
Accused killer lacked motivation and made 'awkward jokes.'
Chicago paying $5.5m in reparations to black victims of police torture
Mayor Rahm Emanuel called the beatings a 'stain that cannot be removed from our history'.
Baltimore Riots 2015: Police, FBI used spy planes to track protests, citizens
American Civil Liberties Union challenging intrusive surveillance.
Islamic State threatens to slaughter organiser of Texas 'Draw Mohammed' event Pamela Geller
New York police assessing protection plan for controversial city resident.
Couple who had sex on Florida's Bradenton Beach face up to 15 years in prison
Elissa Alvarez, Jose Caballero were filmed by angry grandmother in summer crowd.
Cab company Uber gets out of Dodge to steer clear of Kansas rules
Company won't comply with background checks, more insurance.
Son held in stabbing death of parents at US Virgin Islands vacation home
Mikhail Young, 24, arrested in Massachusetts
Treadmills in gyms are linked to three deaths a year in US
Machines send thousands to emergency rooms.
White House says it's too early to know if Isis was behind attack at Texas 'Draw Mohammed' event
It may have been more 'inspirational,' even though it has claimed responsibility
Avengers star Jeremy Renner not so sorry about Black Widow slut slam
C'mon, it was fictional, actor tells TV late-night host Conan O'Brien
California challenges court order to provide immediate sex-change surgery for prisoner
A delay for Michelle-Lael Norsworthy would do irreparable harm, said lower court judge
US Secretary of State John Kerry makes historic Somalia trip, trapped at airport by security fears
Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud hails 'great moment'.
Activists outraged after Paraguay denies abortion to 10-year-old rape victim
Mother jailed, stepfather who is accused of rape, on the run.
Sheryl Sandberg's husband Dave Goldberg died of head trauma in treadmill fall
Brother found him hours later lying in gym.
Comedian Bill Cosby hit with two new rape accusations
Actress Lili Bernard who appeared in Cosby Show episode says he drugged and attacked her.
Oxford Dictionary may include gender-neutral honorific 'Mx'
Language catching up to the times.
Mother charged with attempted homicide after throwing baby, then jumping off bridge
Both survive 16 metre plunge
Dead gunman Elton Simpson warned of Texas attack on Twitter
He also pledged loyalty to Islamic State leader
Bruce Jenner hit with wrongful death lawsuit in car crash
Stepchildren of dead woman Kimberly Howe says Jenner was 'negligent, careless'
US ambassador to Turkey John Bass uses Instagram to hit back against politician's Twitter sexism
He goes lighter to defend aide Marie Harf from Turkish mayor's sexist slam
Freddie Gray death: Filmmaker Michael Moore demands US police be disarmed
Documentarian also says all blacks in US jails for non-violent crimes should be released.
US: Democrats, GOP back measures to curtail citizen surveillance by National Security Agency
Surveillance reform is an American, not a partisan, says Representative Sensenbrenner