Gathering in Havana for a regional summit Caribbean leaders have urged the United States to end its 54-year-old economic embargo against Cuba, which Gaston Browne, the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, described as "senseless."
Riots, looting and violence broke out for a second night in a row on Sunday during protests in Berkeley, California over recent police killings of unarmed black men.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced new guidance to ease racial profiling accusations, but immigrant rights groups have voiced concern about the new steps.
A former employee of Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in the convicted con man's Ponzi scheme. U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor said also ordered the 67-year-old to forfeit $155 billion.
Furry convention in Chicago abruptly stopped after chlorine gas permeates through hotel. The incident is believed to be deliberate, as chlorine powder was left on a stairwell.
White House chef Sam Kass will stop cooking for the Obamas at the end of the year, Eater DC reported. He led the executive mansion's kitchen for six years and is poised to move to New York to live with his wife, MSNBC host Alex Wagner.
Three years after pleading guilty to selling confidential product information to suppliers, a former Apple executive was sentenced last week to a one-year prison term and a $4.5 million fine. Paul Devine, who was a supply manager at Apple from 2005 through 2010, had been accused of taking money for confidential information.
The Senate Intelligence Committee is set to release a declassified 480-page report on Tuesday on the use of torture by the Central Intelligence Agency after 9/11.
The Supreme Court will not review BP's claims that it was forced to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in unjustified claims after its 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
A White House report on Native American youth said they face education, socioeconomic, and health barriers that are "nothing short of a national crisis."
The mother of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was fatally shot on Nov. 22 while playing with a fake gun at a Cleveland playground, has spoken for the first time since his death.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio recently said that Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani doesn't understand "the reality" behind his recent comments that focused more on African-American community violence rather than the issue of police interactions with minorities.
Prince William and Kate Middleton began their itinerary for their U.S. visit in New York City on Monday. The packed trip will have the royal couple meeting with the most elite figures in American culture.
An American photojournalist and a South African teacher held captive by Al Qaeda militants in Yemen were killed on Saturday during an ill-fated U.S. rescue mission.
Protests against Eric Garner's death turn violent along West coast At least two police officers in California have been injured in a protest against the grand jury decision against the New York police officer who killed Eric Garner by holding him in a chokehold.
Uruguay accepted six men who were detained at Guantanamo for more than a decade Sunday, in a move that will help President Barack Obama fulfill his promise to close the military prison.
