Tens of thousands of people have gathered in Washington and at rallies across the US to call for laws limiting gun ownership after recent mass shootings.
A person who was trying to enter an Alabama primary school where a summer program was being held has been shot dead by a police officer, authorities say.
Amber Heard's lawyer says she was "demonised" by Johnny Depp's legal team, and the barrage of hostile social media posts influenced the defamation trial's jury.
A jury has finished a second day of deliberations on the defamation claims of Johnny Depp and ex-wife Amber Heard over their volatile and unhappy marriage.
The United States should make it easier to confine "deranged" people and eliminate gun-free school zones after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers this week at a Texas school, former president Donald Trump says.
Americans have been urged to stand up to the gun lobby, as a visibly shaken Joe Biden addressed the nation after a gunman killed 21 at a Texas primary school.
A mass shooting at a primary school in the US state of Texas has left at least 18 children and three adults dead, with the teenage suspect also losing his life.
A white teenager who killed 10 people in a racist attack at a western New York grocery store in a black neighbourhood had been taken into custody last year and given a mental health evaluation after making a threat at his high school, authorities say.
An 18-year-old gunman has fatally shot 10 people and wounded three others at a grocery store in a black neighbourhood of Buffalo, New York, before surrendering.
Six Indian citizens who tried to enter the United States illegally and did not know how to swim have been rescued from a sinking boat in northern New York, federal court documents state.
The US Senate has confirmed Caroline Kennedy, a former ambassador to Japan and daughter of late president John F Kennedy, as US ambassador to Australia, an important ally to the US.
A man has been charged after allegedly storming the stage with a replica handgun and tackling US comic Dave Chappelle during a live show in Los Angeles.
