One police officer has died and another has undergone surgery after they were shot in an incident in San Diego.

Several hundred Donald Trump supporters — a few of them openly carrying guns as allowed under Ohio law — gathered for the first major pro-Trump rally of the four-day Republican National Convention.

The Republican National Convention is taking place this week in Cleveland, Ohio.

US presidential hopeful Donald Trump has said he believes relations between police and the nation's African-American community are "far worse" than people think.

Barack Obama will meet relatives of the five police officers killed in Dallas when a gunman opened fire on a protest march, the White House said.

A suburban police officer likely wouldn’t have shot dead a black motorist if he had been white, Minnesota’s governor has said, joining the national debate in the US over how law enforcement treats black people.

Responsibility for the murder of five police officers in Dallas has been claimed by a radical civil rights group called the Black Power Political Organization.

The man shot dead by police in Minnesota has been named

Albert Woodfox, the last of three high-profile Louisiana prisoners known as the “Angola Three”, and who has spent more than four decades in solitary confinement, could walk free within days after a federal judge ordered state officials to release him immediately.

US companies are forecast to cross the Atlantic to raise funds in euro at the fastest pace in at least eight years as borrowing costs in Europe fall below dollar rates by the most in a decade.

He looked like any other impatient tourist checking the board at airport arrivals: a lanky, long-haired man in a baseball cap with his hands in the pockets of his plaid Bermuda shorts, a bulky backpack hanging from his shoulders.

Any dieter knows that it’s hard to keep off weight you have lost.

The man dubbed the Granddad Bandit by the FBI and suspected in 25 bank robberies across 13 US states was captured at his home after a lengthy standoff that ended peacefully, authorities said.

At least 16 people were killed when floodwater tore through a campsite in Arkansas, US officials said today.

Barack Obama consoled relatives of the 11 workers killed in the Gulf oil spill disaster, acknowledging their "unimaginable grief" and assuring them that he would stand with them.

Laboratory tests confirmed that oil from a spewing Gulf of Mexico well has accumulated in at least two extensive plumes deep under the surface, scientists with the University of South Florida said today.

US President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney will skip the Republican National Convention because of mounting concerns about Hurricane Gustav, the White House said today.

Dozens of cargo ships, petrochemical tankers and smaller vessels were stacked up near a closed stretch of the Mississippi River today, after a collision between a barge and tanker spilled more than 400,000 gallons of fuel oil into the busy shipping waterway.

There was disappointment all round for Ireland's trio of golfers at the National Collegiate Athletic Association Regional Championships this week, despite some good individual performances.

Ten Irish golfers still have their eyes on the big prize in US collegiate golf after the fields were set this week for the NCAA Regional championships.

Danielle McVeigh claimed her maiden victory in US Collegiate golf and steered Texas A&M University to a two-stroke team victory at the 54-hole Donnis Thompson Invitational in Hawaii.

Convicted US sniper Lee Boyd Malvo told authorities that he and John Allen Muhammad were responsible for four additional shootings that had not been publicly linked to them before, according to a published report.

Washington sniper John Muhammad will be sentenced in Maryland today, after being convicted of another six killings.

A man has shot dead four people during a church service in the US before abducting his wife, whom he later shot dead at another location.

Rapper Corey 'C-Murder' Miller has been put in a house arrest program while he awaits a re-trial on a second-degree murder charge.

Reese Witherspoon – now Hollywood’s highest paid actress – credits her parents with giving her an “ambitious streak”.

MICHAEL BROWN, director of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), has been removed from his role managing relief efforts for the victims of Hurricane Katrina and is returning to Washington.

Michael Brown, director of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency, is being removed from his role managing relief efforts for the victims of Hurricane Katrina and is returning to Washington.

President George Bush is spending much of his time on relief efforts for victims of Hurricane Katrina after his administration was harshly criticised for an initial response to the storm called slow and inadequate.

ONE week after Hurricane Katrina devastated the region, residents began to return to New Orleans amid warnings from the mayor that 10,000 people may have died.

Teenager sniper suspect Lee Malvo sought a way out of his “situation” a few months before the Washington attacks, a court was told.

A MAN suspected in the killings of five women was arrested peacefully outside a tyre store, ending a months-long manhunt in a case that terrified women across Louisiana in the United States.

Authorities have linked yet another shooting to the sniper suspects – the wounding of a Maryland store clerk more than two weeks before a string of attacks began terrorising the Washington area.

Washington sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad’s life has followed a tangled path.