The FBI director latest disclosures put him back in the spotlight — but throughout his three-decade career he has never shied away from getting his point across, writes Hope Yen

During the second US presidential debate last night, an audience member asked Donald Trump about his past comments on Muslims and his response inspired a trending hashtag #MuslimsReportStuff.

As wildfires sweep through parts of California, residents are increasingly choosing to ignore evacuation orders rather than head to safety, officials said.

Apple announced the launch of a bug bounty program, offering up to $200,000 for some discoveries.

The US now has a unique opportunity to shift the burden of proof about the necessity for stronger gun control regulation, writes Frederic Lemieux

It’s unlikely that Omar Mateen, who killed 50 people in a nightclub at the weekend, was directly linked to IS. Lack of gun control and mental illness may be factors, says Peter Apps

Muslim leaders in Scotland have invited Donald Trump to visit mosques there when he travels to the country to open his new golf course later this month.

Three people connected to one of the San Bernardino terrorists have been arrested in a marriage fraud conspiracy.

In the wake of the horrific attack at the Brussels airport and a metro station, there were immediate calls for more information sharing and greater co-ordination among the world’s intelligence agencies to detect terrorist plots before they can be executed, writes David Wise

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The US justice department cannot use a 227-year-old law to force Apple to provide the FBI with access to locked iPhone data, a judge ruled.

Apple chief Tim Cook has said to comply with a court order to help the FBI break into an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters would amount to the “software equivalent of cancer”.

Amid anti-immigrant rhetoric, it’s worth remembering some of the major candidates vying for the presidency are either the children or spouses of immigrants, writes Bette Browne

All public schools in the Los Angeles area have been ordered closed after an emailed threat targeted students.

US president Barack Obama has laid out the most sweeping defence yet of his strategy to defeat Islamic State (IS), but he offered no US policy shift to confront what he called a “new phase” in the terrorist threat after a mass shooting in California.

The Pakistani woman who joined her US-born husband in killing 14 people in a commando-style assault on his co-workers in California is at the centre of a massive FBI terrorism investigation, yet she remains shrouded in mystery.

Investigators in the US believe the woman who carried out Wednesday's gun attack in California with her husband had sworn allegiance to the so-called Islamic State.

There have been more than 350 shootings this year, in which four or more people were wounded or killed in the US, according to the crowd-sourced website shootingtracker.com, which keeps a running tally of gun violence.

ENGLAND: Dozens of “number two” buses — powered entirely by poo — could be picking up passengers in Bristol next year.

‘Newsweek’ says Satoshi Nakamoto is the creator of cyber currency bitcoin, but the cantankerous, obsessively private engineer has denied it. So is the magazine right, asks Dan Buckley

MANY US cities have a much better economic outlook than struggling Detroit, but the Motor City’s bankruptcy filing should still set off alarm bells elsewhere as the cost of paying retirement benefits swells.

Fugitive US killer Christopher Dorner died from a single gunshot wound to the head as authorities were pumping tear gas into a mountain cabin during a deadly gun battle with sheriff’s deputies.

Sheriff’s deputies who believed they had cornered a fugitive ex-cop in the mountains above Los Angeles did not purposely torch a cabin where a nine-day manhunt ended, but the deputies may have ignited the blaze by firing tear gas, officials said.

The extraordinary manhunt for the former Los Angeles policeman suspected of three murders converged on a mountain cabin where it is believed he barricaded himself inside, engaged in a shoot-out that killed a deputy and never emerged as the home went up in flames.

A man opened fire on his stepdaughter’s family inside a California restaurant Saturday, killing her husband and six-year-old son, critically wounding her and another child, and then fatally shooting himself, police said.

Firefighters today revealed they were finally ’optimistic’ in their struggle to contain huge wildfires in southern California.

POWERFUL winds stoked three major wildfires yesterday after destroying dozens of homes, forcing thousands to flee and killing two people.