Gunfire erupted in an elementary school classroom in the California city of San Bernardino on Monday in what police said they believe to be a case of "murder-suicide" resulting in four "victims."...
Ed Sheeran has struck a deal to end a $20m (£13.8m) copyright infringement legal claim over his hit song Photograph. Songwriters Thomas Leonard and Martin Harrington sued the singer last June,...
President Donald Trump has said Neil Gorsuch will be "truly great", as the Colorado judge took the oath to become a justice on the US Supreme Court. "And I got it done in the first 100 days," Mr...
Afia Schwarzenegger has taken to her Instagram page to accuse Kumawood actress Benedicta Gafah of being a prostitute. The controversial TV and Radio Presenter alleged that the Actress has aborted her...
One of the worst droughts in California history has officially ended, Governor Jerry Brown declared, but not before it strained the state's farm economy and threatened water supplies for millions of...
The number of human interventions in journeys made by driverless cars from Google company Waymo in California more than halved in 2016. There were only 124 “disengagement” incidents last year,...
Big US corporations have identified a new strategy for managing irate investors at annual shareholder meetings: Going virtual. This year, about 250 companies are expected to convene their yearly...
Uber has said claims it used self-driving technology stolen from Google were “demonstrably false”. Waymo – a company spun out of Google – filed a lawsuit in February claiming former employee...
Chuck Berry famously stole Johnny B Goode from him after hearing him play it in Back To The Future. And on Friday Michael J Fox got to witness a special tribute to the man himself at the Rock And...
Folk legend Joan Baez called for a new era of activism and slain rapper Tupac Shakur was hailed as a nuanced hero Friday as they entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Grunge icons Pearl Jam,...
California Governor Jerry Brown declared Friday the official end of the state's drought that lasted more than five years. Despite lifting the drought emergency in all but four counties, the governor...
The US government dropped its effort to force Twitter to identify the owner of an anti-Trump account purported to voice dissent from federal employees, court documents showed Friday. In a court...
Once a bleak neighborhood of deserted streets and half-empty office buildings, downtown Los Angeles is experiencing a stunning revival as restaurants, businesses and new residents pour into the city....
US regulators granted Silicon Valley biotech firm 23andMe permission to become the first company to market reports showing customers' health risks based on their genetics. The first reports will be...
YouTube on Thursday stopped placing ads on channels with fewer than 10,000 views in a move aimed at preventing people from making money off offensive or pirated videos. The move came with YouTube...
Twitter filed suit Thursday against the US government, asking a court to back its refusal to hand over the identities of users claiming to be dissenting federal employees. The lawsuit revealed that...
Facebook on Thursday ramped up its fight against "fake news" by adding tips on how to tell when shared stories are bogus. An initiative being launched in the US, France and a dozen other countries...
Police in a California county warns, "You can lose your life and none of that is worth a selfie!" Police in a California county have a warning for camera-toting thrill seekers: "You can lose your...
Twitter on Thursday unveiled a low-data usage version of the social network, which aims to bring in users in emerging markets and areas with slow or expensive mobile networks. The California group...
The Chinese smartphone-maker Huawei has won a patent victory over its South Korean rival Samsung. A Chinese court in Quanzhou has ordered the Galaxy S8-maker to pay 80m yuan ($11.6m; £9.3m) to...
