Teenager Borna Coric complete an unlikely comeback for Croatia as the small Balkan nation beat the United States 3-2 in a Davis Cup quarter-final in Oregon.

Three police officers are shot dead and three others are injured in a shooting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with one suspect dead and two others possibly at large.

American professional wrestler and mixed martial artist Brock Lesnar has been flagged by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) for a possible doping violation.

This image of a woman peacefully protesting in Baton Rouge while being seen to be aggressively fetched by police officers in riot gear stirs social media.

Protests against the police shooting of black men spread across US cities, with dozens of arrests made, but with most passing off peacefully.

Hillary Clinton's use of private email while secretary of state put the "entire country in danger", US Republican Donald Trump says.

The FBI announces it will not recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton over her use of private email while she was secretary of state.

A Muslim man on his way to morning prayer is shot and stabbed outside a mosque in Houston, Texas.

The US State Department says it “cannot yet confirm” the link of Middle-east-based terror group Islamic State (IS) with the hostage crisis at a restaurant in Bangladesh capital Dhaka though the group reportedly claimed credit for the attack.

US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Ambassador Tom Shannon says his country is proud of its relationship with Bangladesh following remarkable achievements in socio-economic front.

Prior to the start of the Copa America, United States coach Juergen Klinsmann had set the semi-finals as a target but will now need a new goal as the hosts prepare to take on top-ranked Argentina for spot in the final.

Jurgen Klinsmann is daring to dream that the United States can pull off mission improbable in the Copa America Centenario semi-finals against Argentina.

Authorities have been searching the home of a man accused of sexually assaulting a teenager whose parents police say gave her to him when she was 14.

The presumptive Republican candidate in the US presidential election, Donald Trump, has suggested the country should consider using profiling to combat crime.

High school student David Dworken spends 10 to 15 hours between classes on his laptop, hacking US Defense Department websites, and gets praised for finding vulnerabilities.

A bartender says the Florida nightclub shooter stalked her nearly a decade ago, sending her so many uncomfortable messages on Facebook that she blocked him on the social network.

An American female basketball player uses forged birth documents to falsely claim she had South Korean ancestry, prosecutors have claimed.

The United States survive a late onslaught to beat Ecuador 2-1 and advance to the semi-finals of the Copa America for the first time since 1995 after a pulsating and sometime fractious match in Seattle on Thursday.

Jamaica's attorney general has sparked criticism after saying it was "disrespectful" to Jamaican law for the US embassy to fly a rainbow flag following the Orlando shooting.

Russian government hackers breached Democratic National Committee computers to obtain opposition research on Republican Donald Trump.