The 75-foot-tall, 75-year-old tree fell on top of the children outside the Kidspace Children's Museum in Pasadena.
Harlem Suarez, 23, was allegedly plotting to detonate a backpack bomb at a public beach in Florida.
Malik Ishaq was on a U.S. list of global terrorists and the group he founded has claimed responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of civilians.
The case, stemming from the 1970s, could have a deposition date set by the end of this week.
Here are some deals for National Lasagna Day 2015.
A motion to oust Speaker Boehner? A refusal to vote on a highway bill? Skirmishes in the ongoing Republican civil war.
The Aug. 6 Fox News debates will now welcome those running for president who aren't polling in the top 10.
An unclassified email network used by Army Gen. Martin Dempsey and other members of the military's Joint Staff has been taken off line because of suspicious activity, a Pentagon spokeswoman said.
A missile defense system that is tasked with combating Iranian ballistic missiles will open in Naples, Italy.
The Ukrainian army death toll since the war in eastern Ukraine began in the middle of April 2014 has been estimated to be about 2,300.
The county judge said the new video debunked theories that Sandra Bland was dead before she was booked in jail.
A former reporter's critique of stories published in May amounts to "industry advocacy, not unbiased journalism," the newspaper says.
Suspect Dmitry Kovtun, who remains in Russia despite extradition attempts, has avoided in-person testimony during the U.K.'s ongoing inquiry into the death of Putin critic Alexander Litvinenko.
Amid protests over the Sandra Bland case in Texas, a black woman named Ralkina Jones dies in a Cleveland cell.
The Obama administration called Jon Stewart a "useful prod" to change public discourse.
Conventional wisdom says a $15 minimum wage is good news for fast-food workers. But what about their employers?
"We will come after all of you" if the Texas trooper who arrested a Chicago-area woman is not charged in her death, the hacker group Anonymous said.
The convicted Israeli spy will be released after about 30 years behind bars.
In North Korea, brassy orchestra tunes are replacing music deemed threatening to Kim Jong Un. The backlash: new interest in censored songs.
The retired Anglican archbishop was readmitted to a hospital in South Africa "after expressing renewed discomfort," his foundation said Tuesday.
As negotiators enter the final round of talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, concerns around human rights take hold in Washington.
A Palestinian man was killed when police raided a camp to arrest two men who were planning to carry out an attack, Israeli officials say.
The Twitter account of Ukraine's representative to the U.N., Yuriy Sergeyev, was commandeered by the extremist Right Sector.
An internal report showed one in three veterans dying before the centers got around to processing their applications.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan previously said any peace process with Kurdish militants would be impossible.
"You don't have to comb over the details, just demonstrate that you're happy to be open," said the former Miss Belgium.
The keynote address Tuesday in Ethiopia's capital marked the end of U.S. President Barack Obama's five-day, two-nation tour of East Africa.
The so-called troika is vastly unpopular with Greeks, who have angrily protested the creditors’ presence in the past.
The ongoing disaster in Tajikistan is another example of what climate scientists say could become the new normal if greenhouse gas emissions aren't reduced.
"He should come home to the United States, and be judged by a jury of his peers," a White House adviser said in response to the pardon request.