With jury selection barely begun in the trial of accused Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the prospect of the death penalty is already front and center.
SpaceX aims to propel modern rocket science into a brave new era by landing a key part of its Falcon 9 rocket on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean.
New York Mayor and police commissioner Bill Bratton criticized dozens of officers for turning their backs on the mayor at the funeral of a murdered policeman.
US investment bank Morgan Stanley said it had fired an employee for stealing the personal data of hundreds of thousands of wealth management customers.
Thousands of police gathered in New York to bid farewell to a murdered officer where a small number used the funeral to protest against mayor Bill de Blasio once again.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Yerlan Idrissov declared that Kazakhstan would not obtain visa free regime from the USA and the European Union in the nearest future.
A Canadian frigate with 250 marines on board set off from Halifax on the Atlantic coast to join NATO forces in the Mediterranean Sea monitoring the Ukraine crisis.
The US rolled out new sanctions against Russian officials Monday under its "Magnitsky" law, named after a Russian whistleblower who died in a Moscow prison in 2009.