Dallas shooting News

The same jury that convicted Roy Oliver, 38, of murder on Tuesday in the death of Jordan Edwards, 15, deliberated for several hours before deciding his prison sentence.

Everything but guns banned in Cleveland.

Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called on Tuesday for an end to racism and gun violence in the US. 

As Dallas came to grips Monday with the aftermath of last week`s sniper shooting targeting police, more details emerged about the gunman and his troubled past.

During the vigil on Monday night, which was also attended by police officials, relatives and friends of the killed people, Dallas Police Association President Ron Pinkston read out the names of all the fallen officers, Xinhua news agency reported.

The 25-year-old Johnson, who told negotiators he was angry over police treatment of black men and was specifically targeting white cops, was killed in the explosion.

Police departments across the United States are searching for new tactics for a more difficult era of racial tension, increasingly lethal mass shootings and global terrorism.

President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush are slated to address an interfaith memorial service in Dallas on Tuesday for the five police officers who were killed in a sniper attack last week.

The U.S. embassy of Bahrain, a tiny Middle Eastern island nation, on Saturday urged citizens via twitter to "be cautious of protests or crowded areas occurring around the U.S."

Obama, who prides himself on his measured approach, is usually loath to alter travel plans. 

It was in a Saint Paul suburb that one of last week`s deaths occurred. 

US President Barack Obama will cut short a trip to Europe and travel to Dallas next week in the wake of the deadly ambush in the city that left five police dead, the White House has said.

Micah Xavier Johnson, the 25-year-old identified as the main shooter in the assault that left five police officers dead, served with US forces in Afghanistan.

At least one sniper in Dallas killed five police officers and wounded seven more in a coordinated attack that ended when police used a robot bomb to kill a shooter who told them he wanted to kill white officers, authorities said Friday.

No signs have emerged of international links to the shootings in Dallas that claimed the lives of five police officers and wounded six more, U.S. officials said on Friday.

Obama has condemned the killing of 5 transit officers in downtown Dallas by suspected snipers during a protest against police shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana.

The officers were killed and several others wounded when snipers opened fire on policemen during protests in downtown Dallas.