The unprecedented number of voting complaints during New York’s April presidential primary was the result of flawed election procedures and laws, the state’s Attorney General Eric Schneiderman alleged.

Announcing the results of an inquiry into complaints about the state’s marred primary vote, Schneiderman said his office received nearly 1,500 complaints, ten times the previous record high.

John Dramani Mahama, the President of the African nation of Ghana, was at the airport see of Muslim pilgrims from his country leaving for Mecca to perform this year's Hajj.

An investigation has been launched by the Navy into an allegation that the former Navy SEAL who claims to have shot and killed Osama bin Laden might have revealed classified information to unauthorized people, said a Navy official. Since Robert O'Neill declared that he was part of the operation that led to killing of the al-Qaeda leader, he has given several interviews.

On July 3, 2014, Zack 'Danger' Brown of Columbus, Ohio, kicked off an unusual Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for 'potato salad.'

The campaign was launched for raising a rather modest funding target of $10; and, within a week, the project has raised an amount of $69,000 from over 5,000 backers --- with 23 days still left for the campaign to come to an end!