Category Archives: World

PITCAIRN, Pa. - Police say a Pittsburgh-area woman left her five children alone so she could drive her fugitive boyfriend across the state to avoid arrest. Thirty-four-year-old Tiffany Jackson, of Pit...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - The CEO of South Carolina’s state-owned utility is retiring and is the first executive to leave following last month’s failure of a nuclear power project that customers ha...

JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. - Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Friday emphatically defended the web of regulations the Fed helped enact after the 2008 financial crisis, saying it helped restore the bankin...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Arkansas’ governor said Friday he will spare the life of a death row inmate whom the state planned to put to death earlier this year, but he also set a November execution dat...

ATLANTA - Cities across the U.S. are trying to encourage the homeless to find beds of their own, not just a cot for the night. In theory, no one should stay in a shelter very long. Atlanta is putting ...

SAO PAULO - Brazil’s mega-corruption scandal that has ensnared much of its political and economic elite has one sector of its struggling economy booming: the sale of electronic monitoring bracel...

KABUL - The number of people killed in an attack on a Shiite mosque in the Afghan capital during Friday prayers rose to at least 28 - up from 20 - including women and children, the chief of Kabul̵...

NASHVILLE - The Republican National Committee walked the tightrope Friday in carefully but resolutely denouncing white supremacist groups without criticizing President Donald Trump, who waffled in his...

PARIS - President Emmanuel Macron’s office has confirmed a report that the French leader spent 26,000 euros ($30,695) on makeup during his first three months in power, and says it’s trying...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Ten civilians, including three children, were killed in a raid by foreign and Somali forces on a farm in southern Somalia, a deputy governor said Friday, as the U.S. military conf...