Category Archives: World

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Engineers at a lab in Florida have been working quietly for the last two and a half years on building one of the most powerful magnets in the world. And on Monday, they succeeded. ...

NEW YORK - A pop-up dinner featuring white-clad guests who brought their own tables, chairs and food has drawn thousands to the plaza outside New York City’s Lincoln Center. The event, known as ...

LOS ANGELES - A 103-year-old Cambodian woman who survived starvation, suffering and war in her native land beamed and waved a tiny American flag on Tuesday as she became a United States citizen. Hong ...

LOS ANGELES - Latino leaders meeting with top CBS executives last week were braced for a confrontation over a protracted scarcity of Latino actors and stories on the network’s prime-time shows. ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - No one knew what to call Sonny Burgess’ music when he mixed rhythm and blues, gospel tunes and country riffs in the 1950s, but it was clear where it came from. “It all ...

CAMDEN, Ark. - It’s a smorgasbord on Arkansas highways, with the third food spill in as many weeks. A truck driver distracted by a GPS unit crashed near the intersection of U.S. 278 and Arkansas...

MADISON, Wis. - Gov. Scott Walker’s top aides offered legislators another round of assurances Tuesday that a Foxconn Technology Group plant in southeastern Wisconsin would transform the state...

NEW YORK - Billy Joel wore a bright yellow Star of David on his black suit during an encore at Madison Square Garden. Monday’s performance by “The Piano Man” came more than a week af...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Police say a Confederate soldier statue at a cemetery in Ohio has been damaged by vandals who took its head. Columbus police say vandals appear to have climbed on an arched memorial a...

CHICAGO - More than 30 colleagues and friends of a former Northwestern University professor charged in the brutal stabbing death of a 26-year-old man wrote letters supporting him both as a friend and ...