Category Archives: World

CUCUTA, Colombia - Under a scorching sun just a short walk from Colombia’s border with Venezuela, hundreds of hungry men, women and children line up for bowls of chicken and rice - the first ful...

WASHINGTON - It took President Donald Trump three days to do what should have come fast and easy. In his carefully worded statement Monday, Trump condemned members of the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and w...

MADISON, Wis. - House Speaker Paul Ryan is planning to hold a town hall meeting Aug. 21, his first open to the general public in his congressional district in nearly two years. The town hall in Racine...

NEW YORK - A top Federal Reserve official is suggesting that the Fed will likely announce next month that it will begin paring its bond portfolio - a step that could lead to slightly higher rates on m...

NEW YORK - Combative and insistent, President Donald Trump declared anew Tuesday “there is blame on both sides” for the deadly violence last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, appearing...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Radesh Singh’s grandfather was just 11 years old when he left his village in India’s Punjab province to move to Peshawar, in the far northwest of the country on the bo...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - There has been a spike in violence in an eastern town in Saudi Arabia, where masked security forces patrol the streets in armoured cars and come under fire from local Shi...

WASHINGTON - It may not equal Social Security and Medicare as a “third rail” program that politicians touch at their own risk, yet Medicaid seems to have gotten stronger after the Republic...

WASHINGTON - Proponents of nuclear power are pushing to revive a failed project to build two reactors in South Carolina, arguing that the demise of the $14 billion venture could signal doom for an ind...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Rufino Varela was a distraught, confused 12-year-old when he went looking for help from the school chaplain to tell him he’d been sexually abused by a mason at his fami...