Category Archives: World

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Puerto Rico was hit with two lawsuits Monday that for the first time challenge the constitutionality of a federal control board overseeing the island’s finances and its p...

RIO DE JANEIRO - A bullet that hit a British tourist during an attack near Rio de Janeiro missed all of her major vessels and organs and she is recovering well, the hospital treating the woman said Mo...

DETROIT - A Bakersfield, California man was charged with making online threats to blow up two Indiana high schools and extorting underage girls for sexually explicit photos and video, federal authorit...

WASHINGTON - In a story Aug. 3, The Associated Press reported that Cambridge Analytica worked for the successful pro-Brexit campaign in 2016 to pull Britain out of the European Union. The story should...

NEW YORK - Police say a window washer plunged to his death from a New York City building when his harness gave way. A police spokesman says 56-year-old Edwardo Monge (MAHN’-geh) was cleaning win...

MEXICO CITY - Authorities in the western Mexico state of Durango say a preliminary investigation suggests a weekend shootout that killed 10 people was the result of a long-running feud between familie...

CARACAS, Venezuela - Javier Hernandez knew he was going to be fired. Everyone who worked with him in a state-run cement factory was told to vote last month in an election to choose delegates for a new...

AVINGER, Texas - A third Boy Scout has died from injuries suffered when a sailboat struck an overhanging power line on a lake east of Dallas, an official with Texas Parks & Wildlife said. The 11-y...

WASHINGTON - American consumers increased their borrowing at a slower pace in June, as the category that includes auto and student loans posted the smallest gain in a year. The Federal Reserve said Mo...

LENOX, Mass. - With Yo-Yo Ma’s help, a friend was able to bring his lost puppy home. The cellist on Sunday made an impassioned plea to nearly 14,000 concertgoers after a matinee at Tanglewood in...