Category Archives: World

LOS ANGELES - Amanda Knox, the American exchange student convicted and later cleared of a murder in Italy, is offering her support to a Massachusetts woman convicted of manslaughter for encouraging he...

A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week. None of these stories are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked ...

CANTON, Miss. - Workers at a Nissan auto assembly plant in Mississippi are voting on whether they want the United Auto Workers union to bargain for them. Voting among roughly 3,700 production workers ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - At least two people were killed in an apparent car bomb blast on a major street in Somalia’s capital Friday evening, police said, just hours after the U.S. military confirme...

MIAMI - Maria Elena Salinas, one of the most recognizable and respected journalists in Spanish-language media in the U.S., is leaving Univision’s nightly newscast at the end of the year. The anc...

NEW YORK - Former New York Knicks star Charles Oakley has reached a deal with prosecutors who charged him with striking a security guard at Madison Square Garden. The Daily News (http://nydn.us/2wrXJ5...

DETROIT - A German Volkswagen executive pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy and fraud charges in Detroit in a scheme to cheat emission rules on nearly 600,000 diesel vehicles. Shackled at the wrists a...

KIGALI, Rwanda - Rwanda’s long-time president has 99 per cent support with nearly half the ballots counted in Friday’s presidential election, according to preliminary results from a vote h...

MANILA, Philippines - Alarm over North Korea’s missile tests, a tentative step to temper South China Sea disputes, and unease over a disastrous siege by pro-Islamic State group militants will gr...

BALTIMORE - Last week, the number of homicides in Baltimore surpassed 200, making 2017 a record-setting year for violence on the city’s streets. As the body count rises, the police department ha...