Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - The newest member of Congress drew boos from some in his own Republican caucus on Wednesday as he called for withholding lawmakers’ pay unless they approve a balanced budget. Rep. G...

JERUSALEM - A group of renowned authors has published a collection of essays about Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, hoping their grim firsthand perspectives will draw attention to what they...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Elvis Guzman opened the letter, saw it was in English and took it to his lawyer for translation. The 59-year-old who sells recycled metal for a living figured it was another le...

BRENTWOOD, N.Y. - One student wrote how his parents were fed up with paying “war taxes” to street gangs in Honduras. Another told how he finally left that country after he was hit in the l...

BOSTON - Thinking of getting your kid the wildly popular fidget spinner? A consumer watchdog group is warning parents to think again. Boston-based World Against Toys Causing Harm said Wednesday in unv...

INDIANAPOLIS - The wife of a likely Senate candidate averages a 26.5-hour work week in her $240,000-a-year job doing legal consulting for an Indianapolis suburb, according to timesheets reviewed by Th...

BEIJING - Beer-soaked “booze cruises” down North Korea’s Taedong River. Scuba diving trips off the country’s eastern coast. Saint Patrick’s Day pub crawls in Pyongyang fe...

WASHINGTON - U.S. officials sought Wednesday to underscore for lawmakers the threat Russia posed to the 2016 vote for the White House, outlining efforts to hack into election systems in 21 states and ...

DES MOINES, Iowa - Iowa independents who helped Donald Trump win the presidency see last year’s tough-talking candidate as a thin-skinned chief executive and wish he’d show more grace. Una...

WALL, N.J. - President Donald Trump posted a Facebook message of thanks to two New Jersey high school students whose references to him were removed from their yearbook. Trump on Monday wrote that Wall...