Category Archives: World

ALBANY, N.Y. - New York Democrats aren’t backing down from their plan to get at Donald Trump’s tax records. The Senate minority on Tuesday attempted unsuccessfully to force a vote in the R...

JUNEAU, Alaska - A conservative state lawmaker has successfully tacked an anti-abortion message onto an otherwise innocuous resolution in the Alaska House aimed at raising awareness about sexual assau...

CARSON CITY, Nev. - A Nevada state lawmaker and backers of a proposal to control insulin prices on Tuesday withdrew a key provision of the bill that would have made the state the first in the U.S. to ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Uruguay began registering people Tuesday who want to legally buy marijuana at pharmacies as part of the world’s first government-regulated national marketplace for pot....

WASHINGTON - The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank , has ousted its leader after a power struggle. The Washington non-profit’s board of trustees unanimously asked for and received t...

BALCH SPRINGS, Texas - In a story May 3 about the Dallas suburb where a white police officer shot and killed a black teenager, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a white officer in North C...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - A murder case against a former Northern Arizona University student in a 2015 shooting that killed one person and wounded three others ended in a mistrial Tuesday after a jury deadlo...

MIAMI - Jeb Bush says he is optimistic he can close a deal to buy the Miami Marlins despite stiff competition, and partner Derek Jeter would take charge of baseball operations. Baseball Commissioner R...

BATON ROUGE, La. - The white police officer who shot a black man to death outside of a convenience store pointed a gun at the man’s head and threatened to shoot him before they wrestled on the g...

MILWAUKEE - A lengthy inquest into the dehydration death of a Milwaukee inmate has raised troubling questions about how Sheriff David Clarke manages the county jail, just as the White House is said to...