Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - Melania Trump on Wednesday highlighted her interest in empowering women and girls along with the administration’s focus on school choice by touring a girls-only charter school with ...

NEW YORK - A body-camera maker is offering some U.S. police departments a chance to try out their goods for a year. But if they decide to keep the cameras, or happen to damage them, they’ll have...

TOPEKA, Kan. - The Kansas House approved a bill that would prohibit the state from awarding contracts to companies that are participating in any boycott of Israel. The House passed the measure Wednesd...

MEXICO CITY - In a major embarrassment for Mexican law enforcement, U.S. prosecutors said in documents made public Wednesday that the commander of a Mexican police intelligence-sharing unit was passin...

MOORESVILLE, N.C. - North Carolina church leaders have told a Boy Scout troop and Cub Scout pack they’re no longer welcome to use their facilities as a home base after the Boy Scouts of America ...

WASHINGTON - A once-powerful Mexican drug cartel leader and associate of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been sentenced to life in a U.S. prison. Alfredo Beltran Leyva, 46, was sentenced Wed...

CHICAGO - A ruling by a U.S. appeals court in Chicago reopens the question of whether the 1964 Civil Rights Act’s protections apply to LGBT workers in the same way they bar discrimination based ...

PIERRE, S.D. - The South Dakota Supreme Court has rejected a move by ABC to avoid trial in a defamation lawsuit over the television network’s reports on a beef product that critics dubbed “...

NEW YORK - The rapid defection of advertisers this week from Bill O’Reilly’s show because of sexual harassment allegations raises what once seemed an unthinkable question: Can O’Reil...

NEW YORK - More advertisers fled Bill O’Reilly’s show on Wednesday, with drugmaker Pfizer and real estate company Coldwell Banker among the latest to distance themselves. The snowball effe...