Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - U.S. economic growth is expected to accelerate this year and next, yet remain modest, even if President Trump’s promised tax cuts and infrastructure spending are implemented, a surv...

SEATTLE - Sixteen months after he declared a state of emergency on homelessness, Seattle’s mayor is asking voters in this liberal, affluent city for $55 million a year in new taxes to fight the ...

TOWNSVILLE, Australia - Thousands of people began evacuating low-lying areas of Australia’s tropical northeast on Monday as a powerful cyclone bore down on the coast. Cyclone Debbie was expected...

BEIJING - At first blush, the plight of former Chinese police official Zhao Liping might not win much sympathy. When a court sentenced Zhao, who’d wielded enormous power over his fellow citizens...

BERLIN - As polling stations opened Monday in Germany, acrimony has been rising among the Turks here whose votes are crucial in the tight race over whether to expand the powers of Turkish President Re...

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. - The Maid of the Mist tour boats at Niagara Falls are being readied for their earliest launch ever. The famed boats that bring passengers from the New York shore to the base of th...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is establishing a new White House office run by his son-in-law that will seek to overhaul government functions using ideas from the business sector. White House spo...

NASHVILLE - The Tennessee Senate passed a resolution Monday that would allow the body of former President James K. Polk to be exhumed and moved to a fourth resting place. Polk and his wife, Sarah, are...

LONDON - Tim Barlow pushes a green stamp onto the edge of an unfinished plate, leaving behind the words “Made in England.” It’s still a piece of unglazed grey clay, a far cry from th...

HAVANA - Fidel Castro’s government sent the Rev. Juan Francisco Naranjo to two years of work camp in the 1960s for preaching the Gospel in a Cuba where atheism was law and the faithful were view...