Category Archives: World

CHICAGO - The case of a 15-year-old Chicago girl who authorities say was raped while around 40 people watched on Facebook raises questions that have come up before in other attacks: What’s the o...

SAN FRANCISCO - AT&T, Verizon and several other major advertisers are suspending their marketing campaigns on Google’s YouTube site after discovering their brands have been appearing alongsi...

RICHMOND, Va. - Does it matter whether a prayer opening a government meeting is led by local clergy or an elected official? That’s a question a federal appeals court is wrestling with in a uniqu...

WASHINGTON - Declaring the Islamic State group’s destruction its top Middle East priority, the Trump administration on Wednesday urged coalition partners to contribute more to forces who are ret...

NEW YORK - Sears, a back-to-school shopping destination for generations of kids, has said that after years of losing money that there is “substantial doubt” it will be able to keep its doo...

LOS ANGELES - The police chief of Los Angeles, a city that is half Latino, found himself in the middle of the national immigration debate on Wednesday after saying there’s a correlation between ...

NEW YORK - An aging mobster who made headlines two years ago by beating charges in a legendary heist retold in the hit film “Goodfellas” was arrested Wednesday for a far less noteworthy cr...

LONDON - British lawmakers were the first to tell the nation, and the world, about a deadly terror attack Wednesday, with members of Parliament tweeting about events unfolding on their doorstep while ...

FREEHOLD, N.J. - A New Jersey appeals court has upheld the life sentence of a man who threw his 2-year-old daughter into a creek while she was strapped into her car seat and weighed down by a tire jac...

WESTON, Wis. - A police officer and three other people were shot and killed when a domestic dispute at a bank escalated into shootings at three locations in northern Wisconsin on Wednesday, investigat...