Category Archives: World

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. - Teaching current events in the age of Donald Trump has become fraught with peril for some educators who have interjected their personal political beliefs into the classroom. A Ne...

ROCKLAND, Maine - Maine’s booming lobster industry has a big problem involving a little fish. The state’s iconic lobster fishery is healthy, having set records for volume and value in 2016...

TOLEDO, Ohio - A Great Lakes cleanup program that may be on the Trump administration’s chopping block has plunked money into fighting Lake Erie’s toxic algae and putting new life into Ohio...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - When Colorado expanded Medicaid coverage under former President Barack Obama’s health care law, the largest provider in the Denver region hired more than 250 employees an...

MONTPELIER, Vt. - This year is shaping up to be another big Lyme disease season in Vermont. For the past decade, tick-borne Lyme disease has been on the rise in New England. When the Vermont Health De...

BEIJING - China’s ruling Communist Party is hardening its rhetoric on Islam, with top officials making repeated warnings about the spectre of global religious extremism seeping into the country ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Just days away from an election in which he hopes to secure a third term, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte didn’t want to be seen as backing down to Turkish threats. Rutt...

BEIRUT - An al-Qaida-linked group claimed responsibility Sunday for twin blasts near holy shrines frequented by Shiites in the Syrian capital Damascus that killed at least 40 people as a suspected air...

JERUSALEM - Richard Gere has lashed out at Israel over its settlements in territory that Palestinians want for a state. The “Pretty Woman” star came to Jerusalem for the local premiere of ...

DUBLIN - The senior Protestant politician in Northern Ireland left the door open Sunday for stepping aside as part of a potential deal to revive the British territory’s unity government with Cat...