Category Archives: World

LUCKNOW, India - Police said Wednesday they had killed a man suspected of masterminding the bombing of a passenger train that injured eight people this week in India. An anti-terrorist police squad en...

AUGUSTA, Maine - A man who lived as a hermit in the Maine woods for nearly three decades before being arrested on theft and burglary charges is the subject of a new book. “The Stranger in the Wo...

HONOLULU - A federal judge in Honolulu said Wednesday that Hawaii can move forward with filing what would be the first lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban. U.S. Distr...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A pipeline spewing natural gas into Alaska’s Cook Inlet may have started leaking in December, two months before the leak was spotted from the air, according to a federal pipe...

PATERSON, N.J. - The mayor of Paterson directed three supervisors in the public works department and other municipal employees to perform work at a warehouse leased by his daughter and nephew while be...

WASHINGTON - Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin urged Congress on Tuesday to act quickly to extend a troubled program aimed at widening veterans’ access to private-sector health care, poin...

ZEBULON, N.C. - An 18-year-old man decapitated his mother and then walked out the front door of her house holding her head in his hand while wielding a knife in the other, authorities said. The suspec...

WASHINGTON - The Senate Armed Services Committee eased the path Tuesday for an active-duty general to become President Donald Trump’s new national security adviser weeks after controversy abrupt...

TOKYO - Revised data show Japan’s economy expanded at a slower than hoped for 1.2 per cent annual pace in the last quarter of 2016. The figure released Wednesday was slightly higher than the pre...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - In an abrupt about-face, Alaska marijuana regulators on Tuesday decided to once again attempt to write rules that would allow the onsite consumption of pot in retail stores. During...