Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - If Donald Trump wants to know whether he was the subject of surveillance by the U.S. government, he may be uniquely positioned to get an answer. In a series of weekend tweets, the preside...

WASHINGTON - A powerful conservative backlash threatened to sink the new Republican health care bill Tuesday less than 24 hours after its launch, even as President Donald Trump and congressional leade...

AUSTIN, Texas - Texas has benefited from the North American Free Trade Agreement more than anywhere else in the U.S. and should defend the pact against attempts by Donald Trump’s administration ...

JACKSON, Miss. - A long-running feud over the Confederate battle emblem on the Mississippi flag is moving onto a new legal battlefield. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is schedule...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - A long-haul semitrailer driver from Minnesota thought he had lost his feline travelling companion for good when the cat jumped out of his truck at a rest stop in Ohio. But it was a j...

PHOENIX - A judge on Monday awarded $2.5 million to a military veteran who said that his now-terminal cancer would have been curable had the Veterans Administration hospital in Phoenix diagnosed it so...

LOS ANGELES - Hollywood dream team Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep are considering taking on some classified government documents in a feature film about the Pentagon Papers case. A sourc...

PITTSBURGH - A Roman Catholic diocese accused of a decadeslong coverup of child sex abuse by clergy has reached an agreement with federal prosecutors on reforms to prevent future abuse and to provide ...

BOGOTA - A corruption scandal that has spread across Latin America is inching closer to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos amid new evidence that suggests a Brazilian construction company paid $1 ...

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday clarified his confirmation hearing testimony to acknowledge having spoken twice last year with the Russian ambassador, but he said he stood by his...