Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Monday compared slavery to immigration in the United States, a view that experts on slavery called a misleading read on American hist...

NEW YORK - George Stephanopoulos’ “Good Morning America” interview with White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Monday is an instant milestone in the hostile relationship b...

SANTA ANA, Calif. - An Afghan family of five who travelled to the United States on special visas and were detained by immigration officials at the Los Angeles airport were released from custody, accor...

BARRINGTON, R.I. - Ninety-seven-year-old twins Jean Young Haley and Martha Young Williams left the world as they entered it: together. The two women died over the weekend in freezing temperatures afte...

NEW YORK - Robert Osborne, the genial face of Turner Classic Movies and a walking encyclopedia of classic Hollywood, has died. He was 84. Jennifer Dorian, general manager of TCM, announced OsborneR...

AUSTIN, Texas - A North Carolina-style “bathroom bill” targeting transgender people faces big hurdles in Texas as Republican supporters stood with church leaders and others Monday to ratch...

PANAMA CITY - Former Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega is in the hospital to undergo surgery Tuesday to remove a benign tumour from his brain. Thays Noriega, one of his daughters, made the announcem...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Mushers pumped their fists and high-fived fans Monday as they set out one-by-one on the world’s most famous sled dog race, a nearly 1,000-mile trek through the grueling Alask...

NEWARK, N.J. - The former head of one of the nation’s most powerful transportation agencies and a longtime mentor to Gov. Chris Christie was sentenced Monday to four years’ probation and h...

NEW YORK - U.S. stocks finished lower Monday for the second time in the last three trading days. Banks gave back some of their recent gains after a jump in interest rates last week sent them sharply h...