Category Archives: World

TOPEKA, Kan. - Kansas’ highest court on Thursday ordered the state to increase its spending on public schools, which could further complicate the state’s dire budget problems and increase ...

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia - A new movie in Slovakia is based on a real event that shocked the country: the kidnapping of late President Michal Kovac’s son during the rule of authoritarian Prime Minis...

PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia judge’s clash with the late actor Charlton Heston has indirectly led a U.S. appeals court to overturn a murder conviction. The victim’s family had created a b...

NEW YORK - The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 4:00 p.m. Banks and other financial companies led stocks lower on Wall Street a day after indexes soared to their latest r...

NEW YORK - The company behind Snapchat is trading sharply higher in its Wall Street debut. Snap Inc. jumped $7, or 41 per cent, to $24 a share. It had priced its initial public offering of 200 million...

AUSTIN, Texas - A federal judge on Thursday dismissed claims by the U.S. government that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fraudulently duped wealthy investors before taking office, giving the Republi...

WASHINGTON - The Latest on Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ talks with the Russian ambassador (all times local): 9:38 p.m. President Donald Trump is praising his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, ...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Global stocks mostly slipped Friday as investors awaited a speech by Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen later in the day. Markets in Hong Kong and Shanghai lost ground ahea...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Latest on a new entertainment complex opening at Elvis Presley’s Graceland (all times local): 10:15 a.m. A $45 million entertainment complex featuring exhibits and restauran...

BOSTON - Former President Barack Obama was named the 2017 winner of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award on Thursday for carrying on his fellow Democrat’s legacy. “President Kenned...