Category Archives: World

TEHRAN, Iran - In a climactic battle at sea, an Iranian commander orders his forces to open fire on a much larger U.S. fleet, obliterating it with a barrage of rockets, some of which tear American fla...

HANOI, Vietnam - Japan’s emperor expressed sympathy to the Vietnamese families abandoned by Japanese soldiers after World War II during his landmark visit to the Communist country. Akihito and E...

LOS ANGELES - Former President George W. Bush on Wednesday warned against an “isolationist tendency” in the U.S. that he called dangerous to national security, at a time when the current p...

DENVER - Colorado is moving ahead with a first-in-the-nation attempt to allow marijuana clubs. But the measure that passed a Republican state Senate committee Wednesday evening doesn’t go as far...

FRANKFURT - Official figures are expected to show inflation in the 19-country eurozone rose again in February - a development that would further galvanize critics of the European Central Bank’s ...

MADISON, Wis. - Motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson, which President Donald Trump singled out Tuesday when discussing foreign trade barriers, warned earlier this year against responding to such restricti...

BEIJING - Lawyer Cheng Hai has an itemized list of compensation demands from Beijing authorities over the city’s smog: 65 yuan ($9) for having to buy face masks, 100 yuan ($15) for seeing a doct...

LOS ANGELES - Angels Flight, LA’s beloved little railroad, had its cameo in the hit musical “La La Land” and now it’s almost ready for its close-up. The narrow-gauge railroad t...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn reached a deal Wednesday to sell the shuttered Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City to Hard Rock International and two New Jersey investors. Th...

WASHINGTON - Under intensifying pressure, Attorney General Jeff Sessions abruptly agreed Thursday to recuse himself from any investigation into Russian meddling in America’s 2016 presidential el...