Category Archives: World

LONDON - Britain’s unelected House of Lords on Wednesday handed the government a stinging - though likely temporary - defeat on its plans to leave the European Union, resolving that EU citizens ...

CHICAGO - The televised moment moved a nation: A grief-stricken widow clasping her hands and looking skyward, tears streaming down her face as the nation’s lawmakers and president delivered a de...

ELKHART, Ind. - An Indiana woman told detectives she smothered her two young children to death because she feared they would be tortured by members of a drug cartel, newly-released documents show. Amb...

WASHINGTON - Most mornings, President Donald Trump gathers business leaders, union executives or others at the White House for made-for-television meetings meant to project the image of a can-do chief...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s budget would eliminate a $600 million-plus state-of-the-art Coast Guard cutter that’s a priority of the powerful Republican chairman of the Senate App...

NEW YORK - President Donald Trump’s first major address to the Congress and the nation was seen by an estimated 47.4 million people. The Nielsen company said Wednesday that Trump’s audienc...

BISMARCK, N.D. - North Dakota stands to gain more than $110 million annually in tax revenue after oil begins coursing through the Dakota Access pipeline, an analysis by The Associated Press shows. The...

PORTLAND, Ore. - Four children died in a house fire Wednesday in an Oregon timber town and their mother, her husband and a 13-year-old sibling were critically injured, a sheriff’s official said....

ALBANY, N.Y. - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is travelling to Israel in a gesture of solidarity spurred by acts of anti-Semitism at Jewish cemeteries, college campuses and community centres across the na...

INDIANAPOLIS - Republican legislative leaders in Indiana are warning that repealing the Affordable Care Act could unravel a program for poor residents that Vice-President Mike Pence implemented as gov...