Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - From Montana to West Virginia, the nation’s most vulnerable Senate Democrats are avoiding town hall meetings as their Republican counterparts get pummeled by an energized electorate f...

NEW YORK - The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 4:00 p.m. A late burst of buying erased losses in U.S. indexes and left the Dow Jones industrial average with its 11th str...

WASHINGTON - Both the transgender teen who sued to use a boys’ bathroom and the Virginia school board that won’t let him still want the Supreme Court to issue a definitive ruling in their ...

DURHAM, N.C. - Novelist Michael Peterson agreed to a plea deal Friday that enables him to maintain his innocence even as he acknowledges prosecutors have enough evidence to convict him of manslaughter...

SOUTH OF MOSUL, Iraq - U.S. Army Lt. Col. James Browning juggled phone calls on an overstuffed sofa in a small village south of Mosul. His counterparts in the Iraqi army’s 9th Division were push...

NEW YORK - U.S. stocks are declining Friday morning as investors again look for safer places to put their money. Business technology company Hewlett Packard Enterprises is falling after it announced w...

Tommy Chong has a message for those fearing a crackdown on recreational marijuana use: Don’t worry. Stay High. Chong shot to fame in the 1970s alongside Cheech Marin as the stoner comedy duo Che...

TOKYO - It was not business as usual for some workers in Japan on Friday. As the clock reached 3 p.m., about 100 office workers raised champagne glasses in a cafe in the middle of Tokyo’s centra...

WASHINGTON - Americans bought more new homes in January after a steep fall-off the previous month, a sign the housing market is healthy despite higher mortgage rates. New home sales rose 3.7 per cent ...

TEHRAN, Iran - An Oscar-nominated Iranian director has announced two prominent Iranian Americans will be representing him and his film “The Salesman” at the upcoming Oscars ceremony, becau...