Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - The White House on Friday defended chief of staff Reince Priebus against accusations he breached a government firewall when he asked FBI Director James Comey to publicly dispute media rep...

OXON HILL, Md. - President Donald Trump’s vice-president and top aides delivered one overriding message Thursday to the thousands of conservative activists gathered for their annual conference o...

SAN FRANCISCO - It took 16 firefighters to rescue a precariously perched pooch that had wandered off the side of a bluff at a popular San Francisco oceanside park. San Francisco Fire Department spokes...

WASHINGTON - Officials in Washington state, where recreational marijuana is legal, vow to fight any federal crackdown on the nascent industry after White House spokesman Sean Spicer said they should e...

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. - Oprah Winfrey has agreed to will give commencement speeches at colleges in Massachusetts and New York. Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and Skidmore College in Saratog...

OLATHE, Kan. - A man accused of opening fire in a crowded suburban Kansas City bar, killing one man and injuring two others in an attack that some witnesses said was racially motivated, was charged Th...

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions signalled Thursday his strong support for the federal government’s continued use of private prisons, reversing an Obama administration directive to ph...

NEW YORK - Beyonce, who is pregnant with twins, will not perform at Coachella this year, but will headline the festival in 2018. In a statement to The Associated Press on Thursday, Beyonce’s Par...

BERLIN - Fritz Koenig, a German sculptor whose work “The Sphere” became a symbol of resilience after the 9-11 attacks in New York, has died. He was 92. Koenig, a well-known artist thanks t...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Officials in charge of fixing up the Memphis home where Aretha Franklin was born say they are working with the DIY Network to move the crumbling structure to a safer location and make...