Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - Opponents of President Donald Trump’s travel ban sought Friday to rack up another legal victory against the measure, believing they have the administration on the defensive after a ...

BRUNSWICK, Ga. - After their mobile home burned last year, the best Michael Reeves and Chassity Carter could do was to park a camper trailer on the same lot in coastal Georgia and make it their new ho...

BERLIN - A Hamburg court has upheld an injunction prohibiting a German television comedian from repeating elements of a crude poem he wrote about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Comic Jan Boeh...

WASHINGTON - Republicans won Senate confirmation of President Donald Trump’s choice for health secretary early Friday in the testy chamber’s fourth consecutive brawl over Cabinet picks. Se...

CHICAGO - Four black people charged with a hate crime in an attack on a white mentally disabled man that was shown live on Facebook have pleaded not guilty. The Chicago Sun-Times reports (http://bit.l...

BEIJING - The head of the Catholic church in Hong Kong has expressed optimism that the Vatican and Beijing can overcome the controversial issue of bishop appointments lying at the core of a decades-lo...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Twelve people including young children were killed in landslides on the tourist island of Bali that wiped out several homes, Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency said Frid...

PARADIS, La. - One worker was missing and two were injured after an explosion sparked a fire at a Louisiana pipeline Thursday night, officials said. Authorities don’t yet know what caused the fi...

LIMA, Peru - A Peruvian judge on Thursday ordered the arrest of former President Alejandro Toledo on suspicion of taking bribes from a Brazilian construction company at the heart of a region-wide corr...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - The Trump administration on Thursday delayed what would be the first endangered designation for a bee species in the continental U.S., one day before it was to take effect. The ...