Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - Some 80 years ago, the Nazis forced prominent German Jewish art gallery owner Max Stern to sell his family’s roughly 400-piece collection before he was exiled from his country. FBI ag...

NEW YORK - Broadway has welcomed a new theatre with a ribbon-cutting ceremony led by Jake Gyllenhaal. The “Brokeback Mountain” and “Nightcrawler” star was on hand Wednesday to ...

PHILADELPHIA - A federal judge on Wednesday urged NFL retirees to register for a concussion settlement that could cost the league $1 billion over 65 years. About 22,000 retirees are encouraged to get ...

BRUSSELS - Belgian police have detained 11 people in a series of anti-terror raids in the Brussels area relating to an investigation into the possible return of fighters from Syria. The federal prosec...

CAMP TAJI, Iraq - Forces fighting the Islamic State group should be able to retake the IS-held cities of Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria within the next six months, according to the top U.S. commande...

RALEIGH, N.C. - Six weeks into North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s term, the Democrat and Republican-controlled legislature are locked in a partisan power struggle, leaving a cloud of uncertainty o...

LONDON - Television entertainer Rolf Harris, who is serving a prison sentence for sexual abuse against young girls, has been cleared in Britain in another case. The 86-year-old artist-musician was con...

CHICAGO - Chris Kennedy, son of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, announced Wednesday he will run for Illinois governor in 2018, bringing the instant name recognition of his family’s political le...

TOKYO - Global shares were mostly higher Thursday though Japan’s benchmark skidded as the dollar held steady ahead of meetings between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Donald Trump. KEEPI...

NEW YORK - The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 11:45 a.m. Stocks are moving slightly lower on Wall Street, a day after the Nasdaq composite notched another record high. ...