Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has appealed a judge’s order temporarily blocking President Donald Trump’s refugee and immigration ban, saying it’s the “sovereign prerogati...

SEATTLE - A U.S. judge on Friday imposed a nationwide hold on President Donald Trump’s ban on travellers and immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries, siding with two states that had...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A North Carolina fifth-grade teacher who designed unique and lively greetings for each of his students has become an internet sensation. Video aired by WCNC-TV in Charlotte (http://b...

JUNEAU, Alaska - Columbus Day would be known as Indigenous Peoples Day in Alaska under legislation that passed the state House Friday. House Bill 78, from Democratic Rep. Dean Westlake, passed 31-7. I...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Muslim convert convicted of threatening the creators of the “South Park” cartoon series for episodes he deemed blasphemous has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for vio...

Atlanta police admit they backfired with a tweet urging people not to celebrate Beyonce’s pregnancy with celebratory gunfire. Following the singer’s announcement Wednesday that she’s...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - The U.S. Navy has officially decommissioned the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. During Friday’s ceremony at a Newport News shipyard, the USS Enterprise ...

A heavily travelled bridge linking Pennsylvania and New Jersey that has a fractured steel truss is expected to remain closed for at least two more months, Pennsylvania Turnpike officials said Friday. ...

ST. LOUIS - Ferguson, Missouri, has dropped its appeal of a federal jury’s $3 million award to survivors of a naked, unarmed man who died after a police officer repeatedly shocked him with a stu...

LANSING, Mich. - Social Security numbers and other personal information of up to 1.9 million Michigan workers may have been compromised, the state said Friday. The problem stemmed from a software upda...