Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 4:00 p.m. Stocks closed little changed on Wall Street as investors looked over a big batch of earnings reports from U.S. c...

Matthew McConaughey says it’s time for Hollywood to “embrace and shake hands” with the fact that Donald Trump is president. The Oscar winner tells the BBC that Trump’s rise to ...

ABIDJAN, Cote d’Ivoire - The last-minute cancellation of a well-known music festival in Timbuktu that had drawn thousands of foreigners marks a missed opportunity to bring hope to a former touri...

WASHINGTON - Physician David Shulkin headed toward likely confirmation as President Donald Trump’s veterans affairs secretary after offering repeated assurances to sometimes skeptical senators t...

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump’s nomination of school choice activist Betsy DeVos as education secretary is on thin ice after two Republican senators vowed to vote against her. DeVos, a billionaire R...

WASHINGTON - As President Donald Trump presses for Senate confirmation of his Supreme Court nominee, Judge Neil Gorsuch, much of the initial, intense pressure will be on moderate Democrats, especially...

WASHINGTON - Declaring that religious freedom is “under threat,” President Donald Trump vowed Thursday to repeal a rarely enforced IRS rule that says pastors who endorse candidates from th...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - In an explicit warning to North Korea, U.S. Defence Secretary Jim Mattis on Friday said any use of nuclear weapons by the North on the United States or its allies would be ...

WASHINGTON - Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, another sign that U.S. workers are enjoying job security. THE NUMBERS: The Labor Department said Thursday that claims for jobl...

AVDIIVKA, Ukraine - Salvos of artillery shook eastern Ukraine on Thursday, the fifth day of escalated fighting between government troops and Russia-backed separatist rebels. Two Ukrainian troops were ...