Category Archives: World

DECATURVILLE, Tenn. - A lawyer for one of three men charged with killing a Tennessee nursing student raised the possibility of a plea deal Wednesday. Michael Scholl, who represents Jason Autry, said i...

WASHINGTON - Some 95 per cent of the housekeepers and guest-room workers at President Donald Trump’s downtown Washington hotel have voted to unionize, setting up a new potential conflict of inte...

WASHINGTON - Other than a tweet, President Donald Trump hasn’t said how he’ll stop North Korea from threatening America with a nuclear weapon. And as his Pentagon chief visits key allies i...

PUNCAK, Indonesia - After getting death threats from Al-Shabab militants, Mohamed Dahir Saeed and his wife fled their native Somalia with plans to seek safety in Australia. They arrived in nearby Indo...

MOSUL, Iraq - First the tiny drones buzz overhead to observe Iraqi soldiers. Then, the Islamic State group’s flying machines return to drop a small explosive device to sow panic among security f...

WASHINGTON - If confirmed by the Senate to the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch would fill the seat of the man he seeks to emulate as a judge. He would be the first justice to serve alongside a colleague f...

NEW YORK - Federal regulators ordered hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons’ company RushCard to pay $13 million in fines and restitution related to a 2015 outage that cut off tens of thousands of its c...

WASHINGTON - A Senate panel is approving President Donald Trump’s choice of financier Steven Mnuchin as Treasury secretary. The approval by the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday came over ob...

LAS VEGAS - Marta Becket, a dancer and performance artist who spent decades presenting one-woman shows at a remote Mojave Desert community hall made famous as the Amargosa Opera House, has died. A dep...

NEW YORK - Jon Stewart has stopped by former Comedy Central colleague Stephen Colbert’s show to needle one of his favourite targets, President Donald Trump. The former “Daily Show” h...