Category Archives: World

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A major California-based drug wholesaler has agreed to pay $150 million to settle allegations that it failed to detect and report pharmacies’ suspicious orders of prescriptio...

SAN FRANCISCO - Composer John Adams’ “Girls of the Golden West” will be given its world premiere by the San Francisco Opera on Nov. 21. The work, with a libretto by Peter Sellars, po...

NEW YORK - “Hidden Figures,” the uplifting film about African-American mathematicians at NASA during the 1960s space race, led the North American box office for the second straight week, s...

DENVER - A Denver woman is among five people who died during a shooting at a Caribbean resort town, her brother said Tuesday. Robert Aaron Martinez told KMGH-TV that his sister, Alejandra Villanueva I...

WARREN, Mich. - Federal, state and county lawmakers are calling for a Detroit-area mayor to quit after unverified audio tapes surfaced purportedly featuring him making racist and sexist comments. Warr...

AUGUSTA, Maine - Republican Gov. Paul LePage on Tuesday offered an erroneous history lesson about racial segregation to a black Georgia congressman who risked his life to fight for civil rights, and h...

MIAMI - In a hotel room in suburban Miami, Luis Alberto Rodriguez wept when he heard that a government policy granting residency to Cubans who arrive on U.S. soil was ending. That means it could take ...

NEW YORK - Security barricades, protesters and a perpetual media encampment in and around Trump Tower since the election tarnished sales at Tiffany, the posh jeweler whose flagship store is just steps...

WASHINGTON - They line up near the Oval Office, down the hallway toward the Cabinet Room, with their spouses and young kids in tow. When it’s their turn, the White House staffers enter for a few...

BISMARCK, N.D. - The company building the Dakota Access oil pipeline wants a federal judge to block the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from launching a full environmental study of the $3.8 billion pipel...