Category Archives: World

ATLANTA - The so-called “Ferguson effect” - officers backing off of policing out of fear that their actions will be questioned after the fact - has been talked about but never really quant...

SANAA, Yemen - Heavy fighting continued to rage Wednesday near the strategic Red Sea strait of Bab al-Mandab in western Yemen, leaving dozens dead and wounded, security officials said. Since Monday, f...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley says dealing with lawmakers and serving as the state’s healer-in-chief through deadly natural disasters, a shooting massacre and other crises hav...

MIAMI - The looming presidency of Donald Trump has created a deep sense of uncertainty for inmates at Guantanamo on the 15th anniversary of the arrival of the first prisoners at the U.S. base in Cuba....

NEW YORK - Donald Trump says his business is “great,” and you’ll have to trust him on that. One of the few things an outsider can know for sure is that it’s a complex and opaqu...

PYONGYANG, Korea, Democratic People’s Republic Of - North Korea has been getting some pretty high praise lately from the stoner world. Marijuana news outlets including High Times, Merry Jane and...

MOSUL, Iraq - After weeks of airstrikes and artillery fire, Mosul’s al-Salam hospital is little more than a burnt-out shell. Retaken from the Islamic State group by Iraqi forces this month, the ...

LONDON - British children’s author Helen Bailey was plied with sedatives and likely suffocated by her fiance in a financially motivated killing, prosecutors said Wednesday. The body of 51-year-o...

MOSCOW - Blurry video of highly placed men engaging in sexual acts, audio recordings of influential figures profanely insulting their nominal allies - in Russia these appear enough that a special word...

WASHINGTON - Opponents to GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions’ selection as attorney general are calling him extremist, anti-immigration and insensitive to civil rights. But they’re refusing to call hi...