Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - Free-thinking author and columnist Nat Hentoff has died. His son, Tom Hentoff, said his father died on Saturday from natural causes at his Manhattan apartment. He was 91. Hentoff was a Vill...

BAGHDAD - A wave of attacks in and around Baghdad on Sunday killed at least 23 people, the latest in a series of assaults blamed on the Islamic State group. A suicide car bomb ripped through a wholesa...

NEW YORK - Facing a week of high-profile tests for his administration-in-waiting, President-elect Donald Trump predicted Monday that all of his Cabinet picks would win Senate confirmation even as Demo...

A winter storm that spread ice and snow from Mississippi to Maine is leaving behind cold so bitter that businesses and schools are closing in the South because the region still hasn’t thawed. Fo...

ATLANTA - In a post-9-11 world, American airports have taken all sorts of steps to keep travellers safe. But significant vulnerabilities remain. The attack that killed five people Friday at the Fort L...

SAN DIEGO - SeaWorld San Diego is ending its long-running killer whale show after years of outcry and falling attendance prompted it to renounce theatrical orca displays. The show that featured killer...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - While investigators try to figure out the motive of an Iraq war veteran accused of killing five travellers and wounding six others at a busy international airport in Florida, t...

NEW YORK - The National Society of Film Critics has voted “Moonlight” the best picture of 2016. Society members who gathered Saturday at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Cult leader Charles Manson is back in a Central California prison after a reported hospital stay for an unspecified medical problem. Manson, 82, was at California State Prison, C...

HARGESIA, Somalia - A bomb explosion at a restaurant in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, killed three people and injured more than 16 others on Saturday, a Somali police officer said. The bomb is believ...