Category Archives: World

EASTON, Pa. - A 14-year-old white student accused of making a racist video of a black student that was shared on social media will be prosecuted on charges of ethnic intimidation and harassment, a pro...

SYDNEY, Australia - A powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Fiji on Wednesday, prompting a brief tsunami warning for the Pacific island nation. There were no immediate reports of damage or injur...

WASHINGTON - Federal regulators have ordered credit-reporting agencies TransUnion and Equifax to pay about $23 million for falsely advertising that the credit scores they sell consumers are the same o...

NEW YORK - President-elect Donald Trump appeared to side with controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over U.S. intelligence officials Wednesday, citing the activist’s assertion that Russ...

WASHINGTON - Omarosa Manigault is getting hired. A memorable contestant in the first season of “The Apprentice,” Manigault is expected to join President-elect Donald Trump’s White Ho...

FLAT ROCK, Mich. - The auto industry’s relationship with President-elect Donald Trump took a dramatic turn Tuesday as Ford Motor Co. decided to shift investment dollars targeted for Mexico to th...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A newly elected West Virginia sheriff who admitted to authorities that he was a meth addict was charged Tuesday with stealing the drug from a police evidence storage area. A crimin...

AUSTIN, Texas - Abortion providers told a federal judge Tuesday that Texas’ attempt to require burial or cremation of fetal remains was “government interference” without public healt...

RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe is promising to veto legislation banning abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, saying such a “socially divisive” proposal hurts the state̵...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Faced with a copper shortage at the beginning of World War II, the U.S. Mint authorized experiments to make pennies from other metals, plastic and rubber. A Tennessee company m...