Category Archives: World

LOS ANGELES - “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” soared to the top of the weekend box office as expected, scoring the second-best December opening ever with $155 million in estimated ticket sa...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - President Barack Obama has signed legislation that bestows one of the nation’s highest civilian awards on veterans of the American World War II spy agency founded by a New Yorker...

HOUSTON - A nearly four-day ban on drinking the water in Corpus Christi, Texas, was lifted on Sunday after test results showed no contamination due to a chemical leak, the city’s mayor announced...

As each Cabinet announcement draws fresh criticism of the wealth, connections or opinions of Donald Trump’s latest appointees, many Americans who voted for him say the president-elect is doing w...

BAGHDAD - A militia backed by the Iraqi government killed suspected Islamic State fighters captured during the operation to retake Mosul, Human Rights Watch said Sunday. The Hashed al-Jabour militia, ...

KEY WEST, Fla. - Three groups of Cuban migrants totalling 51 people have landed in the Florida Keys. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said the groups landed Sunday between 5:30 a.m. and 7:40 a...

ROME - Recently drubbed by voters, Italian ex-Premier Matteo Renzi on Sunday exhorted his Democratic Party to be more humble and in synch with citizens as he eyes elections widely expected in 2017. Re...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California is installing nearly 1,000 sophisticated metal detectors, scanners and secret security cameras at its prisons in its latest attempt to thwart the smuggling of cellphone...

PARIS - The man suspected of killing three Kurdish activists in Paris in 2013 has died from brain disease, Paris prosecutors said Sunday. Omer Guney’s trial was scheduled next month. His death o...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Saudi King Salman and others Sunday to discuss the war in Yemen, a visit to the kingdom that likely will be his last as America’s to...