Category Archives: World

MOSCOW - As the Soviet Union was breaking up 25 years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev expected the United States and its Western allies to provide vital aid. The former Soviet president thinks their failure to...

NEW YORK - Christie’s auction house has been accused in a lawsuit of using a computer program to scrape research, images and price information from a rival’s website and then reselling tha...

MOBILE, Ala. - Police in one Alabama city said they helped stage a man’s arrest so that he could really just kneel down and propose to his terrified girlfriend. With the help of two officers, Da...

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump is holding firm to his skepticism of the huge intelligence apparatus he’s about to inherit, doubting the CIA conclusion that Russia tried to hack its way into tipping t...

STOCKHOLM - Reindeer living on the Arctic island of Svalbard are getting smaller - and scientists say climate change may be the cause. Scientists from Britain and Norway have found that adult Svalbard...

NEW YORK - President-elect Donald Trump on Monday cancelled the only news conference he has scheduled since his election, continuing to communicate with the public via Twitter and carefully curated, o...

OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma plans to force hospitals, nursing homes, restaurants and public schools to post signs inside public restrooms directing pregnant women where to receive services as part of an ...

WASHINGTON - The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times EST): 11:45 p.m. Donald Trump says he is leaving his businesses before Jan. 20 so he can “focus full time” on being presi...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - The U.S. government on Monday declassified a second set of records relating to human rights abuses committed during Argentina’s 1976-1983 dictatorship. The release is p...

DENVER - A federal judge dealt a severe setback Monday to a longshot plan to deny Donald Trump the presidency through the Electoral College, refusing to suspend a Colorado law requiring the state̵...