Category Archives: World

LAS VEGAS - A little glitz and a sampling of a Las Vegas Strip dance and acrobatic performance are marking the arrival of the first direct commercial airline flight from mainland China to Las Vegas. A...

NEW YORK - Investors made a small move back to safer assets Friday afternoon after the government’s November jobs report showed continued hiring, but weak wages. Indexes finished little changed ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - South American nations say they have suspended Venezuela from the Mercosur trade group over its failure to comply with its commitments when it joined the group in 2012. Argen...

PORTLAND, Ore. - A 4-year-old macaw named “Bird” is an instant celebrity after appearing in a posed booking mug shot in Oregon with his unfortunate owner. Craig Buckner left Bird in a tree...

WASHINGTON - Breaking once more from presidential custom, Donald Trump is turning to a military man to steer the U.S. military, choosing retired Gen. James Mattis, who will be the first career officer...

WASHINGTON - When Donald Trump named his Treasury secretary, Teena Colebrook felt her heart sink. She had voted for the president-elect on the belief that he would knock the moneyed elites from their ...

BERLIN - The wrought iron gate to the Nazis’ Dachau concentration camp that was stolen two years ago, prompting an international outcry, appears to have been found in western Norway, police said...

PITTSBURGH - The slow recovery of the U.S. economy is continuing to keep the cost of Christmas - or at least the gifts listed in “The Twelve Days of Christmas” - from spiraling out of cont...

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia - No more Melania Trump honey, cakes, shoes and underwear for Slovenians. The future U.S. first lady has hired a law firm in her native country to protect her name and image from b...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Attorneys for a Florida woman accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill her husband have asked for a change of venue. Attorney Brian Claypool told Judge Glenn Kelley on Frida...