Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - U.S. banks’ earnings in the July-September period jumped nearly 13 per cent from a year earlier as continued growth in lending fueled interest income. The data issued Tuesday by the...

WASHINGTON - U.S. consumer confidence rebounded this month to the highest level in more than nine years as Americans appeared unfazed by a tumultuous election campaign. The Conference Board says its c...

WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that anyone who burns an American flag should face unspecified “consequences,” such as jail or a loss of citizenship. But the Supreme...

FORT PIERCE, Fla. - Rapper Kodak Black has been extradited to South Carolina to answer to a charge of criminal sexual conduct after serving a drug case sentence in Florida. The Florida Sun Sentinel re...

BANGKOK - Thailand’s Queen Sirikit, widow of recently deceased King Bhumibol Adulyadej, has recovered from a fever and lung infection and has left a hospital and returned to Chitralada Palace in...

BISMARCK, N.D. - Neil Young is calling on President Barack Obama “to step in and end” what he calls the “violence” against protesters demonstrating against an oil pipeline bein...

WASHINGTON - U.S. home prices have fully recovered from their steep plunge during the housing bust and Great Recession, according to a private measure. The Standard & Poor’s CoreLogic Case-S...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. economy in the third quarter grew at the fastest pace in two years, with a revised report showing stronger consumer spending than first estimated. The gross domestic product, the...

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territory - President Mahmoud Abbas’ long-dominant Fatah movement on Tuesday opened a conference that is expected to cement the rule of the 81-year-old Palestinian leader a...

ALBANY, N.Y. - The Federal Highway Administration isn’t showing any “Love” for some tourism signs along New York state highways. Officials with the FHA and the New York state Departm...