Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - On a night of nervous laughter and cathartic tears and applause, Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad” won the National Book Award for fiction and Democratic U.S. ...

CANBERRA, Australia - Australia’s prime minister beat other world leaders to an early call with President-elect Donald Trump by getting his cellphone number from Greg Norman, the golfing great s...

TOKYO - Japan’s leader will likely seek reassurances that President-elect Donald Trump remains committed to the U.S.-Japan security alliance when the two meet in New York on Thursday. Prime Mini...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Dwayne Andreas, the farmer’s son and college dropout who turned the grain-processing company Archer Daniels Midland into “the supermarket to the world,” then saw it...

MADISON, Wis. - Melvin Laird, a former Wisconsin congressman and U.S. defence secretary during years when President Nixon struggled to find a way to withdraw troops from an unpopular war in Vietnam, d...

The engineer of a commuter train that slammed into a station going double the 10 mph speed limit, killing a woman, suffered from undiagnosed sleep apnea, his lawyer said Wednesday, and a U.S. official...

DETROIT - Software designed to fix confusing gear shifters on 1.1 million Fiat Chrysler vehicles didn’t work on 29,000 of them. Now the owners are being asked to take the vehicles back to dealer...

LIMA, Peru - Officials say five people have died and seven people are missing as the result of a fire at a shopping mall next to the hotel that will host world leaders at this week’s Asian-Pacif...

SEATTLE - A man prosecutors say was motivated by anger and hatred was convicted Wednesday for fatally shooting a student and wounding two others at a small private Seattle university in 2014. A King C...

PHILADELPHIA - A judge on Wednesday denied Bill Cosby’s latest attempt to end his sexual assault case and rejected his request for competency testing of the 13 women who want to testify that the...