Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - Fewer Americans sought unemployment aid last week, the latest sign that companies are holding onto their workers. THE NUMBERS: The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly applications ...

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey’s state-run news agency says a prosecutor is seeking a life term in prison for author and columnist Asli Erdogan, whom he accuses of membership in an armed terror organiz...

NEW YORK - An estimated 71.4 million Americans watched returns electing Republican Donald Trump the next president on prime-time television Tuesday, narrowly missing a record set eight years ago on th...

MOSCOW - A top Russian diplomat and Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said Thursday that Russian experts were in contact with some members of President-elect Donald Trump’s staff during the presi...

HOWELL TOWNSHIP, N.J. - A judge has told a couple accused of having 276 dogs in their bi-level New Jersey home that they have until next week to plead guilty or else face a trial on more than 550 anim...

DIRAZ, Bahrain - In the small town of Diraz, just a few miles from where Prince Charles met with Bahrain’s royals, there is graffiti demanding the death of the Gulf island’s monarch, armou...

WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump took a triumphant tour of the nation’s capital Thursday, holding a cordial White House meeting with President Barack Obama, sketching out priorities wit...

LONDON - The latest on world reaction to the U.S. presidential election (all times local): 9:45 p.m. British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson says that “it’s time that we snapped out of the ...

WASHINGTON - The Latest on the U.S. presidential transition (all times EST): 9:45 p.m. President-elect Donald Trump is back on Twitter, taking on the protesters who have gathered in cities across the ...

BEIJING - A top Chinese police official was elected president of Interpol on Thursday, setting off alarm bells among rights advocates over abuses and a lack of transparency within China’s legal ...