Category Archives: World

BALTIMORE - Most of Maryland’s top prosecutors are opposing a new trial granted to a man whose murder conviction was examined in the “Serial” podcast. The Baltimore Sun reports (http...

WASHINGTON - U.S. employers added 156,000 jobs in September, a decent gain that reflects a steady economy but also a sign that hiring has slowed from its robust pace last year. The unemployment rate t...

NEW YORK - Fox News Channel colleagues Sean Hannity and Megyn Kelly are friends again. Kelly tweeted a picture of her and Hannity together on the set of Kelly’s show Thursday night, with a note,...

BOGOTA - By winning the Nobel Peace Prize, President Juan Manuel Santos got a big boost Friday in his efforts to save an agreement seeking to end Colombia’s half-century conflict. The prize, ann...

The Latest on Hurricane Matthew (all times local): 11:05 a.m. The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Matthew has made landfall. The centre said in a news release Saturday morning that the storm&...

SANDOWN, N.H. - It had the trappings of a town hall debate. There was a moderator. The audience members had questions. There was a two-minute countdown clock for answers. And Donald Trump carried a mi...

QUETTA, Pakistan - Two bombs struck a passenger train minutes apart in southwest Pakistan on Friday, killing at least six people and wounding 19, officials said. The first bomb exploded on the train a...

WASHINGTON - Monica Lewinsky tends to avoid politics these days, after becoming instantly famous nearly 20 years ago as the White House intern who had an affair with President Bill Clinton. Unfortunat...

LONDON - The British pound endured one of its biggest falls ever on Friday - with some in the markets blaming trading robots or a fat-fingered typo for sending the currency down a precipitous 6 per ce...

PHOENIX - A Colorado woman has completed an 82-mile swim across Lake Powell that took her 56 hours. Sarah Thomas of Conifer, Colo., tells The Associated Press she was exhausted and hungry after comple...