Category Archives: World

MIAMI - The Latest on Hurricane Matthew and Tropical Storm Nicole (all times local): 6:30 a.m. Officials say some 3,000 people have already checked into shelters in Florida ahead of Hurricane Matthew&...

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio - Bill Clinton tried to avoid muddling his message again as he campaigned for his wife in battleground Ohio a day after he described President Barack Obama’s health care law a...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Police have upgraded charges against a Rhode Island mother who allegedly threw her 2-year-old twin boys out a first-floor window. The Providence Journal (http://bit.ly/2cQcyJG ) rep...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - A small square by the National Theater in Prague has been named after Vaclav Havel at a ceremony to mark what would have been the late president’s 80th birthday. Havel w...

TOPEKA, Kan. - Cash-strapped Kansas would drop monthly reporting on the state’s finances that has created political problems for Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s allies under a proposal out...

NEW YORK - Toys R Us has sold its FAO Schwarz brand to ThreeSixty Group, a company that designs and sells toys, home goods and other products. FAO Schwarz, founded in 1862, was known for its New York ...

DETROIT - U.S. safety regulators are investigating whether a recall of Ford F-150 pickup trucks for brake failures should be expanded to more model years. The probe covers about 282,000 pickups with 3...

Millions of Americans who bought individual health insurance outside the Affordable Care Act’s public exchanges may be leaving money on the table if they skip those marketplaces again in picking...

CARACAS, Venezuela - It was just a scraped knee. So 3-year-old Ashley Pacheco’s parents did what parents do: They gave her a hug, cleaned the wound twice with rubbing alcohol and thought no more...

BERLIN - German prosecutors on Tuesday dropped an investigation of a TV comic who wrote a crude poem about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, citing insufficient evidence that he committed any cr...