Category Archives: World

CHICAGO - An autopsy by the Cook County medical examiner’s office has determined that a man killed by suburban Chicago police was shot five times, including once in the back. Donte Jones of Mayw...

CHARLESTON, S.C. - A man riding with a motorist who was fatally shot by a police officer while running away from a traffic stop testified Thursday that he doesn’t know why his friend tried to fl...

WASHINGTON - U.S. companies added the fewest jobs in four months in October, as construction and manufacturing firms continued to shed workers, a private survey says. Payroll provider ADP says busines...

MOSUL, Iraq - Iraqi special forces mopping up in territory seized in eastern Mosul killed eight Islamic State militants Wednesday as residents fled to safety from nearby areas and men shaved the beard...

GENEVA - Swiss police raided a mosque in a northern city on Wednesday, detaining eight people including an Ethiopian imam who allegedly called for the killing of Muslims who refused to participate in ...

TACOMA, Wash. - A Washington state mother is charged with giving her three small children heroin after a boy told investigators his mother used a needle to inject him and his sisters with “feel ...

DES MOINES, Iowa - The Latest on two officers in the Des Moines, Iowa, area who were killed in what authorities describe as ambush-style attacks (all times local): 6 p.m. A man says he had two recent ...

JOHANNESBURG - South African President Jacob Zuma faced growing calls to resign on Wednesday after the release of a state report that found possible evidence of corruption at top levels of a governmen...

CALAIS, France - French authorities bused all unaccompanied children - 1,616 of them - out of Calais’ sprawling migrant slum on Wednesday, taking them to special processing centres in one of the...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A showdown over shawarma has come to Dubai. A state-owned newspaper reported on Wednesday that nearly half of all shawarma stands in Dubai either will be shut down or hav...