Category Archives: World

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - South Korean prosecutors have detained a former senior aide of President Park Geun-hye as they widen their investigation into a snowballing scandal centring on whether the ...

WASHINGTON - With voters set to choose a new president and Congress in six days, the Federal Reserve will likely keep a low profile when it ends a meeting Wednesday to try to ensure it doesn’t b...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The next president of the University of Missouri’s four-campus system, Mun Y. Choi, said Wednesday that student and faculty opinions “matter greatly” to him and...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - North Carolina’s process for challenging voters’ registration seems to harken to a bygone era when fewer safeguards were in place, a federal judge said Wednesday as s...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian rescue authorities on Thursday resumed a search for more than 40 people missing from the sinking of an overcrowded speedboat a day earlier. The search effort, which was...

CINCINNATI - Two University of Cincinnati police officers have testified in the murder trial of a former officer, saying that in 2015 when he was working a traffic stop they heard “squealing tir...

NEW YORK - Jury selection began Wednesday in the drug trial of two nephews of Venezuela’s first lady as a judge agreed to let jurors hear taped recordings of the defendants with U.S. government ...

HELENA, Ala. - A fire sparked by a huge explosion on a major gasoline pipeline continued burning Wednesday two days after the fatal blast as congressional Democrats sought an investigation of the Geor...

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. - A suburban New York police chief who orchestrated a department coverup after beating a handcuffed man for stealing embarrassing items from his SUV has been sentenced to nearly fo...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua - On bright-pink billboards across the Nicaraguan capital, President Daniel Ortega looms triumphantly over motorists ahead of next Sunday’s vote, where he’s considered a...