Category Archives: World

MANILA, Philippines - Abu Sayyaf extremists on Saturday freed a Norwegian man kidnapped a year ago in the southern Philippines with two Canadians who were later beheaded and a Filipino woman who has b...

PHILADELPHIA - A “rambling” note expressing hatred for police was found after a man opened fire on a Philadelphia police officer then went on a shooting rampage, injuring a second officer,...

NEW YORK - Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee, who challenged theatrical convention in masterworks such as “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “A Delic...

DENVER - Police locked down a Denver hospital complex Friday amid reports that gunshots were fired and a man was seen carrying a rifle on the grounds. Officer Tyrone Campbell said a room-by-room searc...

PHOENIX - Arizona state Senate President Andy Biggs has won a recount in a razor-thin Republican primary in a suburban Phoenix congressional district. A judge certified Friday that Biggs won by 27 vot...

Actor Ben Stiller and supermodel Alek Wek are standing with refugees. Stiller and Wek visited the U.N. General Assembly on Friday to present Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with a petition bearing over ...

WASHINGTON - In a leaked 2015 email exchange, former Secretary of State Colin Powell discussed Israel’s nuclear weapons with a friend, saying the country has 200 warheads. Though Israel is widel...

WASHINGTON - Black voters reacted skeptically Friday to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s admission that he now believes the nation’s first black president was indeed born in ...

SOMERVILLE, N.J. - A judge has admitted he erred when sentencing a former “Melrose Place” actress for a deadly 2010 drunken-driving crash. NJ.com reports (http://bit.ly/2d0QKfo ) the judge...

NEW YORK - Some “Tonight Show” viewers weren’t laughing after GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump paid Jimmy Fallon a visit Thursday, and encountered nothing hairier from the NBC h...