Category Archives: World

CHAMONIX, France - Dozens of tourists, including three children, were rescued Friday after being trapped overnight in cable cars dangling above the slopes of Mont Blanc in the Alps. Their return to la...

WASHINGTON - Get ready: Voting in the 2016 election is now underway. Advance voting begins Friday in North Carolina, the first of 37 states that will allow balloting by mail for any reason or in perso...

WASHINGTON - Since returning from their summer recess, House conservatives have wasted no time showing just how tough they can make life for Speaker Paul Ryan - and for Democrat Hillary Clinton, if sh...

NOME, Alaska - The giant luxury cruise liner was anchored just off Nome, too hulking to use the Bering Sea community’s docks on its inaugural visit. Instead, its more than 900 passengers piled i...

NEAR THE STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION, N.D. - An American Indian tribe’s attempt to halt construction of an oil pipeline near its North Dakota reservation failed in federal court Friday, but ...

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia - European creditors urged the Greek government Friday to speed up the implementation of a series of economic reforms so it can get its hands on the next batch of bailout cash bef...

BEIJING - Friday marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Mao Zedong, who founded the People’s Republic of China in 1949 and ran it virtually uncontested until his death on Sept. 9, 1976. Whil...

SALT LAKE CITY - A teenager shot with a pellet-type gun after a homecoming pep rally at a suburban Salt Lake City high school has been released from the hospital after getting stitches. Granite School...

PHILADELPHIA - Bill Cosby has long preached the gospel of personal responsibility to fellow blacks, irritating those who fault racism for holding the community back. But now lawyers for the 79-year-ol...

NEW YORK - The childhood home in New York City of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is set to be auctioned and the opening bid is $849,000. Newsday reports (http://nwsdy.li/2c2J4ZF ) the Qu...