Category Archives: World

SAO PAULO - Two dramas that grabbed global attention - the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and the removal of Brazil’s president - have now concluded. But Brazil is far from answering the biggest cha...

CHICAGO - Federal court records show that prosecutors are seeking a nine-month prison sentence for an Illinois man accused of hacking into email and electronic accounts of 30 celebrities and stealing ...

ATLANTA - A grand jury on Wednesday charged a white former Atlanta police officer with felony murder and other crimes in the death of an unarmed black man who was driving a car. The Fulton County gran...

FRANKFORT, Ky. - Retiring U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield says he will resign from office next week, triggering a special election that will give his successor a head start in Congress. The Republican congress...

LOS ANGELES - Naked Donald Trump could be yours. Celebrity auction house Julien’s Auctions said Wednesday that it will sell one of the life-sized, naked Trump statues artist collective INDECLINE...

WASHINGTON - Republican Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and John McCain of Arizona turned toward the general election Wednesday with GOP control of the Senate at risk, each facing lesser-known Democratic...

RALEIGH, N.C. - A divided U.S. Supreme Court refused Wednesday to reinstate North Carolina’s voter identification requirement and keep just 10 days of early in-person voting. The decision - a vi...

BATON ROUGE, La. - State lawmakers Wednesday lambasted the pace of mobile home setup for flood victims, saying it’s unacceptable that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has moved only one m...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal ban on the sale of guns to medical marijuana card holders does not violate the Second Amendment, a federal appeals court said Wednesday. The ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Co...

WASHINGTON - Health officials are strengthening warnings about the potentially fatal consequences of mixing prescription painkillers and sedatives like Xanax, saying the combination can lead to breath...