Category Archives: World

MANILA, Philippines - A Filipino fisherman in western Palawan island has found possibly the world’s biggest pearl, but he didn’t know it. For 10 years, the 34-kilogram (75-pound) pearl was...

PESCARA DEL TRONTO, Italy - As the search for survivors ground on, Premier Matteo Renzi pledged new money and measures Thursday to rebuild quake-devastated central Italy amid mounting soul-searching o...

WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton defended her family’s charitable foundation on Wednesday against criticism from Donald Trump, saying it had provided more transparency than her Republican rival̵...

AUSTIN, Texas - Hundreds of University of Texas students waved sex toys at a campus rally during the first day of classes, protesting a new state law that allows concealed handguns in college classroo...

PANA, Thailand - To stop wild elephants from rampaging through their produce, farmers in Thailand put up electric fences, set off firecrackers and even switched their crops from pineapples to pumpkins...

TAMPA, Fla. - Visiting a battleground state he can’t afford to lose, Donald Trump promised Hispanics “a much better life” Wednesday in a Florida speech that continued his recent effo...

LAKE ARTHUR, La. - Gov. John Bel Edwards flew across south Louisiana Thursday, surveying flood damage from a helicopter and talking with people in a city that flooded and in one where a heroic effort ...

ATLANTA - A judge sentenced a Georgia man to 40 years in prison Wednesday for throwing scalding water on a gay couple sleeping in an apartment, leaving them with severe burns that required surgery. Ju...

MOBILE, Ala. - A judge refused to set bond Wednesday for a Mississippi man accused of killing five people and an unborn child who were slain one by one with an axe and shot inside a home in rural Alab...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California lawmakers voted Wednesday to extend the state’s landmark climate change law - the most aggressive in the nation - by another 10 years, resisting fierce opposition...