Category Archives: World

Philadelphia is urging residents not to swim in dumpsters after a rented trash bin was filled with fire hydrant water and transformed into a pool. The online news site Billy Penn first reported the sh...

BATON ROUGE, La. - Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson sued the city of Baton Rouge and police officials Thursday, saying officers responded in a “militarized and aggressive manner”...

CAIRO - Egypt’s military said on Thursday that the leader of the Islamic State’s affiliate has been killed in the Sinai Peninsula, along with several key aides and 45 other members of the ...

LONDON - Dozens of staff, allies and advisers to former British Prime Minister David Cameron received honours from Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday - a move criticized as cronyism by Cameron’s opp...

LAGOS, Nigeria - Abubakar Shekau said Thursday he is still the leader of Boko Haram, rejecting a successor announced hours earlier by the Islamic State group and exposing the biggest rift yet among Ni...

WASHINGTON - Long-term U.S. mortgage rates declined this week after rising for three straight weeks, continuing to lure prospective homebuyers. Mortgage giant Freddie Mac says the average for the benc...

LOS ANGELES - Caitlyn Jenner says she backs the Republican party, but hasn’t “outwardly supported anybody” in the presidential race, including GOP nominee Donald Trump. During an app...

WASHINGTON - Fannie Mae reported net income of $2.9 billion from April through June, down from a year earlier as low interest rates brought losses for the mortgage giant on its investments. The second...

WASHINGTON - More Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, but the number of remained close to historic lows in a positive sign for the job market. THE NUMBERS: Applications for jobless ...

LISBON, Portugal - The parking lot of an open-air music and dance festival in Portugal resembles a vehicle graveyard after a wildfire gutted 422 cars. Police on Thursday inspected the long lines of ch...