Category Archives: World

ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Minnesota prosecutor said Friday that he won’t step aside but will add a special prosecutor to his team as he decides whether to charge a police officer in the fatal shooting...

STOCKHOLM - Worried that Swedes aren’t having enough sex, the government wants to analyze the bedroom activities of its citizens in a major new study. It’s been 20 years since the last in-...

FLINT, Mich. - Six current or former state employees were charged Friday with misconduct and other crimes in the Flint water crisis, bringing to nine the number of public officials facing prosecution ...

MIAMI - As word spread that Miami’s hippest neighbourhood was now considered ground zero for the first mosquito-transmitted infections of the Zika virus in the U.S. mainland, many residents vowe...

DETROIT - Combi USA is recalling more than 39,000 car seats because they can transmit too much force to a child’s chest in a crash. The recall covers certain Coccoro Convertible Child Restraints...

WASHINGTON - The wages and benefits paid to U.S. civilian workers rose at a steady pace in the second quarter compared to the first three months of the year, as income growth showed signs of slight ac...

WASHINGTON - It turns out the U.S. economy can withstand a cold snap after all. In early 2015, near-record-low temperatures and howling snowstorms in the Northeast appeared to keep shoppers indoors an...

WASHINGTON - Growth in the U.S. economy was sluggish again in the spring, dashing expectations for a robust rebound after a tough winter. Stronger consumer spending was offset by weakness in housing c...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - The United States Coast Guard is ending its search for an Ontario fisherman whose boat washed ashore in the United States earlier this week. Commander Tad Drozdowski cites the amount o...

BIG SUR, Calif. - Lodge managers and cafe owners along California’s dramatic Big Sur coast were looking Friday at a summer of jittery guests and cancelled bookings after fire officials warned th...