Category Archives: World

PHILADELPHIA - The Latest on protests and demonstrations on Day 3 of the Democratic National Convention (all times local): 7:45 p.m. An anti-poverty activist is handing out plates of beans and encoura...

SAN DIEGO - A jury on Wednesday convicted a house painter of premeditated attempted murder for the shooting of a San Diego TV sports anchor last year. Jurors deliberated for about four hours before fi...

PHILADELPHIA - The Latest on the Democratic National Convention (all times EDT): 12:05 a.m. That’s her man. President Barack Obama’s got a special Twitter admirer back in Illinois. The pre...

LOS ANGELES - The founding members of the O’Jays are asking a Republican to stop using their music for the second time in a week. In a statement released Wednesday, Eddie Levert and Walter Willi...

ATLANTA - The Democratic National Convention’s lineup of speakers has highlighted an increasingly diverse country that could soon elect the first female president to succeed its first black chie...

PORTLAND, Maine - In the face of industry pressure, the federal government is spending up to $4.4 million to complete a plan to help Maine’s blueberry industry by buying surplus crop. The U.S. D...

CHICAGO - President Barack Obama’s presidential library will be built in a park on Chicago’s South Side along the shores of Lake Michigan and a short walk from the university where Obama o...

NEW YORK - FBI Director James Comey said government and the tech industry need to sort out their differences over encryption before “something terrible happens” that would make productive ...

PHILADELPHIA - Angry and disaffected Bernie Sanders’ backers have a new rallying cry: “Jill not Hill.” That’s Green Party candidate Jill Stein, whose liberal agenda of tuition-...

MIAMI - Donald Trump made an extraordinary plea for Russia to help find Hillary Clinton’s missing emails - but he hardly stopped there in a scattershot news conference Wednesday that doubled as ...