Category Archives: World

STOCKHOLM - A Swedish appeals court on Friday upheld a detention order for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, dismissing the latest attempt by the 45-year-old Australian to make prosecutors drop a rape...

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump’s “Penny Plan” sounds like a painless pinprick in the federal budget - a 1 per cent annual cut in a chunk of government spending, adding up to huge savings....

NEW YORK - Donald Trump has attached a price tag to an economic vision promising what many economists say is impossible: lower taxes, a dramatic expansion in some federal programs and a slimmer govern...

TOKYO - Eighty-eight places in Japan are going to be designated “animation spots” to encourage tourism - using train stations, school campuses, rural shrines and other fairly everyday plac...

WASHINGTON - After five years as the chief promoter of a lie about Barack Obama’s birthplace, Donald Trump abruptly reversed course Friday and acknowledged the fact that the president was born i...

WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton on Thursday accused rival Donald Trump of fostering ugliness and bigotry by refusing to acknowledge President Barack Obama was born in the United States, and urged Hispani...

PEORIA, Ariz. - A suburban Phoenix elementary school has received some wild visitors. Staff members spotted four burros walking onto the playground of Vistancia Elementary in the city of Peoria on Thu...

LOS ANGELES - Scientists at the Channel Islands National Park, just off the Southern California coast, have excavated a rare and well-preserved mammoth skull fossil from Santa Rosa Island, the park an...

NEW YORK - A man who was shot by police on a crowded New York City street after he struck an off-duty detective with a meat cleaver was initially stopped because he was trying to remove a boot from a ...

NEW YORK - A New York City museum is offering visitors a chance to sit on a golden throne, but only in private. As part of his “America” exhibit at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Italia...