Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - Arctic sea ice this summer shrank to its second lowest level since scientists started to monitor it by satellite, with scientists saying it is another ominous signal of global warming. Th...

ST. LOUIS - The Democratic U.S. Senate candidate in Missouri assembles an AR-15 assault rifle - blindfolded - then dares the incumbent Republican to do the same in a TV ad released Thursday. “I ...

DOVER, Del. - A former airman at Dover Air Force Base was given 18 months probation at sentencing Thursday in the death of a 21-month-old boy who was left in his care while his mother was deployed ove...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. safety regulators announced a formal recall of Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 smartphone Thursday after a spate of fires led to injuries and property damage and created a global ma...

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump’s signature, an unmistakable if nearly illegible series of bold vertical flourishes, was scrawled on the improper $25,000 check sent from his personal foundation to a p...

WASHINGTON - A fact sheet issued by Donald Trump’s campaign on Thursday said he would roll back food safety regulations if the billionaire businessman is elected president, arguing they are burd...

NEW ORLEANS - Avoiding a nasty real-life plot twist, a writer dashed past firefighters into a burning New Orleans house Thursday to rescue two completed novels stored on his laptop. “Anybody tha...

SWARTHMORE, Pa. - Student tour guides at a college outside Philadelphia say they have been told not to bring prospective students or their parents into a dormitory because it frequently smelled of mar...

PHOENIX - When Rose Mofford was thrown into the role of Arizona’s governor, she was also plunged into a political hailstorm. With her predecessor impeached, a budget deficit and the state refusi...

WASHINGTON - The FBI has imposed new restrictions on its agents’ ability to masquerade as reporters following an uproar over the impersonation of an Associated Press journalist, but the agency h...