Category Archives: World

NAPLES, Fla. - Kim McGuire, who played the character known as “Hatchet-Face” in the John Waters film “Cry-Baby,” has died. She was 60. Her husband, Gene Piotrowsky, confirmed h...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A black boy. A white Ohio police officer. A pellet gun that looked like a real weapon. And a deadly shooting. In a killing with unavoidable echoes of the Tamir Rice case out of Clevel...

BERLIN - Dozens of police officers intervened as groups of far-right Germans and young asylum seekers clashed in an eastern German town that has previously seen racist incidents, officials said Thursd...

WASHINGTON - Creating the Atlantic Ocean’s first marine national monument is a needed response to dangerous climate change, oceanic dead zones and unsustainable fishing practices, President Bara...

MANILA, Philippines - A former Filipino militiaman testified before the country’s Senate on Thursday that President Rodrigo Duterte, when he was still a city mayor, ordered him and other members...

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump says he believes women should be able to obtain birth control without a prescription. Speaking on an episode of “The Dr. Oz Show” airing Thursday, the Republican ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Steve King says Colin Kaepernick’s protest of the national anthem is “activism that is sympathetic to ISIS.” The 49ers quarterback has sat or has taken a knee ...

CHICAGO - The mother of Sandra Bland, a black woman who died last summer in a Texas jail after a contentious traffic stop, has reached a $1.9 million settlement in her wrongful-death lawsuit, her atto...

WASHINGTON - Long-term U.S. mortgage rates rose this week, with the benchmark 30-year loan reaching its highest level since June. Rates remain at historically low levels, however. Mortgage giant Fredd...

WASHINGTON - U.S. businesses left their stockpiles unchanged in July while sales declined slightly. The Commerce Department says inventories were flat in July after rising a modest 0.2 per cent in Jun...