Category Archives: World

FRESNO, Calif. - A U.S. lawmaker accused Yosemite National Park of breaking federal law by adding 400 acres for a wildlife preserve without clearing it through Congress, but federal park officials sai...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Seven current and former San Francisco Bay Area police officers will be charged in a sexual misconduct scandal involving a teenager who was later arrested in Florida in an unrelated ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - It might be time to reconsider the five-second rule when thinking about eating food that has fallen on the floor. Researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey say in a new stu...

STOCKHOLM - Prince Alexander, the newest member of Sweden’s royal family, was baptized Friday at Drottningholm Palace outside Stockholm. About 150 guests attended the ceremony in the palace chap...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A British-Iranian woman detained for months in Iran on suspicion of planning the “soft toppling” of the country’s government while travelling with her y...

DETROIT - General Motors Co. is recalling about 4 million vehicles worldwide to fix an air bag software defect that has been linked to one death. The company said Friday that in rare cases, the car...

COLUMBUS, Miss. - A white former Mississippi police officer pleaded not guilty to manslaughter Friday in the shooting of a black man nearly a year ago that sparked community protests. Canyon Boykin wa...

WASHINGTON - Congress sent President Barack Obama a bipartisan bill that would allow families of Sept. 11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia, putting lawmakers on a collision course with th...

DETROIT - A Volkswagen engineer has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy in the company’s emissions cheating scandal, advancing a criminal investigation by agreeing to testify against other...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Two years after a small South Carolina police chief was fired because she was gay, the same chief said her hometown fired her again in retaliation for having an outside agency investi...