Category Archives: World

AUGUSTA, Maine - Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage has avoided immediate legislative punishment for an obscenity-laden voicemail and threats he directed toward a Democratic lawmaker. Democratic House ...

DETROIT - The Canadian auto workers’ union has picked General Motors Co. as a potential strike target in contract talks with the Detroit Three automakers. GM will now be the focus of bargaining ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. services companies grew last month at the slowest pace in more than six years, a private survey finds. The Institute for Supply Management said Tuesday that its services index fell t...

NEW YORK - Former Fox News Channel anchor Gretchen Carlson has settled her sexual harassment lawsuit against Roger Ailes, the case that led to the downfall of Fox’s chief executive with stunning...

VIENTIANE, Laos - A top aide of President Barack Obama said Tuesday he will meet with the wife of a missing Laotian activist, whose case has been repeatedly highlighted by human rights groups as an ex...

NEW YORK - Volkswagen Truck & Bus, an arm of the German automaker Volkswagen, is buying a minority stake in Navistar for $256 million. The two companies also said Tuesday that they will enter a pr...

BERLIN - An 80-year-old woman took an unintended short cut as she tried to drive her car out of a multistory car park in western Germany, breaking though the building’s wall and landing on a con...

LOS ANGELES - Chevy Chase has checked into a rehab facility in Minnesota for treatment for an alcohol problem. Chase’s publicist Heidi Schaeffer said Monday that Chase is at Hazelden Addiction T...

WASHINGTON - What if the Republican Party turns its back on its presidential nominee? The possibility that the Republican National Committee might abandon Donald Trump is remote. It’s been discu...

ATLANTA - If Donald Trump makes it to the White House, white Americans will have handed him the keys. Much depends on whether Trump is right that his campaign is a “movement.” And much res...