Category Archives: World

CLEVELAND - Cementing an extraordinary political takeover, Republicans nominated Donald Trump Tuesday night as their presidential standard-bearer, hitching their hopes of keeping Democrat Hillary Clin...

WESTFIELD, Ind. - Donald Trump’s voters adored him for mostly paying his own way in the first half of the presidential campaign. Yet those same people are shrugging their shoulders now that he&#...

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A tour bus carrying visitors from China burst into flames on a highway near Taiwan’s capital on Tuesday, killing all 26 people on board, officials said, in the deadliest inciden...

MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plunder case against former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and ordered her freed immediately after nearly five years of hos...

TULSA, Okla. - Tulsa police say officers fatally shot a man who confronted them with an axe and ignored commands to drop the weapon. Police said in a news release Tuesday that officers Richard Urban a...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Has your child swallowed a small battery? In the future, a tiny robot made from pig gut could capture it and expel it. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are d...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian police say they detained a Frenchman who trespassed on a military base while playing the augmented reality game “Pokemon Go.” A spokesman for West Java poli...

DENVER - Police departments across the country are ordering officers to pair up after ambush attacks left eight officers dead in Texas and Louisiana, a precaution that could slow response times to low...

A look at the 2016 Republican National Convention through a media lens: Who’s watching the clock? With ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News Channel, NBC, MSNBC and PBS offering a prime-time platform on the n...

CLEVELAND - Melania Trump’s well-received speech Monday to the Republican National Convention contained two passages that match nearly word-for-word the speech that first lady Michelle Obama del...