Category Archives: World

When she was about 14, Hillary Clinton says, she wrote to NASA volunteering for astronaut training. NASA’s reply was simple and definitive: No girls. “It was the first time I had hit an ob...

SALT LAKE CITY - The Utah governor’s order to block funding to Planned Parenthood was probably a political move designed to punish the group, a federal appeals court wrote in an ruling that orde...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A federal civil rights lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges that a white Memphis police officer used excessive deadly force when he shot and killed a 19-year-old black man during a fight a...

NEW YORK - Quarterback Tom Brady’s last best chance to avoid serving a four-game “Deflategate” suspension to start the new season was flatly rejected Wednesday by an appeals court. T...

LONDON - A Ukrainian weightlifter was stripped of her bronze medal from the 2012 London Olympics on Wednesday, the first athlete formally disqualified by the IOC after the retesting of doping samples ...

MINNEAPOLIS - A Minnesota law firm may have “potentially relevant” information for determining who should inherit Prince’s estate, a judge said in an order released Wednesday that di...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln has been transformed into “the party of Trump,” declaring her GOP presidential opponent a po...

NEW YORK - Amazon’s big sales day is here to stay. Amazon says Prime Day orders rose 60 per cent globally this year versus last year’s inaugural showing. It says sales of Amazon’s ow...

NEW YORK - The conditions placed on director Vitaly Mansky for shooting a film in North Korea were severe. For what was ostensibly to be a “documentary,” North Korea would supply the scrip...

BUCHAREST, Romania - Dozens of vulnerable men and boys were kidnapped, chained, whipped, fed scraps and forced to work or fight each other for entertainment over an eight-year period in rural southern...