Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - More than two dozen people were sickened in an apparent mass drug overdose on a New York City street corner, sparking warnings from police and health officials about the dangers of using K2...

PHILADELPHIA - Workers at Philadelphia International Airport have voted overwhelmingly to walk off the job during the Democratic National Convention later this month. The union that’s trying to ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Arlington National Cemetery requested Tuesday that smartphone users refrain from “catching” Pokemon when they visit. Like many other lan...

YOKOSUKA, Japan - Self-driving cars may be all the rage, but when it’s a real product, coming soon from Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co., the technology gets toned down. And so don’t ex...

PASADENA, Calif. - A NASA spacecraft has sent back the first pictures since arriving at Jupiter. An image released Tuesday shows Jupiter surrounded by three of its four largest moons. The picture was ...

BOSTON - The Citgo sign that lights up the Boston skyline and is seen by baseball fans when a home run balls sails over Fenway Park’s left-field wall has been granted preliminary landmark status...

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. - A 911 dispatch centre in Virginia is under investigation after a man died when no one was sent out in response to his call. WJLA-TV reports (http://bit.ly/29y5IC0) that 56-year-o...

SAN FRANCISCO - A kayaker captured video of humpback whales feasting on fish in a bay with the San Francisco skyline as a backdrop. Lyrinda Snyderman of Berkeley, California, says she was out with thr...

LITCHFIELD, Minn. - Storms spawned tornadoes, torrential rain and powerful winds that prompted evacuations, damaged homes, deposited a snowplow in a tree and flooded roads in parts of Minnesota, Michi...

MANILA, Philippines - The Latest on an international tribunal’s ruling on the case filed by the Philippines against China’s claims in the South China Sea (all times local): 10 a.m. A day a...