Category Archives: World

CHARLESTON, S.C. - Attorneys for Dylann Roof, the white man charged with killing nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church, want a federal judge to rule the death penalty unconstitutional and...

LOCKHART, Texas - If Alfred “Skip” Nichols had been a commercial airplane pilot, he probably would have been grounded long ago. Nichols, the pilot of a hot air balloon that crashed over th...

MECHANICSBURG, Pa. - On the campaign stump, Donald Trump has opened August by moving from “Crooked Hillary” to “the devil.” Speaking in Pennsylvania on Monday, the billionaire ...

BEIJING - Typhoon Nida was moving northwest across southern China on Tuesday, bringing high winds and heavy rain but no immediate reports of deaths or destruction. The storm made landfall at 3:35 a.m....

WASHINGTON - The Latest on the U.S. presidential campaign (all times EDT): 12:10 a.m. Mike Pence defended a military mom’s right to criticize Donald Trump’s comments about the Muslim paren...

LOS ANGELES - One man and two women died after attending a weekend rave in California headlined by Ice Cube, Major Lazer and dozens of other hip hop and electronic dance music performers. The three pe...

Wildfires are burning in seven Western states, from California’s scenic Big Sur region to tribal towns and hamlets near Reno, Nevada. More than a dozen homes were destroyed in Montana, and thous...

LOCKHART, Texas - In a story Aug. 1 about a hot air balloon crash, The Associated Press reported erroneously, based on inaccurate information from the Federal Aviation Administration, that the same ba...

LAS VEGAS - Racist language in old tweets from the freshly crowned Miss Teen USA is just the latest controversy for the Miss Universe Organization, which suffered a round of turmoil last year over the...

MIAMI - A former Miss Florida USA winner is suing the pageant after organizers took her crown and accused her of cheating. The Miami Herald (http://goo.gl/IPv586) reports that attorneys for 24-year-ol...