Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - FBI Director James Comey said government and the tech industry need to sort out their differences over encryption before “something terrible happens” that would make productive ...

PHILADELPHIA - Angry and disaffected Bernie Sanders’ backers have a new rallying cry: “Jill not Hill.” That’s Green Party candidate Jill Stein, whose liberal agenda of tuition-...

MIAMI - Donald Trump made an extraordinary plea for Russia to help find Hillary Clinton’s missing emails - but he hardly stopped there in a scattershot news conference Wednesday that doubled as ...

LAS VEGAS - Attorneys for Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil say they’re investigating what led to a misdemeanour battery charge accusing Neil of grabbing a woman’s hair and pulling her to th...

LAKE ORION, Mich. - A suburban Detroit motorcyclist was apparently fast enough to leave police in the dust during a chase, but not swift enough to stop from bragging about it on Facebook. Lake Orion p...

DES MOINES, Iowa - The Iowa Court of Appeals on Wednesday reversed a portion of the fraud convictions of a former lottery official accused of fixing a Hot Lotto game in Iowa in 2010 but upheld a secon...

BERLIN - A suitcase containing a spray can exploded near a refugee centre and a police station in the German state of Bavaria on Wednesday, but no one was hurt, authorities said. Witnesses reported th...

HOUSTON - Two circus acrobats tied the knot on a tightrope during a performance in Houston. Mustafa Danguir (moo-STAH’-fuh dan-GWEER’) and Anna Lebedeva (AHN’-yuh leb-uh-DAY’-v...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A judge on Wednesday dismissed a manslaughter charge against a Florida deputy who claimed self-defence in the 2013 fatal shooting of a 33-year-old black man carrying what turne...

WASHINGTON - The number of Americans who signed contracts to buy homes crept up in June, a possible indication that the recent growth in real estate sales is still on track. The National Association o...