Category Archives: World

Enbridge Energy Partners will pay a $61 million penalty for the costliest inland oil spill in U.S. history under an agreement with federal officials. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the D...

NEW YORK - Shareholders for agriculture and chemicals companies DuPont and Dow Chemical have approved their merger. After it’s complete, the century-old companies plan to break up into three par...

MT. PLEASANT, Iowa - Tom Vilsack’s political story already reads like a modern Horatio Alger tale: a humble beginning at an orphanage in Pittsburgh, a rise to governor of Iowa and then to the na...

CLEVELAND - Texas Sen. Ted Cruz tried to link arms with Republicans at the party’s national convention on Wednesday, but was booed lustily by delegates when he ended his speech without offering ...

CLEVELAND - Even more than the candidate himself, Donald Trump’s campaign chief has emerged as the early star of the Republican National Convention. Paul Manafort is the force behind the fight t...

CINCINNATI - An Ohio university cited rising security worries and costs Tuesday as it withdrew as host of the first presidential general election debate, which will move to New York’s Hofstra Un...

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey’s president on Wednesday declared a three-month state of emergency following a botched coup attempt, declaring he would rid the military of the “virus” of sub...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Researchers at the University of Florida say fish like the animated character Dory may become easier to find for home aquariums. In a statement Tuesday, researchers at the Universi...

GENEVA - Clown Dimitri, a beloved Swiss clown and mime over nearly six decades who studied under Marcel Marceau and spread smiles from Broadway to Congo with a traditional style that shunned modern, h...

BERLIN - Two Hong Kong tourists remained in a critical condition, the hospital treating them said Thursday, three days after they were attacked by an Afghan refugee wielding an axe and a knife on a Ge...