Category Archives: World

LONDON - Britain’s leading literary award, the Booker Prize, found a new financial backer Thursday after its sponsor of almost two decades pulled out. Prize trustees said the Crankstart Foundati...

DAKAR, Senegal - Senegalese President Macky Sall easily won re-election to a second term during a first round of voting, election officials announced Thursday. His opponents issued a joint statement s...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. economy turned in a solid performance in 2018, boosted in part by tax cuts and higher government spending. But growth slowed by year’s end, and most economists envision a w...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s prime minister pledged on Thursday his country would release a captured Indian fighter pilot, a move that could help defuse the most serious confrontation in two decades b...

DOHA, Qatar - The U.S. envoy leading the talks with the Taliban says the negotiations have been put on hold until this weekend. Zalmay Khalilzad wrote on Twitter on Thursday that “both sides wil...

HANOI, Vietnam - Talks between President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un collapsed Thursday after the two sides failed to bridge a standoff over U.S. sanctions, a dispiriting end to h...

LANSING, Mich. - Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Wednesday that Michigan’s incentives for Fiat Chrysler to add 6,500 jobs in the state will not require legislative approval. She said the state will u...

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday that the Fed is close to announcing a plan to end the reduction of the size of its massive bond portfolio, which looks likely by the ...

JUNEAU, Alaska - Gov. Mike Dunleavy has fired the chair of a state commission tasked with overseeing oil and gas drilling in Alaska, saying Hollis French was neglectful in his duties. French argues hi...

LOS ANGELES - An arbitrator has ordered 21st Century Fox to pay $179 million in a dispute over profits with the stars of the long-running TV show “Bones,” saying Fox executives engaged in ...