Category Archives: World

BEIJING - Japanese stocks plunged Tuesday and other Asian markets declined following heavy Wall Street losses triggered by President Donald Trump’s criticism of the U.S. central bank. The Nikkei...

MEXICO CITY - A husband-and-wife political power couple who were the current and ex-governors of the central Mexican state of Puebla died in a Christmas Eve helicopter crash, officials announced. Mexi...

PORTLAND, Maine - New England’s last remaining Republican congressman ended his legal battle Monday challenging the election of his Democratic opponent under Maine’s new voting system. U.S...

LOS ANGELES - The New York and Los Angeles police departments are poking some fun at their perceived rivalry and wading into a hotly contested debate: Is “Die Hard” a Christmas movie? It b...

BOSTON - A Massachusetts prosecutor says Kevin Spacey is scheduled to be arraigned next month on a charge of indecent assault and battery on allegations he sexually assaulted the teenage son of a Bost...

SALT LAKE CITY - Former Disney Channel actor Stoney Westmoreland has been charged with six felony counts after authorities said he tried to have sex with a 13-year-old boy. Westmoreland, 48, was on th...

President Donald Trump lashed out at the Federal Reserve on Monday after administration officials spent the weekend trying to assure the public and financial markets that Jerome Powell’s job as ...

NEW YORK - Actress Debby Ryan and Twenty One Pilots drummer Josh Dun are engaged. Both Ryan and Dun announced their engagement on social media Saturday. The 30-year-old Dun proposed to the 25-year-old...

ISTANBUL - Turkey’s official news agency says prosecutors are investigating two prominent actors for comments on a television program. Anadolu agency on Sunday quoted a statement from the Istanb...

WILMINGTON, N.C. - Police in North Carolina say they’re planning to charge a man formerly featured on “Teen Mom 2” for towing someone else’s truck out of a parking space withou...