Category Archives: World

CARACAS, Venezuela - For 10 years, ever since they bonded over baseball at work, Franlet Bencomo and Elbert Albarran haven’t missed an opening day game together. This year, however, they left th...

BEIJING - China’s ruling Communist Party has expelled a former top general who killed himself during a corruption probe and indicted another on graft charges amid President Xi Jinping’s co...

TEHRAN, Iran - Militants in Iran abducted 14 members of a border security force near the Pakistan border on Tuesday in the latest blow to the powerful Revolutionary Guard. Media reports quoted an unna...

ATLANTA - A Melania Trump spokeswoman is asking people to boycott Atlanta rapper T.I. because of his promotional album video that shows a woman resembling the first lady stripping in the oval office. ...

WASHINGTON - A federal judge dismissed Stormy Daniels’ defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump on Monday, saying the president made a “hyperbolic statement” against a polit...

Before there was Amazon - or, for that matter, Home Depot or Walmart or Kmart - there was Sears. From its beginnings as a mail-order watch business in Minneapolis 132 years ago, the company grew to be...

NEW YORK - Ann Curry is getting into the business of medical crowdsourcing on television. The former “Today” show anchor has agreed to anchor a Turner series that describes people with mys...

ABUJA, Nigeria - Islamic State-linked extremists in Nigeria have killed another abducted health worker despite an urgent plea from the International Committee of the Red Cross to spare her life, the g...

BRISTOL, Tenn. - A man who police say was run over with a lawn mower while trying to kill his son with a chain saw has had to have his leg amputated. The Bristol Herald Courier reports that a warrant ...

CHICAGO - Chance the Rapper is so serious about raising money for arts education programs in Chicago that he took a second job as a Lyft driver to spread the word. The Chicago Tribune reports that the...