Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - The income of a median U.S. household rose for a third straight year in 2017, boosted by a rise in the number of Americans with full-time, year-round jobs. The Census Bureau said Wednesda...

HARRISVILLE, Miss. - A kangaroo is on the run - or maybe the jump - in central Mississippi. The Simpson County sheriff’s office says deputies have been looking for a 10-month-old kangaroo since ...

BRUSSELS - European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker says he’ll unveil plans this year to boost the euro’s role in financial markets, which are dominated by the dollar. Juncker sai...

LINCOLN, Neb. - Nebraska’s highest court dismissed a lawsuit Wednesday that would have stripped a Medicaid expansion proposal off the November ballot, clearing the way for voters to decide a mea...

NASHVILLE - Country singer and songwriter Luke Bryan has hosted a free street concert to mark the opening of his new Tennessee restaurant that drew nearly 30,000 people to downtown Nashville. The Tenn...

NEW YORK - Oscar-winning actress Viola Davis has regrets about her role as a maid in the 2011 film “The Help.” The 53-year-old told The New York Times “it wasn’t the voices of ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Five residents of a ramshackle desert compound in New Mexico are scheduled for arraignments and detention hearings after being indicted by a federal grand jury on firearms and cons...

RICHMOND, Va. - The Navy is moving people and ships ahead of Hurricane Florence , and the Air Force and Army are flying advanced aircraft elsewhere as a safeguard. Some remaining Marines, meanwhile, a...

TEHRAN, Iran - It’s hard not to see China wherever you look in Iran. From Chinese goods flooding markets to its business people eager for deals as Western business interests flee, Iran likely wi...

DALLAS - Protesters condemning the shooting death of a black man in his Dallas apartment by a white off-duty police officer disrupted a City Council meeting Wednesday, prompting a recess to quell the ...