Category Archives: World

RALEIGH, N.C. - Police filed charges Friday against three people accused of helping tear down a century-old Confederate statue during a protest this week at North Carolina’s flagship university....

NEW YORK - One of the nation’s most respected medical experts, who led the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, entered a courtroom on Friday in handcuffs, arrested on sexual-harassm...

BISMARCK, N.D. - A federal judge has dismissed a second defendant from a $1 billion racketeering lawsuit that the developer of the Dakota Access oil pipeline filed against environmental groups, leavin...

NEW YORK - Former President Bill Clinton, Smokey Robinson, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Cicely Tyson will be among the speakers at Aretha Franklin’s funeral next week. Franklin’s rep, Gwendo...

WASHINGTON - Presidents and lawmakers from both parties honoured Sen. John McCain’s decades of service to his country in the hours after his death Saturday. President Donald Trump, who once crit...

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell signalled Friday that he expects the Fed to continue gradually raising interest rates if the U.S. economic expansion remains strong. Powell added th...

BOSTON - A Massachusetts woman says in a lawsuit filed against Mario Batali that the celebrity chef forcibly kissed her and groped her in a Boston restaurant in 2017. According to media reports, the s...

WASHINGTON - Orders for long-lasting U.S. factory goods fell 1.7 per cent in July, the third decrease in the past four months. The Commerce Department said Friday that durable goods orders - items mea...

LIMA, Peru - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1-magnitude struck eastern Peru, close to its borders with Brazil and Bolivia, early Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake was...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - A court in Cambodia on Friday viewed some of the work produced by an Australian filmmaker charged with endangering national security by flying a drone over an opposition party r...