Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - Hurricanes seldom get close to Hawaii and it’s even rarer for one of the islands to take a direct hit. Hurricane Lane is already drenching and pummeling the island chain, even witho...

CHICAGO - A Chicago rapper’s foundation will be giving away thousands of shoes in a South Side neighbourhood where a recent law enforcement sting using “bait trucks” to catch shoe th...

CINCINNATI - The nation’s largest grocery chain has begun to phase out the use of plastic bags as more Americans grow uncomfortable with their impact on the environment. Kroger Co. will start Th...

BOSTON - Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler is again demanding that President Donald Trump stop using the band’s songs at rallies. Tyler’s attorney sent a cease-and-desist letter to the presi...

AUGUSTA, Ga. - A former government contractor who pleaded guilty to mailing a classified U.S. report to a news organization was sentenced to more than five years in prison Thursday as part of a deal w...

FRANKFURT - Volkswagen says it’s launching an all-electric car sharing service in Berlin using its battery powered Golf and Up! models as it seeks to build a business serving people in big citie...

ATLANTA - A stunt co-ordinator has been injured on the set of the CBS TV series “MacGyver” in Atlanta. CBS Television Studios said in a statement Wednesday that Justin Sundquist was injure...

NEW YORK - The plea deal reached by Donald Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen has laid bare a relationship between the president and the publisher of the National Enquirer that goes well beyo...

ATLANTA - Hip-hop star Nicki Minaj has cancelled her North American tour with rapper Future. Minaj said on her Twitter account Tuesday night that she didn’t have enough time to rehearse for the ...

WASHINGTON - Sales of new U.S. homes slumped 1.7 per cent in July, the second straight monthly decline as the broader housing market appears to have lost some of its momentum despite an otherwise soli...