Category Archives: World

LONDON - Police are reopening an investigation into one of Britain’s most notorious scandals because a main suspect who was thought to have died may be alive, the BBC reported Saturday. The deci...

CAIRO - Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi was sworn in for a second four-year term on Saturday after being re-elected in a vote earlier this year in which he faced no serious challengers El-Sis...

MADRID - Pedro Sanchez was sworn in as Spain’s prime minister Sunday, a day after the Socialist leader successfully ousted predecessor Mariano Rajoy who lost a no-confidence vote in parliament. ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Saudi Arabia’s King Salman issued a number of royal decrees, including naming a young prince who is close to his son and heir as head of a newly established Culture...

OKLAHOMA CITY - Prince’s estate is suing an Oklahoma man for alleged copyright infringement. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in Oklahoma City accuses Phil Shadid, of Yukon, of violati...

NEW YORK - MSNBC’s Joy Reid is apologizing again for past blog posts, including one that had an image of Sen. John McCain superimposed on the body of a campus killer and another where she urged ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A judge ruled Friday that a Florida police officer must stand trial for the fatal shooting of a stranded black motorist, saying his retelling of what happened on the darkened h...

BALTIMORE - Advocates for Maryland’s prisoners are pressing the mid-Atlantic state to scrap “senseless and harsh” regulations they say restrict the ability of inmates to access books...

ALBANY, N.Y. - The gubernatorial campaign of actress and activist Cynthia Nixon learned a hard lesson about New York state geography when it misspelled the name of the city of Ithaca in an email to su...

NEWARK, N.J. - Artie Lange has been spared a prison term for possessing heroin. A judge on Friday ordered the comedian who has struggled with drug addiction to serve four years of probation. The Hobok...