Category Archives: World

JERUSALEM - Is Israel a success as it turns 70? As Israelis commemorate the milestone this week, satisfaction and a grim disquiet share the stage. It has a standard of living that rivals Western Europ...

STOCKHOLM - Sweden’s king said Wednesday he wants to change the rules of the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Literature Prize each year, to allow board members to resign even though they...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump wasted no time before seizing on last week’s report by the Justice Department’s internal watchdog on misconduct allegations against the FBI’s form...

LOS ANGELES - Emily Ratajkowski was being literal, not cryptic. The actress and model says she wasn’t signalling that she was pregnant when she posted a photo of herself on Instagram with the ca...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - The Wyoming school district where U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos suggested that teachers might need to be armed to protect children from grizzly bears voted Tuesday on doing jus...

PEORIA, Ariz. - The question of whether Arizona teachers should walk off the job to call for increased school funding has both mobilized and stratified tens of thousands of educators, with some saying...

PARRISH, Ala. - A stinking trainload of human waste from New York City is stranded in a tiny Alabama town, spreading a stench like a giant backed-up toilet - and the “poop train” is just t...

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. - Free food pantries are becoming nearly as common as the campus book store at a growing number of colleges. More than 570 campus food pantries nationwide are registered with the Col...

TOKYO - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appears to be trying out a new tactic to boost the image of his authoritarian regime - he’s putting the spotlight on the women in his life. Over the past ...

JUBA, South Sudan - More than 200 child soldiers were released by armed groups in war-torn South Sudan, part of a series of releases that will see almost 1,000 children freed in the coming months. An ...