Category Archives: World

EVERGLADES CITY, Fla. - A great white shark named George has been spotted lingering off the Florida coast near the Everglades and Gulf of Mexico. News outlets cite shark-tracking organization OCEARCH ...

SAO PAULO - For Dayana Barros, Carnival always meant leaving Sao Paulo for the northeastern Brazilian city of Salvador, where she participated in its famous street parties throughout her childhood. Bu...

WARSAW, Poland - Poland’s president on Tuesday signed legislation that outlaws blaming Poland as a nation for Holocaust crimes committed by Nazi Germany, defying both criticism from Israel and a...

ATLANTA - Hundreds of Girl Scouts from across Georgia gathered inside the state capitol on Tuesday, offering cookies and smiles as they sought to convince lawmakers to get their founder’s name a...

BEIRUT - Russian and Syrian government forces launched a new wave of airstrikes on Tuesday, killing at least 45 civilians in a besieged area just outside of Syria’s capital, Damascus, according ...

Hong Kong’s highest court on Tuesday overturned prison sentences for three young pro-democracy activists convicted for their roles in kicking off 2014’s “Umbrella Movement” pro...

HONOLULU - When an erroneous alert was sent out last month telling people in Hawaii that there was an incoming ballistic missile, Jeffrey Wong was an island away from the state’s emergency manag...

CAYCE, S.C. - Passengers on a train that slammed into an empty freight train over the weekend in South Carolina, killing two Amtrak employees, described a smoky, bloody scene in 911 calls released to ...

DENVER - From its headquarters in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Bureau of Land Management oversees some of the nation’s most prized natural resources: vast expanses of public lands rich in oil, gas...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration’s proposal to add a sea-launched cruise missile to the U.S. nuclear arsenal, criticized by some as overkill, is meant to provide new negotiating leverage to...