Category Archives: World

WAUKESHA, Wis. - A Wisconsin girl who stabbed a classmate to curry favour with the fictional horror character Slender Man will be committed to a mental hospital for 40 years, a judge ordered Thursday,...

PHOENIX - The Arizona House kicked out Republican Rep. Don Shooter on Thursday because of a lengthy pattern of sexual misconduct, making him the first state lawmaker in the U.S. to be expelled since t...

PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania announced Thursday that it will remove casino mogul Steve Wynn’s name from a campus plaza and revoke honorary degrees given to him and comedian Bill...

WAUKESHA, Wis. - One of two Wisconsin girls who tried to kill a classmate with a knife to appease fictional horror character Slender Man is expected to find out Thursday how long she’ll spend in...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration on Thursday accused Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government of producing and using “new kinds of weapons” to deliver deadly chemicals despite...

LOS ANGELES - A semi-automatic handgun went off accidentally inside the backpack of a 12-year-old girl in a Los Angeles middle school classroom, sending a single bullet tearing through the wrist of an...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The leader of the oldest Latino civil rights organization in the U.S. is facing pressure to resign after he publicly endorsed President Donald Trump’s immigration plan that s...

WASHINGTON - Former first lady Michelle Obama says there was “a lovely frame” in the Tiffany-blue box Melania Trump delivered on inauguration day. But the formal exchange on the day Presid...

WASHINGTON - Long-term U.S. mortgage rates rose for the fourth straight week. The rates on 15-year, fixed-rate mortgages and five-year adjustable-rate mortgages hit the highest level since 2011. Mortg...

LONDON - A man who steeped himself in far-right, anti-Muslim ideas before driving a van into a crowd of worshippers near a north London mosque was convicted Thursday of murder and attempted murder. A ...