Category Archives: World

NASHVILLE - Country star Keith Urban was honoured for his philanthropy and hit country songwriter Bob DiPiero was honoured as an icon by the performing rights organization BMI on Tuesday. The BMI Coun...

RICHMOND, Va. - A transgender candidate defeated an incumbent Virginia lawmaker Tuesday who sponsored a bill that would have restricted which bathrooms she could use. Democrat Danica Roem, a former jo...

BEIJING - The Latest on President Donald Trump’s trip to Asia (all times local): 3:50 p.m. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping (shee jihn-peeng) are having tea at the start o...

PHILADELPHIA - A longtime civil rights attorney who has sued the police department scores of times, opposes the death penalty and promised to help hold bad officers accountable was elected Tuesday as ...

Democrats swept Virginia and New Jersey’s governor’s races, incumbents came out on top in several big-city mayoral races and voters in Maine said they wanted to join 31 other states in exp...

WASHINGTON - The White House says President Donald Trump cast an absentee ballot in Tuesday’s municipal elections in his hometown of New York City. Principal deputy press secretary Raj Shah conf...

NEW YORK - Mayor Bill de Blasio cruised to re-election on Tuesday, fending off token opposition to win a second term as the leader of the nation’s largest city. De Blasio, a Democrat, easily def...

BOSTON - Voters in Boston have re-elected Marty Walsh to a second term as mayor. Walsh defeated City Councilor Tito Jackson on Tuesday after a low-key campaign. Election officials reported relatively ...

NEW YORK - In a story Nov. 7 about the death of Alberto Nisman, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Argentine President Mauricio Macri said the prosecutor had been murdered. The president&#...

SAN DIEGO - California regulators on Tuesday approved a plan to spend nearly $400 million over 10 years to slow the shrinking of the state’s largest lake, a vital migratory stop for birds and a ...