Category Archives: World

BOSTON - A woman who says Bill Cosby raped her decades ago wants a federal appeals court to reconsider her defamation case against the comedian. Kathrine McKee’s attorney is asking the full 1st ...

NEW YORK - The U.S. rate for gun deaths has increased for the second straight year, following 15 years of no real change, a government report shows. Roughly two-thirds of gun deaths are suicides and t...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump isn’t just remaking American foreign policy in Asia by tearing up trade deals and getting tough on North Korea. His administration is giving the region a whol...

KAMPALA, Uganda - When Martin Owor, a father of six, told his wife he was considering having a vasectomy, she told him it was out of the question. How would they live as husband and wife after his sur...

BRASILIA, Brazil - Half of Brazilians want former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to win next year’s election and return to the office he occupied between 2003 and 2010. The other half wants...

TOLEDO, Ohio - The armed robbery suspect hiding out in a camper in rural Michigan heard state troopers closing in, so he dashed into a field and crouched among the 6-foot-tall cornstalks. What he didn...

RICHMOND, Va. - Candidates in the country’s only two races for governor are in the final sprint before an Election Day that promises to illustrate how much - or how little - things have changed ...

HILDALE, Utah - In a place where political contests are virtually unknown, the campaign signs offer the latest hint that a polygamous group is losing its grip on this remote red rock community straddl...

NEW LONDON, N.H. - Holding manila folders filled with pages of her handwritten reports, Dr. Anna Konopka insists her system for keeping track of her patients’ medical conditions and various pres...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The U.S. military for the first time has conducted two airstrikes against Islamic State group fighters in Somalia, where the extremists are a growing presence in a country long th...