Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has sent lawmakers an initial request for a $7.9 billion down payment toward Harvey relief and recovery efforts. The request, expected to be swiftly approved by Con...

WASHINGTON - The White House is still trying to decide who will get President Donald Trump’s pledged $1 million donation for Harvey storm relief efforts, one of the largest gifts ever given by a...

CROSBY, Texas - Silvia Casas’ eyes welled with tears Friday as she surveyed the damage from Harvey to what was once a working class, mostly Hispanic neighbourhood near Crosby, Texas. Large trees...

WASHINGTON - Midday protests. Urgent pleas. Furious campaigning. A president torn. President Donald Trump stood at the centre of a frantic lobbying campaign Friday as he neared a decision on the fate ...

HOUSTON - Thick black smoke and towering orange flames shot up after two trailers of highly unstable compounds blew up at a flooded Houston-area chemical plant. Friday’s fire was the second ther...

HOUSTON - Officials in Houston sought Friday to safeguard parts of their devastated city by keeping others flooded in the wake of Harvey, which retained enough rain-making power to raise the risk of f...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Astronaut Peggy Whitson is closing out a space streak unmatched by any other American. The world’s most experienced spacewoman is due back on Earth this weekend following ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Acrid, black smoke was seen pouring from a chimney at the Russian consulate in San Francisco and workers began hauling boxes out of the stately building in a historic area of the city ...

ROME - Italy is putting on display a 1st century marble head that an American museum returned after learning it was stolen during World War II from a southern Italian museum. The Cleveland Museum of A...

NEW YORK - When Joan Osborne first met Bob Dylan, the two singers got very, very close. There wasn’t much of a choice - they had to share the same recording studio microphone. “I’m l...