Category Archives: World

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - In a story Aug. 30 about the Hollywood, Florida, city commission voting to remove the names of Confederate generals from city streets, The Associated Press identified a protester as ...

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - A test version of a spacecraft resembling a mini space shuttle was carried aloft over the Mojave Desert by a helicopter Wednesday in a precursor to a free flight in wh...

WASHINGTON - Houston’s population is growing quickly, but when Harvey hit last weekend there were far fewer homes and other properties in the area with flood insurance than just five years ago, ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - President Donald Trump launched his fall push to overhaul the nation’s tax system by pledging Wednesday that the details-to-come plan would “bring back Main Street”...

MOSCOW - The Kremlin on Wednesday confirmed that President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer reached out to them during the 2016 presidential campaign, seeking help for a business project in Russia...

BOSTON - A good roasting hasn’t caused a meltdown at Boston’s new wax museum. Officials at the Dreamland Wax Museum say they’re embracing the extra attention brought by waves of onli...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Authorities have solved the mystery of how an alligator ended up in a swimming pool at a motel on the New Jersey shore. They say the 3-foot-long (0.91-meter-long) alligator found...

DEVILS TOWER, Wyo. - Just like in the science-fiction movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” UFO enthusiasts are being drawn to a strange geological formation in Wyoming. Devils Tower...

OSSINING, N.Y. - An orange tabby named Tiger is enjoying his role as one of the last cats living at New York’s Sing Sing Correctional Facility. The prison north of New York City once had hundred...

HOUSTON - Rescuers began a block-by-block search of tens of thousands of Houston homes Thursday, pounding on doors and shouting as they looked for anyone - alive or dead - who might have been left beh...