Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s plan to end America’s longest war and eliminate Afghanistan’s rising extremist threat involves sending up to 3,900 additional U.S. troops, senio...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A state-owned newspaper in Dubai is reporting a man has found himself in a legal mess after allegedly trying to smuggling 5.7 million amphetamine pills into the sheikhdom...

PHILADELPHIA - A one-car commuter train crashed into a parked train at a suburban Philadelphia terminal early Tuesday, buckling the floors of both cars and injuring more than 30 passengers, authoritie...

LOS ANGELES - He’s big and he’s loud. A nearly 700-pound blind California sea lion named Buddy has taken up residence at the Los Angeles Zoo, where his vocalizations can be heard throughou...

BAGHDAD - U.S. Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday he is confident that U.S.-backed Iraqi forces will finish off the Islamic State militants clinging to strongholds that are shrinking in size an...

Reaction to the total solar eclipse in the U.S.: “The show has just begun, people! What a gorgeous day! Isn’t this great, people?” - Jim Todd, a director at the Oregon Museum of Scie...

RICHMOND, Va. - Some graduates of Liberty University say they’re returning their diplomas to the evangelical school to denounce President Jerry Falwell Jr.’s latest show of support for Don...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Inside the famed vaults at Fort Knox, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell held a 27-pound gold bar in his hands Monday as part of the first civilian delegation to see most of the ...

WICHITA, Kan. - A father says the Kansas legal system failed his loved ones because it kept a man’s sex offender status below the radar long enough to kill his daughter and granddaughter. Keith ...

RALEIGH, N.C. - A federal judge cleared the way Monday for a former colonel in El Salvador’s military to be sent to Spain to face charges that he helped plot the notorious killings of six priest...