Category Archives: World

FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Alaska Gov. Bill Walker said he didn’t think North Korea would be able to strike the state with a nuclear warhead until 2020. But spiraling rumours about the country’s ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence officials are pretty sure North Korea can put a nuclear warhead on an intercontinental missile that could reach the United States. But experts aren’t convinced the...

MIAMI - The waning of Zika outbreaks in the Caribbean and South America has helped slow the spread of the mosquito-borne virus in Florida this year, according to health officials. Herd immunity, when ...

MISSION, Texas - Hundreds of protesters wearing white and chanting in English and Spanish marched Saturday in Texas’ first major protest against a border wall, crossing the earthen Rio Grande le...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - A cottonwood tree that provided shade for the Ute tribes of western Colorado before the arrival of white settlers has grown rotten and unstable and must be trimmed into a memor...

CAIRO - The head of the panel that drafted Egypt’s 2014 constitution, possibly the most progressive in the country’s history, denounced calls to amend the charter on Saturday, saying in a ...

CALDWELL, Idaho - A World War II fighter plane that spent 60 years at the bottom of a lake in Austria has been restored and will be unveiled and flown publicly later this month in southwest Idaho. The...

LAHORE, Pakistan - Deposed Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif called Saturday for “a change and revolution” in the country to ensure the sanctity of the vote as he addressed a large gat...

QUETTA, Pakistan - A suicide bomber on a motorcycle targeted a military truck Saturday with a bomb killing eight soldiers and seven civilians in the southwestern city of Quetta, an official and the mi...

BOSTON - Federal prosecutors say a Massachusetts couple tried to defraud the government out of more than $50 million in clean energy grants. The U.S. Attorney’s office says Christopher Condron a...