Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - The Google engineer who blamed biological differences for the paucity of women in tech had every right to express his views. And Google likely had every right to fire him, workplace experts...

NEW YORK - A Wall Street executive shed his electronic ankle bracelet Wednesday and emerged smiling from a courthouse to say he’s ready to restart his financial business a day after prosecutors ...

NEW YORK - Want to live like a Trump? Now’s your chance: The president’s New York City boyhood home is on Airbnb. The 1940 Tudor-style house in Queens is being offered for $725 a night. Th...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Worshippers at the nation’s oldest synagogue plan to ask for a rehearing following an appeals court decision that gave ownership of their Rhode Island house of worship and bel...

PORTLAND, Maine - The family of a teenager who died in a hayride crash has settled a lawsuit against the farm owner who operated the Halloween attraction in 2014, the family lawyer said Wednesday. Mon...

NEW YORK - For a year, David Berkowitz terrorized New York. The papers called him the “.44 Caliber Killer.” In taunting notes to police and a journalist, he called himself “Mr. Monst...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A black teenager pointed a BB gun that looked like a handgun at police before he was fatally shot by officers outside an emergency youth centre in eastern Arkansas, a prosecutor sa...

JOHANNESBURG - Up to 50 migrants from Somalia and Ethiopia were “deliberately drowned” when a smuggler forced them into the sea off Yemen’s coast, the U.N. migration agency said Wedn...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration imposed sanctions Thursday on eight more individuals in Venezuela, including the brother of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, in the latest U.S. bid to t...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump scolded his own party’s Senate leader on Wednesday for the crash of the Republican drive to repeal and rewrite the Obama health care law, using Twitter to dem...