Category Archives: World

SALT LAKE CITY - A pair of pawn shop workers who provided a key tip that helped authorities capture a fugitive polygamous sect leader will split a $50,000 reward from the FBI, the agency revealed Mond...

HONOLULU - Hawaii approved its first laboratory to begin testing samples of medical marijuana 17 years after use of the drug was legalized in the state. On Monday, the state Department of Health certi...

JACKSON, Miss. - The Confederate battle emblem on the Mississippi flag is prompting public protests and private discussions about race relations at a Southern legislative meeting. Lawmakers and staff ...

YANGON, Myanmar - Police in Myanmar have detained a prominent journalist, accusing him of attempting to flee the country shortly before his trial on defamation charges brought by a follower of a Buddh...

WASHINGTON - Simmering tensions between President Donald Trump and his attorney general appear to be cooling down. The White House said Monday that Trump has “100 per cent” confidence in h...

LOS ANGELES - No one really got to know Sam Shepard - and that was the way he seemed to like it. Despite dozens of blatantly personal plays to his name, movie stardom and the spotlight of celebrity an...

RALEIGH, N.C. - Federal judges on Monday rejected a request by North Carolina voters who sued over General Assembly district boundaries to hold special elections next March in new districts once lines...

SAN FRANCISCO - The State Bar of California on Monday proposed lowering the minimum score on the most recent licensing exam for attorneys amid an alarming decline in people passing the test, considere...

WASHINGTON - The White House defended President Donald Trump’s recent remarks that police shouldn’t be too nice when transporting suspects, saying Monday that the president was “maki...

BOGOTA - The newly elected assembly that will rewrite Venezuela’s constitution will have nearly unlimited legal power to install an even more staunchly socialist state, but its very creation has...