Category Archives: World

BEIJING - Imprisoned Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate and dissident Liu Xiaobo has been transferred to a hospital after being diagnosed with late-stage liver cancer, authorities and his friends say....

The 2017 BET Awards had stumbles, from technical problems during a performance to going well over its planned three-and-a-half hour time slot during the live show held Sunday in Los Angeles. But the s...

FRESNO, Calif. - Authorities say 90 homes remain under mandatory evacuation orders following levee breaches along a river in California, the result of the state’s huge springtime snowpack meltin...

MEXICO CITY - Tropical Storm Dora was strengthening quickly off Mexico’s Pacific coast and forecasters said it could become a hurricane on Monday, bringing heavy rains without making a direct hi...

SALT LAKE CITY - Better weather conditions have limited the growth of a wildfire in Utah that has prompted the evacuation of 1,500 people from hundreds of homes and cabins, officials said Sunday night...

ALBANY, N.Y. - The 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal’s groundbreaking will be marked next month with a musical celebration along the waterway. The Albany Symphony Orchestra will perform seven ...

Remy Ma has ended rival Nicki Minaj’s seven-year winning streak at the 2017 BET Awards, a show highlighted by ’90s R&B and groups popular in that decade. Ma, who returned from jail in ...

LOS ANGELES - The Latest on the BET Awards being presented from the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles (all times local): 9:10 p.m. Remy Ma has ended Nicki Minaj’s seven year winning streak for be...

GUATAPE, Colombia - A tourist boat packed with about 160 passengers for the holiday weekend capsized Sunday on a reservoir near the Colombian city of Medellin, leaving at least six people dead and 31 ...

STATELINE, Nev. - More than two decades after developers first faced a series of stringent regulations, a $100 million lodge has opened on the south shore of Lake Tahoe to rave reviews from politician...