Category Archives: World

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - A former Miss America who helped rally the nation during World War II by selling millions of dollars’ worth of war bonds has died. Venus Ramey was 92. A funeral home in Sci...

NORRISTOWN, Pa. - An alternate juror in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault case said Monday he “probably” would have voted to convict and was “ridiculously sick” when he found o...

JERUSALEM - Oscar-winning actress Marlee Matlin says she is “extremely concerned” about funds being cut from services for the disabled. Matlin, who was the first deaf person to receive an ...

HARTFORD, Conn. - The Latest on Megyn Kelly’s Sunday night interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones (all times local): 11:51 a.m. Megyn Kelly’s interview with conspiracy theorist Alex...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court struck down a North Carolina law Monday that bars convicted sex offenders from Facebook, Twitter and other popular sites. The justices ruled unanimously in favour of Nor...

ALBANY, N.Y. - When military history author Bill Sloan sought inspiration for his new book on World War II in the Pacific, he found it in a then-96-year-old combat veteran from upstate New York who su...

LOS ANGELES - Carrie Fisher’s autopsy report shows the actress had cocaine in her system when she fell ill on a plane last year, but investigators could not determine what impact the cocaine and...

LOS ANGELES - Carrie Fisher had cocaine, heroin and ecstasy in her system when she became ill on a flight last year, autopsy shows. More to come. The Associated Press

NEW YORK - Long before cats became the darlings of Facebook and YouTube, they spread through the ancient human world. A DNA study reached back thousands of years to track that conquest and found evide...

HARIPUR, Pakistan - Bakhsheesh Elahi was waiting for the morning bus when a lone gunman on a motorcycle pulled up beside him and shot him dead. Rana Tanveer had just taken his family to safety after r...