Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin agrees with President Donald Trump that there could be such a thing as a “good” government shutdown. Mnuchin told the Senate Budget Committee...

PARIS - A European court ordered Britain on Tuesday to maintain a terminally-ill baby on life support for six more days after his parents, desperate to take their son to the U.S. for experimental trea...

MIAMI - A former president of Panama sought without success Tuesday to be released from custody as he fights an effort to send him from the U.S. back to his homeland to face charges in a case of polit...

RICHMOND, Va. - Rolling Stone magazine agreed to pay $1.65 million to settle a defamation lawsuit filed by a University of Virginia fraternity over a debunked story about a rape on campus, the fratern...

BANGOR, Maine - Horror author Stephen King says his frequent criticism of President Donald Trump has gotten him blocked on Twitter. The author of “Firestarter” and “It” tweeted...

SAN FRANCISCO - It’s clear from former Attorney General Eric Holder’s recommendations on how to fix Uber’s dysfunctional management that the male-dominated company grew huge without ...

VIENNA - An Austrian court has ordered a hospital to pay 90,000 euros (over $100,000) for handing a baby to the wrong parents more than two decades ago. Doris Gruenwald, 26, discovered the error after...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - A Pennsylvania father has been sentenced to a maximum of four years in state prison after his 13-year-old daughter was hospitalized after drinking 17 shots of vodka. Charles Younger h...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - A jury weighing the fate of a Minnesota police officer charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of a black motorist asked Tuesday to re-watch two key videos. In their second d...

WASHINGTON - It may not be necessary to expand a ban on laptops and other large electronics in the cabins of many international flights into the United States right now, Homeland Security Secretary Jo...