Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - Denis Johnson, the prize-winning fiction writer, poet and playwright best known for his surreal and transcendent story collection “Jesus’ Son,” has died at age 67. Johnson...

PITTSBURGH - The artist of a painting depicting the fatal shooting of Tamir Rice has withdrawn the piece from a Pittsburgh arts festival after an outcry that the white artist was exploiting black pain...

MANCHESTER, England - KISS has cancelled its show at the arena where deadly terrorist attacks occurred at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, earlier this week. Live Nation announced Frid...

MANCHESTER, England - The Latest on the concert bombing in England (all times local): 9:20 p.m. Police lined the street as an athletic event went ahead in Manchester four days after a suicide bomber t...

CHICAGO - A Chicago jail has started offering gourmet Italian pizzas to inmates. For the past few weeks, inmates have been able to order a pizza made by fellow inmates in a fancy $16,000 pizza oven. I...

BEIJING - One of the Chinese government’s most vocal critics is finally falling silent. He Weifang told The Associated Press Friday that he would no longer publish on social media after authorit...

One of the smallest historically black colleges in the U.S. boasts a huge accomplishment: pound for pound, tiny Dillard University in New Orleans graduates more physics majors — and, notably, mo...

BEIRUT - A fresh wave of airstrikes in eastern Syria killed at least 35 civilians including women and children, state media and a monitoring group reported Friday, as the U.N. human rights chief said ...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Jim Allen once worked for Donald Trump in Atlantic City. Now, the chairman of Hard Rock International is doing all he can to scrub the influence of the man who is now president o...

TIRANA, Albania - Albania’s government has declared May 10 as Pelican Day in an effort to protect the habitat of a bird under threat. A statement Friday says Environment Minister Lefter Koka iss...