Category Archives: World

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google has created a crisis fund that could raise up to $4 million for four immigrant rights organizations. Google has confirmed a USA Today report that it is funding an initia...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Most postcards carry a simple sentiment: Wish you were here. But the cards Anastasia Taylor-Lind and Alisa Sopova are mailing randomly to people around the globe convey a haunting m...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ocean rise already is worsening the floods and high tides sweeping California this stormy winter, climate experts say, and this month’s damage and deaths highlight that even a st...

BOGOTA - The revolution will now be televised. The life of Hugo Chavez, who mesmerized Venezuela’s impoverished masses before dying of cancer in 2013, is being dramatized in a Spanish-language T...

WASHINGTON - Consumers boosted spending in December at the fastest pace in three months, giving the economy some momentum going into 2017. The Commerce Department says consumer spending advanced 0.5 p...

QUEBEC - The Latest on the deadly shooting at a Quebec City mosque (all times local): 12:25 p.m. Quebec police now say just one of the individuals arrested in connection with Canadian mosque attack is...

ROME - Italian government and church officials welcomed 41 Syrian refugees at Rome’s airport Monday, saying they wanted to show solidarity with those fleeing war at a time when the U.S. is sendi...

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. - Conservative patriarch Charles Koch and his vast network is vowing to oppose President Donald Trump if and when he deviates from their dedication to “free and open societi...

LONDON - President Donald Trump’s order barring U.S. entry to people from seven majority Muslim nations is “divisive, discriminatory and wrong,” British Foreign Secretary Boris Johns...

TOKYO - Masaya Nakamura, the “Father of Pac-Man” who founded the Japanese video game company behind the hit creature-gobbling game, has died. He was 91. Nakamura, who died on Jan. 22, foun...