Category Archives: World

CHICAGO - The Justice Department on Friday laid bare years of civil rights violations by Chicago police, blasting the nation’s second-largest department for using excessive force that included s...

HAVANA - Ordinary Cubans worried Friday about the economic problems that could be caused for some people by the sudden end to a once-easy pathway to life in the United States, saying many people who a...

LONDON - Lord Snowdon, the society photographer and filmmaker who married Britain’s Princess Margaret and continued to mix in royal circles even after their divorce, has died. He was 86. Bucking...

BEIRUT - The convoy of vehicles was driving on a dirt road in northwestern Syria when the aerial attack by the U.S.-led coalition struck, turning the vehicles into balls of fire and the people inside ...

U.S. stock indexes were mostly higher in afternoon trading Friday, giving up some of their gains from earlier in the day. Banks and other financial companies were up the most as investors sized up ear...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The International Space Station’s solar power grid got three more top-of-the-line batteries Friday during the second spacewalk in a week. Commander Shane Kimbrough and Fre...

SAN DIEGO - When James Tomsheck joined U.S. Customs and Border Protection in 2006 as chief of internal affairs, the nation’s largest law enforcement agency was on an unprecedented hiring spree. ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. businesses stockpiled more goods in warehouses and on store shelves in November as sales improved slightly. The Commerce Department says business inventories rose a seasonally adjust...

NEW YORK - The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 11:45 a.m. Stocks rose in midday trading as investors pore over earnings reports from several big lenders. Banks and other...

MOSCOW - Still mired in a doping scandal and with a track team banned from international competition, the president of the Russian Olympic Committee said his country may put forth a bid to host the 20...