Category Archives: World

WELLESLEY, Mass. - A lawyer for one of two college students barred from their campus for taunting students at Hillary Clinton’s alma mater in Massachusetts is demanding an apology after the ban ...

BOSTON - A young humpback whale that was tangled up in fishing gear off Boston for several days has been freed. The Center for Coastal Studies says its Marine Animal Entanglement Response team freed t...

PHILADELPHIA - In a story Dec. 12 about the sentencing of former U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah, The Associated Press reported that Fattah took a $1 million loan in 2007 from Sallie Mae’s chairman. The ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. - Through a dozen witnesses on Tuesday, federal prosecutors reconstructed the activities of Dylann Roof in the months leading up to night he went to a black Charleston church and shot...

BOSTON - Four churches have withdrawn a federal lawsuit that claimed a state law prohibiting discrimination against transgender people in public restrooms violated their constitutional right to religi...

ST. LOUIS - A former St. Louis police sergeant was ordered Monday to spend a year and a day in federal prison for stealing more than $80,000 from the organization for black police officers that he onc...

EMERSON, Ga. - Almost a year after a groundbreaking that never happened, Avatron Smart Park, a $750-million technology-centred theme park planned to be built in Emerson announced Monday that it is shu...

ROME - Italy’s latest government was formed and rapidly sworn in Monday, a centre-left coalition headed by new Premier Paolo Gentiloni and strikingly similar in makeup to the just-ended one that...

OKLAHOMA CITY - The Cherokee Nation’s attorney general legalized gay marriage for the country’s second-largest Native American tribe, saying its same-sex marriage ban violates a tribal req...

MADISON, Wis. - The Latest on the presidential recount (all times local): 6:55 p.m. Republican President-elect Donald Trump is celebrating picking up more votes in Wisconsin in its recount. The billio...