Category Archives: World

BATON ROUGE, La. - Authorities in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Monday released the identities of the attacker and victim after a man fatally shot a woman, threw her body out of a car and then was killed...

HAVANA - They came for salsa music and mojitos and ended up wandering through a city turned still and silent by nine days of national mourning for Fidel Castro. As Cuba prepares a massive commemoratio...

NEW YORK - Disney’s South Pacific animated tale “Moana” fell short of a “Frozen”-sized debut but nevertheless dominated the Thanksgiving box office with an estimated $81....

DALLAS - The exclusive Dallas boys’ prep school that Richard B. Spencer attended is denouncing the activities and ideas of its white nationalist alumnus. St. Mark’s School of Texas headmas...

MODESTO, Calif. - Video of a brawl among deal-hunting shoppers at a crowded Northern California mall has been getting nationwide attention. The Modesto Bee reports (http://bit.ly/2fFCMhD ) that the vi...

ISTANBUL - Turkish authorities detained two reporters working for foreign news organizations in southeast Turkey, the latest journalists taken into custody as part of the government’s sweeping c...

WASHINGTON - The Cuban government must move toward enacting greater freedoms for its people and giving Americans something in return if it wants to keep warmer U.S. relations initiated by President Ba...

STOCKHOLM - Sweden’s Christmas Goat - a giant decorative goat made of straw and wood - didn’t last long on its 50th anniversary. The straw goat, an annual Yuletide tradition in the city of...

AMHERST, Mass. - Veterans are planning a protest at a western Massachusetts college facing criticism from around the country for its decision to stop flying U.S. flags after students allegedly burned ...

ATLANTA - Beaver dams have been demolished, burbling fountains silenced, and the drinking water in one southern town has taken on the light brownish colour of sweet tea. Though water shortages have ye...