Category Archives: World

BERLIN - Swiss voters rejected a plan to accelerate the country’s exit from nuclear energy in a referendum Sunday, turning down an initiative that would have forced their government to shut the ...

HOUSTON - The U.S. Supreme Court is set to examine whether the nation’s busiest state for capital punishment is trying to put to death a convicted killer who’s intellectually disabled, whi...

NEW ORLEANS - One man was killed, nine people were injured and witnesses said others ran in panic during an early Sunday shooting in New Orleans’ French Quarter, a bustling tourist destination p...

NEW YORK - President-elect Donald Trump claimed without evidence Sunday that “millions” voted illegally in the national election, scoffing at Hillary Clinton’s nearly 2 million edge ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Preliminary evidence points to 22-year-old McKay Hutton as the gunman in a murder-suicide that left four dead - including an infant - at an Alaska hotel on Friday, police said in a...

NEW YORK - Someone has renamed Donald Trump’s midtown Manhattan building on Google Maps, and the new moniker isn’t very flattering. Instead of Trump Tower, it’s “Dump Tower....

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Veteran Chinese director Feng Xiaogang has picked up the Golden Horse Award for best director for his social satire “I Am Not Madame Bovary.” The annual Golden Horse award...

LOS ANGELES - Orange County, concerned that proposed changes in flight paths at its John Wayne Airport could inundate surrounding communities with noise, has joined the city of Newport Beach in suing ...

LONDON - Don’t get nostalgic about punk music - and if you do, don’t go collecting memorabilia from the glory days of the Sex Pistols. That seemed to be the message Saturday when the son o...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - A Northern California sheriff is promising to capture a pair of men who sawed their way out of a California jail and vanished late Thanksgiving Eve. Santa Clara County Sheriff Lauri...