Category Archives: World

BEIJING - Global stock markets were mostly higher Wednesday after a post-U.S. election rally drove the Dow Jones industrial average to a new high. KEEPING SCORE: Britain’s FTSE 100 rose 0.6 per ...

ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia - Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said Wednesday he has “no worries” about Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president, adding that he expects the ...

FRESNO, Calif. - Utility workers in Fresno have rescued a cat that was stuck atop a 45-foot-high power pole for nine days. The Fresno Bee reports (http://bit.ly/2fD6MbH) Pacific Gas and Electric Co. l...

LOS ANGELES - The FBI says it will not file charges against Brad Pitt stemming from an alleged dispute with his family aboard a private flight. The FBI released a statement Tuesday saying it has revie...

DETROIT - A Wayne State University police officer died Wednesday, a day after he was shot in the head while on patrol near the Detroit campus. Officer Collin Rose, 29, died about 5:45 p.m. at a hospit...

DENVER - A federal judge on Tuesday asked the U.S. State Department to reconsider its decision to deny a passport to a Colorado resident who does not identify as either male or female and refused to c...

TOLEDO, Ohio - A white Ohio man has pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime charge for beating a black stranger he and another white man saw on the street and attacked because he was black. U.S. Depart...

LANSING, Mich. - The Michigan House of Representatives will pay $515,000 in a settlement with two former legislative aides who alleged they were wrongfully fired and publicly humiliated after reportin...

WASHINGTON - Vice-President Joe Biden closed the door Tuesday on the possibility of leading the Democratic Party after leaving the White House next year. Biden’s name has been floated in recent ...

SAN ANTONIO - A federal magistrate judge in San Antonio who told people at a citizenship swearing-in ceremony that they “need to go to another country” if they object to Donald Trump’...