Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - For nearly the entire week since he became president-elect, Donald Trump has been holed up in his gilded New York skyscraper. A steady stream of visitors has come to him, flooding through...

NEW ORLEANS - The 2016 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence goes to Kentucky writer, poet and educator Crystal Wilkinson for her debut novel, “Birds of Opulence.” The Baton Rouge...

LONDON - Human rights lawyer Philippe Sands won Britain’s leading nonfiction literary award on Tuesday for a book about the fight to prosecute war crimes that blends historical investigation and...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The Latest on the fallout from a racist comment about first lady Michelle Obama that a local West Virginia official posted on Facebook (all times local): 5:10 p.m. The Clay, West V...

OKLAHOMA CITY - The Latest on a shooting at Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City (all times local): 6:35 p.m. Police say a suspect in the fatal shooting of a Southwest Airlines employee at Will ...

NEW YORK - The presidential election boosted NBC News - and its aftermath helped Fox News Channel and “60 Minutes.” Although CNN and Fox News were the most-watched networks on election nig...

Denver has approved a first-in-the-nation law allowing people to use marijuana at bars, restaurants and other public spaces such as art galleries or yoga studios. The catch: Patrons could use pot as l...

INDEPENDENCE, Ohio - LeBron James respected Phil Jackson’s unmatched coaching accomplishments. That affection has vanished. “I’ve got nothing for him,” James said Tuesday. Jame...

PARIS - Art experts are disagreeing as to whether a book of previously unpublished drawings reported to be by Dutch master Vincent Van Gogh is authentic or fake. The book, “The Lost Arles Sketch...

Oklahoma City police investigators worked to piece together why a man waited to gun down an airline employee outside Will Rogers World Airport on Tuesday in an ambush that forced hundreds of traveller...