Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - Stephen Bannon, a leading force of the far-right, a flame-throwing media mogul and professional provocateur, a man who made a career out of roiling the establishment from the outside, jus...

WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump is starting to sound an awful lot like President Barack Obama on immigration. In his first postelection interview, Trump said he will focus on deporting crimi...

MADISON, Wis. - The state of Wisconsin moved quickly Tuesday to try and block, or at least delay, the release of a man convicted in the case featured in the Netflix series “Making a Murderer....

NEW YORK - Gwen Ifill, co-anchor of PBS’ “NewsHour” with Judy Woodruff and a veteran journalist who moderated two vice-presidential debates, died Monday of cancer, the network said. ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The director of a West Virginia development group and a mayor are under scrutiny after a racist post about first lady Michelle Obama caused a backlash and prompted calls on social ...

MARRAKECH, Morocco - China and other countries, including Canada, will stay committed to the Paris Agreement on climate change, irrespective of what the next U.S. administration decides to do, the out...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Chelsea Manning, who is more than six years into a 35-year sentence for leaking classified government and military documents to the WikiLeaks website, is asking President Barack Oba...

JERUSALEM - Israel is embarking on a major archaeological expedition to find yet undiscovered Dead Sea Scrolls, an Israeli antiquities official said Monday. Amir Ganor of the Israel Antiquities Author...

LONDON - A British jury has convicted an Italian man of murdering a policeman he met online and trying to dissolve his body in acid, a technique used in the TV show “Breaking Bad.” Jurors ...

MOSCOW - A Russian fighter jet based on an aircraft carrier currently near Syria’s shores has crashed on a training mission, but its pilot has bailed out safely, the Defence Ministry said Monday...