Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama staunchly defended Hillary Clinton’s use of private email as an “honest mistake,” suggesting Wednesday that voters should discount innuendo-filled...

WASHINGTON - With six days before Americans choose a new president, the Federal Reserve sent a dual message Wednesday: It isn’t yet time to raise interest rates. But it’s getting very clos...

NEW YORK - The shell of Gawker has settled with Hulk Hogan for $31 million, ending a years-long fight that led to the media company’s bankruptcy, the shutdown of Gawker.com and the sale of Gawke...

PITTSBURGH - A woman jailed on charges she killed her toddler son sent a video of the boy’s apparently lifeless body to his father in a jealous, vengeful rage during a text-messaged argument tha...

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. - Max Weinberg, the drummer for Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, has paid $2 million for a vacant lakefront lot with mountain views in New York’s Adirondacks. The Adiro...

INDIANAPOLIS - A key aide to Donald Trump’s vice-presidential nominee, Gov. Mike Pence, continues to earn $23,000 a month as Indiana’s sole Washington lobbyist even as he has taken a paid ...

BERLIN - Lawyers for Turkey’s president and a German television comedian have argued in a Hamburg court over whether the comic should be banned from repeating a crude poem he wrote about the Tur...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Wednesday withdrew six diplomats from its embassy in New Delhi, officials said, amid rising tension between the two countries over the disputed region of Kashmir. In another ma...

DETROIT - Ford’s U.S. sales fell 12 per cent in October, a steeper-than-expected drop that lowered the overall industry’s sales. Most automakers reported sales Tuesday, but Ford’s re...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Police in Little Rock are searching for a former drummer for the Grammy Award-winning polka-rock band Brave Combo who hasn’t been seen in two weeks. Police say Joe Cripps was...