Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is heading back to North Carolina to help turn out the vote for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. As if Obama isn’t enough of a draw in his own...

MADISON, Maine - In the north country of New England, where gun rights are sacrosanct and good jobs vanished along with the paper mills that traditionally propped up the economy, Donald Trump is findi...

SHURA, Iraq - When airstrikes and artillery began rocking the village of Shura south of Mosul, Barah Hussein Abed and his family moved into a hallway in the centre of their home to wait out the barrag...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - South Korean prosecutors have detained a former senior aide of President Park Geun-hye as they widen their investigation into a snowballing scandal centring on whether the ...

WASHINGTON - With voters set to choose a new president and Congress in six days, the Federal Reserve will likely keep a low profile when it ends a meeting Wednesday to try to ensure it doesn’t b...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The next president of the University of Missouri’s four-campus system, Mun Y. Choi, said Wednesday that student and faculty opinions “matter greatly” to him and...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - North Carolina’s process for challenging voters’ registration seems to harken to a bygone era when fewer safeguards were in place, a federal judge said Wednesday as s...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian rescue authorities on Thursday resumed a search for more than 40 people missing from the sinking of an overcrowded speedboat a day earlier. The search effort, which was...

CINCINNATI - Two University of Cincinnati police officers have testified in the murder trial of a former officer, saying that in 2015 when he was working a traffic stop they heard “squealing tir...

NEW YORK - Jury selection began Wednesday in the drug trial of two nephews of Venezuela’s first lady as a judge agreed to let jurors hear taped recordings of the defendants with U.S. government ...