Category Archives: World

HELENA, Ala. - A fire sparked by a huge explosion on a major gasoline pipeline continued burning Wednesday two days after the fatal blast as congressional Democrats sought an investigation of the Geor...

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. - A suburban New York police chief who orchestrated a department coverup after beating a handcuffed man for stealing embarrassing items from his SUV has been sentenced to nearly fo...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua - On bright-pink billboards across the Nicaraguan capital, President Daniel Ortega looms triumphantly over motorists ahead of next Sunday’s vote, where he’s considered a...

NEW YORK - Many Muslim Americans cringe at the way they have been portrayed by candidates during the presidential campaign - either as potential terrorists or as eyes and ears who can help the governm...

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump is getting a $10 million advertising boost from a super PAC attacking Hillary Clinton as too scandal-plagued for the White House. With this late ad buy, Future 45 and a compa...

BEIJING - Regulators found several safety violations in a coal mine in western China where 33 people died this week after being trapped underground in a gas explosion. China’s State Administrati...

NEW YORK - Somewhat incredulously, Jon Stewart on Tuesday recalled getting into a Twitter war three years ago with the man who could be elected president of the United States next week. The former hos...

NEW YORK - It’s not hard to understand why author George Saunders and rock star-actress-author Carrie Brownstein admire each other. Co-hosting a reading Tuesday night in Manhattan, they each sho...

SAN FRANCISCO - California’s ban on sharing photographs of marked ballots violates voters’ First Amendment right to freedom of speech by preventing them from expressing their political vie...

BILLINGS, Mont. - An ambitious effort to restore tribal control over huge areas of privately owned land on American Indian reservations is projected to run out of money with millions of acres still un...