Category Archives: World

The United States abstained for the first time in 25 years Wednesday on a U.N. resolution condemning America’s economic embargo against Cuba, a measure it had always vehemently opposed. The U.S....

KAPOLEI, Hawaii - Waves, wind and darkness hampered the ocean search off Hawaii for a Chinese man reported missing while attempting to set a sailing record, the U.S. Coast Guard pilot who was the miss...

NEW YORK - A front page of The New York Times from Sept. 12, 2001, showing the burning World Trade Center and autographed by five U.S. presidents sold for $11,000 on Wednesday at an auction of preside...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - An official says the family of a then 7-year-old who was suspended from school from nibbling his breakfast pastry into the shape of a gun has reached a settlement with the school depa...

AUSTIN, Texas - A conservative students group’s bake sale parodying affirmative action has drawn a crowd of 300 protesters at the University of Texas in Austin. The Young Conservatives of Texas ...

CANNON BALL, N.D. - Law enforcement officers dressed in riot gear and firing bean bags and pepper spray evicted protesters Thursday from private land in the path of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, dra...

PORTLAND, Ore. - Joseph Tanner was resting his arms on his surf board, his lower body dangling in the water, when something grabbed his right leg and yanked him under the waves. In an instant, Tanner ...

PORTLAND, Ore. - Oregon’s top civil rights lawyer filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against his boss and others in the state Department of Justice after learning that his colleagues surveilled h...

SALEM, Ore. - A South Korean man flown to the U.S. 37 years ago and adopted by an American couple at age 3 has been ordered deported back to a country that is completely alien to him. “It is hea...

LOS ANGELES - Actress Amber Tamblyn says she is expecting a baby girl. The 33-year-old actress writes in an essay for Glamour magazine that she is “going to be a mother soon. I’m pregnant,...