Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - Long-term U.S. mortgage rates rose this week as the prospect of a year-end interest-rate increase by the Federal Reserve grew more likely. Mortgage giant Freddie Mac says the average for ...

Antonio Guterres pledged Thursday to make the pursuit of peace in a conflict-torn world his “over-arching priority” after being elected the next secretary-general of the United Nations. Th...

UN General Assembly elects Antonio Guterres as secretary-general. More coming. The Associated Press

Thailand’s next king, Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, carries a son’s burden of living up to a great father. King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died Thursday at the age of 88, reigned for 70 y...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - The abduction of almost 300 Chibok schoolgirls by Boko Haram extremists more than two years ago shocked the world. On Thursday, Nigeria’s government announced that 21 of the...

SPRINGS, N.Y. - A New York man is accused of numerous housing and code violations and illegally keeping a deer as a pet in his Long Island yard. East Hampton Town police were called Wednesday after re...

LYONS, Colo. - How to set a tone of woodsy chic at a four-course candlelight dinner served under the stars in the Colorado foothills: Live musicians and flowers, check. Award-winning cuisine, check. B...

LAS VEGAS - The Latest on the awarding of the Nobel Prize in literature to American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan (all times local): 10:15 p.m. Bob Dylan did not mention his winning the Nobel Prize in l...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Lashing back, Donald Trump heatedly rejected the growing list of sexual assault allegations against him as “pure fiction” on Thursday, hammering his female accusers...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Countless former Democrats in Ohio’s blue-collar Mahoning Valley are transferring their adoration for the late Democratic U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. to Republican presid...