Category Archives: World

SAN FRANCISCO - Samsung said it is halting sales of the star-crossed Galaxy Note 7 smartphone after a spate of fires involving new devices that were supposed to be safe replacements for recalled model...

NEW YORK - Worries about the safety of Samsung’s replacement Galaxy Note 7 smartphones have consumers fretting about what to do. U.S. regulators ordered a recall of the original Note 7, a huge p...

BOSTON - A heartfelt letter physicist Albert Einstein wrote to his son is up for sale through a Boston auction house. The one-page letter was written around 1929 to Eduard Einstein. It could fetch mor...

PHOENIX - A Tucson man accused of plotting a terrorist attack on a motor vehicle office in metro Phoenix has agreed to a plea deal and is facing at least seven years in an Arizona prison, authorities ...

OMAHA, Neb. - Investor Warren Buffett says he’s never used the kind of tax deduction that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump did, and Buffett says he’s paid taxes every year fo...

UNION, N.J. - Authorities are investigating two reports of spray-painted swastikas being found at the New Jersey home of a congressional candidate. Indian-American Democrat Peter Jacob says the swasti...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Donald Trump built the Taj Mahal casino and once called it “the eighth wonder of the world.” The Republican candidate in the race for the presidency - who took his At...

LOS ANGELES - “Entertainment Tonight” host Nancy O’Dell says women shouldn’t be objectified, even in the locker room. On the entertainment news show Monday, O’Dell addres...

NEW YORK - Enough, already. In a campaign in which the size of a candidate’s genitalia has been publicly discussed, in a week in which shockingly sexual video has been unearthed and after a deba...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - In a story Oct. 10 about voter registration, The Associated Press reported erroneously that North Carolina has same-day registration on Election Day. The state has same-day registr...