Category Archives: World

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to create a new agency to better investigate police shootings and misconduct allegations is moving toward approval, even as critics say it’s not strong en...

HONOLULU - A North Carolina concert promoter pleaded guilty Tuesday to defrauding the University of Hawaii of $200,000 by promising to secure Stevie Wonder for an athletics department fundraising conc...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - A school district is banning clown costumes and any “symbols of terror” during this year’s Halloween season as authorities investigate the authenticity of clown-re...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - An attorney representing two Sacramento, California, police officers said Tuesday that they faced a “terrifying situation” with a mentally disturbed man on drugs and a...

Airlines are cancelling some flights to the Caribbean and even the mainland U.S. as Hurricane Matthew is expected to spin toward Florida later this week. By late Tuesday, American Airlines had cancell...

MINNEAPOLIS - About a dozen people were arrested in cities across the U.S. on Tuesday for running what authorities called a sophisticated sex trafficking operation in which hundreds of women were brou...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - South Carolina’s governor said she would issue an evacuation order Wednesday so that 1 million people would have time to leave the coast ahead of Hurricane Matthew, and r...

NEW YORK - Rita Moreno said that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump “scares the hell out of me” and urged Latinos to register to vote in order to keep him out of the White Hous...

MIAMI - The Latest on Hurricane Matthew and Tropical Storm Nicole (all times local): 6:30 a.m. Officials say some 3,000 people have already checked into shelters in Florida ahead of Hurricane Matthew&...

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio - Bill Clinton tried to avoid muddling his message again as he campaigned for his wife in battleground Ohio a day after he described President Barack Obama’s health care law a...