Category Archives: World

MINNEAPOLIS - Several Midwestern states were a soggy mess Thursday after up to 10 inches of rain fell in parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa and triggered mudslides that caused one death. Washed-ou...

LOS ANGELES - The FBI is gathering information about an incident involving Brad Pitt and his family aboard a private flight last week, the agency confirmed Thursday. Spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said th...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Two students at a Northern California university scrawled swastikas and other hate speech in residence halls, the campus president said Thursday. The swastikas were found Tuesday at...

ATHENS, Tenn. - Three people died Thursday in a shooting at an east Tennessee factory, police said. The shooter’s body was found in a bathroom, dead of what “appears to be a self-inflicted...

NEW YORK - Britain’s Sky News has won the International Emmy for News for “Migration Crisis” describing the perilous journey of a group of migrants from Turkey to Greece as well as c...

PHOENIX - Three Phoenix police officers have resigned after a man alleged they forced him to eat marijuana found in his vehicle to avoid going to jail, Chief Joseph Yahner said Thursday. A fourth offi...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Thursday paid tribute to comedian Mel Brooks, chef Jose Andres, NPR interviewer Terry Gross and others at a White House ceremony celebrating “creators who ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. - Kentucky’s Supreme Court has overridden the state’s Republican governor in a bitter dispute with the son of a Democrat who preceded him, ruling the state’s top execu...

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump’s advisers are urging him to keep his cool during next week’s presidential debate and resist attempts by Hillary Clinton to provoke him with questions about his b...

WASHINGTON - The Education Department withdrew recognition of the nation’s largest accreditor of for-profit colleges on Thursday, a decision that could force schools to close and threaten financ...