Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - Congress sent President Barack Obama a bipartisan bill that would allow families of Sept. 11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia, putting lawmakers on a collision course with th...

DETROIT - A Volkswagen engineer has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy in the company’s emissions cheating scandal, advancing a criminal investigation by agreeing to testify against other...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Two years after a small South Carolina police chief was fired because she was gay, the same chief said her hometown fired her again in retaliation for having an outside agency investi...

AZRAQ REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan - Actress Angelina Jolie Pitt, a special envoy for the U.N. refugee agency, has called on the international community to end the protracted Syrian civil war and increase sup...

WASHINGTON - U.S. wholesale businesses left their inventories unchanged as their sales fell in July. The Commerce Department said Friday that wholesalers held the line on stockpiles after increasing t...

LANSING, Mich. - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declined to let Michigan’s new ban on straight-party voting take effect for the November election, rejecting state officials’ request to h...

DETROIT - Nissan is recalling over 120,000 cars and SUVs in the U.S. because brake fluid could leak and cause fires. In some cases owners should park their vehicles outside until they are fixed. The r...

COPENHAGEN - In a Sept. 9 story about Facebook allowing postings of a 1972 photo of a naked, screaming girl after a napalm attack in Vietnam, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the social ...

LONDON - MasterCard is being sued for 14 billion pounds ($18.6 billion) on behalf of British consumers for allegedly charging excessive fees on millions of transactions over a 16-year period. The suit...

PARIS - A failed car bombing in the heart of Paris was hatched by a group of French women, including one once engaged to men who had already killed in the name of the Islamic State group, France’...