Category Archives: World

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Hermine twisted hundreds of miles offshore in the Atlantic Ocean on Monday, creating large waves in some southern New England beach waters that lured in surfers despite the rough su...

LOS ANGELES - Even Beyonc needs to slow down every once in a while. Under doctor’s orders for vocal rest, the superstar singer has postponed the Sept. 7 MetLife Stadium stop of her Formation Wor...

MEXICO CITY - Tropical Storm Newton strengthened into a hurricane Monday as it drenched parts of western Mexico, causing floods and landslides as it headed toward landfall near the Los Cabos resorts. ...

PORTLAND, Maine - No law enforcement statistics even come close to backing up Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s assertion blacks and Hispanics account for “90-plus per cent” of heroin tr...

FAIRFAX, Va. - Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s funeral was attended by thousands and carried on live television, but when the hearse pulled away from the church and headed to his burial s...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The 6,148 whiskey shots perched atop glasses of energy drink waited for the push that might send them tumbling into the record books - just another night in Dubai, and an...

WASHINGTON - Support for the Black Lives Matter movement has increased among young white adults, according to a poll that suggests a majority of white, black, Asian and Hispanic young adults now suppo...

DETROIT - General Motors Co. has settled two federal court cases related to its defective ignition switches, but its legal troubles stemming from the switches are far from over. GM settled the cases f...

LOS ANGELES - Hugh O’Brian, who shot to fame as Sheriff Wyatt Earp in what was hailed as television’s first adult Western, has died. He was 91. A representative from HOBY, a philanthropic ...

NEW YORK - Revelers in costumes danced as the sounds of steel drums filled the air Monday at the city’s annual West Indian Day Parade, but despite an expanded police presence violence again marr...