Category Archives: World

OKLAHOMA CITY - A record-tying earthquake in the edge of Oklahoma’s key energy-producing areas rattled the Midwest from Illinois to the southwest part of Texas on Saturday, bringing fresh attent...

MINNEAPOLIS - The remains of Jacob Wetterling, an 11-year-old boy kidnapped from a rural Minnesota road nearly 27 years ago, were identified Saturday, authorities said, providing long-awaited answers ...

NEW DELHI - Bangladeshi authorities executed a top Islamist party leader convicted of war crimes involving the nation’s 1971 independence war against Pakistan, officials said. Mir Quasem Ali, a ...

NEW YORK - Dabney Montgomery, who served with the all-black Tuskegee Airmen in World War II and marched with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., has died. He was 93. His wife, Amelia Montgomer...

DETROIT - Donald Trump swayed to songs of worship, read scripture, and donned a Jewish prayer shawl Saturday during a visit to a predominantly black church in Detroit, where he called for a “civ...

WASHINGTON - City officials in Washington are tearing up a littering citation issued to a toddler. The Washington Post reports (http://wapo.st/2cdBTdD ) 2-year-old Harper Westover received a “No...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Two months from Election Day, Hillary Clinton has a clear edge over Donald Trump in nearly every measure traditionally used to gauge success in presidential races. She’s raising...

CARBONDALE, Pa. - A Pennsylvania police station has reopened after being cleared of a swarm of bees that forced officers to abandon the post. The (Scranton) Times-Tribune (http://bit.ly/2cnxy7d ) repo...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis on Saturday denounced what he called the modern-day sin of indifference to hunger, exploitation and other suffering, while commending the example of Mother Teresa on the ev...

ISTANBUL - Turkish tanks crossed into Syria to the west of a frontier town seized from the Islamic State group last week, in a “new phase” of an operation aimed at sealing off the last str...