Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - The man who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan 35 years ago will leave a Washington psychiatric hospital to live full-time in Virginia on Sept. 10, his lawyer said Thursday....

WASHINGTON - U.S. construction spending was unchanged in July as weakness in spending on government projects offset gains in home building and the strongest month for non-residential construction on r...

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - A Massachusetts town has decided to extend its concert curfew by 15 minutes, just for Bruce Springsteen. The Sun Chronicle (http://bit.ly/2bW0jev ) reports that the Foxborough boar...

ATLANTA - Grammy-winning singer Toni Braxton will be honoured at the BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Awards in Atlanta. Braxton will receive the BMI President’s Award on Thursday for her musical achievement...

Beach Boys singer Mike Love has detailed the band’s brief relationship with cult leader Charles Manson in the late 1960s in a new memoir. People magazine reports Love writes that Manson and his ...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis on Thursday proposed that caring for the environment be added to the traditional seven works of mercy that Christians are called to perform, taking his green agenda to a ne...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - For weeks, Donald Trump flirted with a self-described “softening” of the hard-line immigration policies that propelled him to the Republican nomination, raising the hopes ...

YANGON, Myanmar - In a story Aug. 30 about a Facebook post criticizing former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the Buddhist nationalist group Ma Ba Tha...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Two small planes collided in the air over a remote area of western Alaska on Wednesday, killing all five people on board the two aircraft, officials said. State troopers said the c...

STATELINE, Nev. - The Latest from President Barack Obama’s comments on Wednesday (all times local PDT): 10 p.m. President Obama says no nation can tackle climate change by itself. He says that&#...