Category Archives: World

DES MOINES, Iowa - Ladies in Washington planning to celebrate Donald Trump’s inauguration as the next president won’t, it turns out, need a fairy godmother to find something to wear. The p...

WASHINGTON - Vice-President Joe Biden is outlining how he intends to pursue his “cancer moonshot” agenda after the end of the Obama administration. Biden says in a San Francisco speech tha...

MEXICO CITY - Thousands of Mexicans marched in the capital Monday to complain about a gasoline price increase, demonstrating a day after police in Sonora state fought a pitched, three-hour battle to f...

WASHINGTON - Federal ethics officials have cleared President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for the Environmental Protection Agency to be confirmed by the Senate. The Office of Government Ethics o...

NEW YORK - From Marlon Brando to Patricia Arquette, Hollywood stars have often used their moments on the stage to make political pleas. Some inspire change, some polite applause and some are simply mo...

DETROIT - The Volkswagen executive who once was in charge of complying with U.S. emissions regulations was arrested during the weekend in Florida and accused of deceiving federal regulators about the ...

Some army officers, rebel groups and criminal networks in Congo are still illegally exploiting the country’s gold and mineral riches despite government and military bans, U.N. experts said in a ...

Hundreds of programs at for-profit colleges are at risk of losing federal funding unless their graduates start earning better wages, federal officials say. On Monday, the Education Department issued i...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court said Monday it won’t hear an appeal from three sex trafficking victims who accuse advertising website Backpage.com of helping to promote the exploitation of childr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Few people realized it at the time, but the world shifted fundamentally a decade ago when Steve Jobs pulled the first iPhone from Apple’s bag of technological tricks. “Ever...