Category Archives: World

SAN DIEGO - A Mexican woman has pleaded guilty to bribing a U.S. border inspector in San Diego with cash and sexual favours for allowing people to enter the country illegally. Miriam Juarez’s pl...

LAS VEGAS - A North Las Vegas high school substitute teacher and football coach was arrested in a student-sex case just days after he and his wife made news as parents of the area’s first New Ye...

NEW YORK - A police official on Thursday defended the city’s intention to destroy personal records of holders of its immigrant-friendly municipal ID cards. John Miller, deputy commissioner of in...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - A legislator indicted on allegations of beating his wife should resign, leaders of the South Carolina Legislature said Thursday, with one lawmaker calling it “terrifying and hor...

BOSTON - A cat that fell from a moving car on a Massachusetts highway on Christmas Day has been found alive. Owner Erin McCutcheon was taking 6-year-old Juno from Boston to her mother’s house in...

DETROIT - President-elect Donald Trump has trained his sights on Toyota in his latest effort to badger a company into building its products in the U.S. rather than Mexico. Trump tweeted Thursday that ...

PALMYRA, N.Y. - The owner of a weekly upstate New York newspaper says a man bought hundreds of copies in an unsuccessful effort to keep people from reading about his drunken-driving arrest. State poli...

Turkey’s foreign minister said Thursday he is “more optimistic than ever” that an agreement can be reached to reunite the divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus. But Mevlut Cavusoglu...

AUSTIN, Texas - Top Texas Republicans are eager to bring a fight that sparked upheaval and business boycotts in North Carolina to the country’s largest conservative state, unveiling Thursday a b...

MEXICO CITY - Anger over gasoline prices hikes in Mexico fueled more protests and looting Thursday, and officials said the unrest had resulted in the death of a policeman and a bystander, the ransacki...