Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - A surge in banks and other financial stocks that stand to benefit from higher interest rates lifted U.S. indexes Thursday. The dollar climbed to its strongest level in more than a decade ag...

DOVER, Del. - A Delaware Supreme Court ruling earlier this year declaring the state’s death penalty law unconstitutional is retroactive, meaning an inmate convicted of killing a police officer m...

WASHINGTON - There’s more hustle than hope behind an effort to derail Donald Trump’s presidency in the Electoral College. Republican electors are being swamped with pleas to buck tradition...

NEW YORK - Facebook is taking new measures to curb the spread of fake news on its huge and influential social network, focusing on the “worst of the worst” offenders and partnering with ou...

LONDON - U.S. Defence Secretary Ash Carter and his British counterpart expressed confidence Thursday that the Trump administration will continue America’s role as leader of the international mil...

BRUSSELS - French President Francois Hollande accused Russia on Thursday of reneging on its pledges in Syria, as a local leader in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo appealed to Europe to send monitor...

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, Virgin Islands - Authorities say an 18-month-old girl has been shot and killed while riding in a car in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Gov. Kenneth Mapp said Thursday that police have offe...

WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump tweeted Thursday that the Obama administration didn’t bring up Russian hacking of U.S. political sites until after Hillary Clinton lost the election. Th...

ORLANDO, Fla. - President-elect Donald Trump, in the latest stop of his victory lap, told a military veteran-laden crowd in Florida on Friday that while he would build up the country’s armed for...

BRUSSELS - Russia had no seat at the European Union’s table Thursday but it cast a shadow over the summit as a target for criticism of its role in the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine. Russian Pre...