Category Archives: World

BOGOTA - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has gotten a major boost in his bid to deliver peace with the country’s Constitution Court granting him “fast-track” authority to quic...

WASHINGTON - Aleppo’s fall to Syrian government forces is shaping up as the first major test of President-elect Donald Trump’s desire to co-operate with Russia, whose military support has ...

WASHINGTON - Is hydraulic fracturing - better known as fracking - safe, as the oil and gas industry claims? Or does the controversial drilling technique that has spurred a domestic energy boom contami...

CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelans took a break from lining up to buy food and medicine Tuesday and spent their day waiting in crowds to deposit bank notes about to become worthless. As tempers flared i...

HONOLULU - An Army veteran who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the U.S. into World War II and later volunteered at the historic site has died at age 99. Herb Weatherwax greeted people...

OWASSO, Okla. - An Oklahoma couple has been arrested in what a police officer calls the worst case of child abuse he’s seen. Police arrested 25-year-old Kevin Fowler and 24-year-old Aislyn Mille...

WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump has offered Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke the job of interior secretary, though it’s unclear whether the congressman has accepted, two people with knowledge o...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Republican Gov. John Kasich signed a bill Tuesday imposing a 20-week abortion ban while vetoing stricter provisions in a separate measure that would have barred the procedure at the f...

MOSUL, Iraq - She survived the first stone that struck her, then the second. One of the Islamic State group’s fighters bent down and pressed his fingers to the side of her neck to check her puls...

BEIRUT - The latest on the Syrian conflict (all times local): 11:45 p.m. Syria’s U.N. ambassador is hailing “the liberation of Aleppo” and rejecting allegations that his country̵...