Category Archives: World

STOCKHOLM - Reindeer living on the Arctic island of Svalbard are getting smaller - and scientists say climate change may be the cause. Scientists from Britain and Norway have found that adult Svalbard...

NEW YORK - President-elect Donald Trump on Monday cancelled the only news conference he has scheduled since his election, continuing to communicate with the public via Twitter and carefully curated, o...

OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma plans to force hospitals, nursing homes, restaurants and public schools to post signs inside public restrooms directing pregnant women where to receive services as part of an ...

WASHINGTON - The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times EST): 11:45 p.m. Donald Trump says he is leaving his businesses before Jan. 20 so he can “focus full time” on being presi...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - The U.S. government on Monday declassified a second set of records relating to human rights abuses committed during Argentina’s 1976-1983 dictatorship. The release is p...

DENVER - A federal judge dealt a severe setback Monday to a longshot plan to deny Donald Trump the presidency through the Electoral College, refusing to suspend a Colorado law requiring the state̵...

WELLESLEY, Mass. - A lawyer for one of two college students barred from their campus for taunting students at Hillary Clinton’s alma mater in Massachusetts is demanding an apology after the ban ...

BOSTON - A young humpback whale that was tangled up in fishing gear off Boston for several days has been freed. The Center for Coastal Studies says its Marine Animal Entanglement Response team freed t...

PHILADELPHIA - In a story Dec. 12 about the sentencing of former U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah, The Associated Press reported that Fattah took a $1 million loan in 2007 from Sallie Mae’s chairman. The ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. - Through a dozen witnesses on Tuesday, federal prosecutors reconstructed the activities of Dylann Roof in the months leading up to night he went to a black Charleston church and shot...