Category Archives: World

AUSTIN, Texas - More than a year after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott made firearms, including openly holstered weapons, legal in more places in the state, disputes remain over where guns are allowed - much t...

LOS ANGELES - In a story Dec. 3 about the fatal stabbing of a professor, The Associated Press misidentified the professor’s school in the first paragraph in some versions. The professor was from...

NEW YORK - As a prominent advocate for human rights, the poet Rose Styron knew well the abuses in Fidel Castro’s Cuba and the censorship of artists and publications with dissenting views. But wh...

POWELL, Ohio - The oldest known gorilla living in a zoo is doing well after a surgical biopsy ahead of her 60th birthday on Dec. 22. The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium said Saturday that veterinarians succ...

NEW YORK - The chef credited with inventing General Tso’s Chicken, a world-famous Chinese dish smothered in a sweet sauce that was never a staple in China, has died in Taiwan at 98. Peng Chang-k...

ROME - Italian voters dealt Premier Matteo Renzi a stinging defeat on his reforms referendum, triggering his resignation announcement and galvanizing the populist, opposition 5-Star Movement’s d...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The next Congress will begin work immediately next year toward repealing President Barack Obama’s health care law but delay the changes as Republicans try to come up with an al...

GETTYSBURG, Pa. - A Gettysburg wax museum that features the likeness of every U.S. president and first lady has closed and the figures are up for auction. The Hall of Presidents and First Ladies Museu...

BOSTON - Harvard University has placed its men’s cross country team on athletic probation after school lawyers found that the 2014 team made “crude and sexualized” documents about th...

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. - A Florida man is being accused of being a Christmas Grinch after authorities say he broke into a post office and tried to steal packages. Francis Keller, 56, was arrested by the ...