Category Archives: World

GATLINBURG, Tenn. - With flames dripping from tree branches and the air filled with embers, thousands of people raced through a hellish landscape as they fled wildfires that killed three people and de...

WASHINGTON - For her family’s final Christmas in the White House, Michelle Obama used the holiday decor to highlight her core initiatives as first lady: service, education and health. The famili...

BISMARCK, N.D. - The Latest on the protest against the Dakota Access oil pipeline (all times local): 1:50 p.m. A spokesman for North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple says the governor has no intention of bl...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A 19-year-old southwest Missouri woman allowed her intoxicated boyfriend to cut her arm and drink her blood while discussing vampires, and then stabbed him during an ensuing argumen...

ATLANTA - Country music icon Dolly Parton says she’s heartbroken about wildfires that tore through the Tennessee county where she grew up but spared the Dollywood theme park that bears her name....

LONDON - Oil prices surged Wednesday on expectations of a production cut from the OPEC cartel of producers. Shares in oil companies rose in the slipstream of higher oil prices, helping indexes around ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. banks’ earnings in the July-September period jumped nearly 13 per cent from a year earlier as continued growth in lending fueled interest income. The data issued Tuesday by the...

WASHINGTON - U.S. consumer confidence rebounded this month to the highest level in more than nine years as Americans appeared unfazed by a tumultuous election campaign. The Conference Board says its c...

WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that anyone who burns an American flag should face unspecified “consequences,” such as jail or a loss of citizenship. But the Supreme...

FORT PIERCE, Fla. - Rapper Kodak Black has been extradited to South Carolina to answer to a charge of criminal sexual conduct after serving a drug case sentence in Florida. The Florida Sun Sentinel re...