Category Archives: World

STOCKHOLM - Thirty-three people were evacuated from a drilling rig in the Norwegian Sea on Tuesday after a fire broke out in the engine room, oil and gas company Statoil said. The fire was reported at...

NEW YORK - CNN and host Jake Tapper have both apologized for an on-screen banner that Tapper said was “unacceptable” and “horrified” him when it appeared during his show on Mon...

NEW YORK - Adam McKay will write and direct a film about Dick Cheney for Paramount Pictures. A representative for Paramount confirmed Tuesday that McKay has written a script about the former vice-pres...

The controversy over drilling for oil in the Atlantic Ocean has been reignited by the election of Donald Trump, and environmentalists and coastal businesses say it could be the first major fault line ...

MIAMI - Authorities say two universities in South Florida were on lockdown for several hours following a shooting that injured a man. Miami news outlets reported the shooting took place shortly after ...

WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump’s charity has admitted that it violated IRS regulations barring it from using its money or assets to benefit Trump, his family, his companies or substan...

LOS EBANOS, Texas - Forget Donald Trump’s Great Wall. The people who live in the bustling, fertile Rio Grande Valley, where the U.S. border meets the Gulf of Mexico, think a “virtual wall&...

DETROIT - Kia is recalling nearly 72,000 SUVs in the U.S. because an electrical short in a computer can cause engine fires. The recall covers Sportage models from 2008 and 2009. Kia says in government...

LONDON - Donald Trump has a plan for making the vaunted relationship between Britain and the U.S. even more special: Make the impish acting leader of the UK Independence Party, Nigel Farage, British a...

LOS ANGELES - Gigi Hadid says her Melania Trump impression during the American Music Awards Sunday “was done in good humour with no bad intent.” In a handwritten note posted on Twitter , t...