Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - He felt it in the breeze. Nearing the end of his long, improbable journey to victory in the presidential race, Donald Trump, the candidate of so much tumult and bluster, waxed nostalgic a...

WASHINGTON - Election Day came and went with no obvious signs of the catastrophic problems some had feared, including large-scale fraud, intimidation or hacking. Voters across the country instead enco...

WASHINGTON - What, you thought this would be easy? The 2016 presidential campaign is entering D-Day plus one, the outcome still in doubt in several battleground states. It could be a while before a wi...

NEW YORK - President-elect Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to unify a deeply divided nation, having scored a stunning victory backed by extraordinary support from working-class America. The tough-talking...

WASHINGTON - Americans emphatically declared their anger at government Tuesday as they elected a political outsider who failed to generate much excitement but offered the prospect of change. Exit poll...

LOS ANGELES - A gay YouTube personality has pleaded guilty to felony vandalism in an incident in which he claimed he was the victim of a hate crime. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Of...

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey said Tuesday that the U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led forces leading an assault on the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa should not enter the city itself but merely help encircle i...

LOD, Israel - After years of abuse and death threats, Duaa Abu-Sharkh had finally divorced her husband, agreeing even to give up custody of her four young children and family property to escape his vi...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - The New York gravestone of Susan B. Anthony is thickly encrusted with “I Voted” stickers on an Election Day that could put America’s first female president in the W...

WASHINGTON - We’ll know soon enough who won. We already know the prize: A big, ugly wound in the heart of American politics. Nearly two years of relentless campaigning and racially loaded rhetor...