Category Archives: World

LONDON - The latest on world reaction to the U.S. presidential election (all times local): 3:30 a.m. South Korean media say U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has promised to maintain a strong U.S. mil...

WASHINGTON - Republicans held onto their slim Senate majority Wednesday, a stinging blow to Democrats in a night full of them. Democrats had been nearly certain of retaking control but saw their hopes...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Republicans won control of governors’ offices in Missouri, New Hampshire and Vermont on Tuesday, picking up a trio of previously Democratic seats in their quest to expand t...

LOS ANGELES - The marijuana legalization movement scored its biggest victory yet Tuesday as voters in California, Massachusetts and Nevada approved recreational pot, making the drug fully legal in the...

WASHINGTON - Republicans retained their lock on the House for two more years early Wednesday as GOP candidates triumphed in a checkerboard of districts in Florida, Virginia and Colorado that Democrats...

BAGHDAD - The stench of death drew Iraqi soldiers to the unsettled plot of land freshly liberated from Islamic State fighters. When a bulldozer scraped the ground, bones poked from just beneath the su...

LONDON - Who is Meghan Markle? For one, the American actress known for her portrayal of a paralegal in the television show, “Suits” has now been described by Kensington Palace as Prince Ha...

NEW YORK - California, Massachusetts and Nevada voted to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, giving a huge boost to the campaign to allow pot nationwide. Six more states also voted on marijuan...

BERLIN - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday he never intended to influence the U.S. presidential election by publishing copies of emails linked to Hillary Clinton and suggested he would do ...

MANAMA, Bahrain - Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife Camilla arrived Tuesday in the tiny island nation of Bahrain and met with its king and crown prince as part of their three-nation Gulf tou...