Category Archives: World

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. - A suburban New York police chief who orchestrated a department coverup after beating a handcuffed man for stealing embarrassing items from his SUV has been sentenced to nearly fo...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua - On bright-pink billboards across the Nicaraguan capital, President Daniel Ortega looms triumphantly over motorists ahead of next Sunday’s vote, where he’s considered a...

NEW YORK - Many Muslim Americans cringe at the way they have been portrayed by candidates during the presidential campaign - either as potential terrorists or as eyes and ears who can help the governm...

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump is getting a $10 million advertising boost from a super PAC attacking Hillary Clinton as too scandal-plagued for the White House. With this late ad buy, Future 45 and a compa...

BEIJING - Regulators found several safety violations in a coal mine in western China where 33 people died this week after being trapped underground in a gas explosion. China’s State Administrati...

NEW YORK - Somewhat incredulously, Jon Stewart on Tuesday recalled getting into a Twitter war three years ago with the man who could be elected president of the United States next week. The former hos...

NEW YORK - It’s not hard to understand why author George Saunders and rock star-actress-author Carrie Brownstein admire each other. Co-hosting a reading Tuesday night in Manhattan, they each sho...

SAN FRANCISCO - California’s ban on sharing photographs of marked ballots violates voters’ First Amendment right to freedom of speech by preventing them from expressing their political vie...

BILLINGS, Mont. - An ambitious effort to restore tribal control over huge areas of privately owned land on American Indian reservations is projected to run out of money with millions of acres still un...

PRESCOTT, Ariz. - A 102-year-old Prescott, Arizona, woman born before women gained the right to vote in America has cast her ballot early and voted for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinto...