Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - CBS News will be in election night coverage mode on Nov. 8, but that won’t stop Stephen Colbert from trying to find something funny about the day’s events. Showtime announced Mo...

HARDWICK, Vt. - The owner and publisher of a weekly Vermont newspaper has abandoned his plan for an essay contest to find a new owner for it because he failed to get enough entries. Ross Connelly said...

NEW YORK - Preschoolers can explore an updated version of Elmo’s World when the new season of “Sesame Street” debuts next year. Sesame Workshop says it’s making new episodes of...

VIENNA - The building where Adolf Hitler was born may be spared demolition, but emerge heavily disguised. On Monday, Austria’s interior minister, Wolfgang Sobotka, told the daily Die Presse that...

NEW YORK - Caterpillar said Monday that CEO and Chairman Doug Oberhelman will retire from the company next year and will be replaced as CEO by Jim Umpleby, an executive who has worked at the construct...

DENVER - A man suspected of leaving a backpack bomb outside a police station in a small Colorado mountain town tried several times to remotely detonate the homemade device using a cellphone but failed...

WASHINGTON - U.S. manufacturers boosted output modestly last month, led by greater production of construction supplies, autos and petroleum products. The Federal Reserve says factory production rose 0...

NEW YORK - A book about Israel’s character and the “turning points” in its history that Nobel laureate Shimon Peres completed just weeks before he died will come out next spring. The...

DES MOINES, Iowa - With roughly three weeks to Election Day, Republican strategists nationwide publicly concede Hillary Clinton has a firm grip on the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the Whi...

WASHINGTON - A staple of Palm Beach’s high-end philanthropy circuit, the Mar-a-Lago Club boasts rich history, an 800-seat ballroom and ocean views. But some major charities and fundraisers are n...