Category Archives: World

BERLIN - A lawyer for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday he will challenge a decision by German prosecutors to drop an investigation of a TV comic who wrote a crude poem about the p...

Portugal’s former prime minister Antonio Guterres, who was formally nominated on Thursday to be the next U.N. secretary-general, said he faces “huge challenges” and hopes to see unit...

HOBBS, N.M. - Authorities say a fugitive’s sweet tooth helped police capture a wanted New Mexico man after he tried to take a doughnut without paying for it. The Hobbs News-Sun reports (https://...

WASHINGTON - U.S. services companies grew last month at the fastest pace in nearly a year, potential good news for the U.S. economy. The Institute for Supply Management said Wednesday that its service...

WASHINGTON - Orders to U.S. factories edged higher in August, with a key category that tracks business investment plan rising for a third straight month. Factory orders increased 0.2 per cent in Augus...

NEW YORK - Arch Coal says it has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and its stock will trade again on the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday. The company, which has been hurt by weakening de...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - The U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia is confirming that an American has been killed in a part of the country that has seen months of deadly protests. The embassy on Wednesday attribute...

WASHINGTON - TIM KAINE: “We do not think that women should be punished as Donald Trump said they should for making the decision to have an abortion….That is the fundamental difference betw...

WASHINGTON - A claim from the vice-presidential debate between Gov. Mike Pence, R-Ind., and Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and how it stacks up with the facts: PENCE: “Hillary Clinton had a private serv...

WASHINGTON - A claim from the vice-presidential debate between Republican Mike Pence and Democrat Tim Kaine, and how it stacks up with the facts: KAINE: “Governor Pence said, inarguably Vladimir...