Category Archives: World

CHICAGO - The Chicago Police Department plans to hire more than 500 additional officers as it struggles to deal with a violent year full of killings and gun crimes, a city official told The Associated...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva must stand trial on charges of money laundering and corruption, a Brazilian judge ruled Tuesday. Judge Sergio Moro said there is enough evid...

NEW YORK - World leaders are pushing to end the overuse of antibiotics and to encourage the development of new medicines, driven by concern that drug-resistant germs could lead to millions of deaths a...

WASHINGTON - THE ISSUE: The financial crisis that struck in 2008 touched off the worst recession since the 1930s Great Depression, wiping out $11 trillion in U.S. household wealth and leaving about 8 ...

LOS ANGELES - Irreconcilable differences have brought an end to a Hollywood romance for the ages. Angelina Jolie Pitt filed for divorce from Brad Pitt on Monday after 12 years together. A collection o...

BROWNSTOWN, Pa. - Police say a 2-year-old Pennsylvania girl has been pinned against a barn by a minivan and died. Tuesday’s accident happened on the same block where a toddler was struck and kil...

LOS ANGELES - #Brangelina may be the top trending hashtag Tuesday, but Jennifer Aniston’s face is the one saturating social media. Aniston memes of all kinds were the Internet’s response t...

NEW YORK - The Latest on the divorce of Angelina Jolie Pitt and Brad Pitt (all times local): 1:15 p.m. Brad Pitt has released a statement on his divorce filing from Angelina Jolie Pitt, pleading with ...

MUSKEGON, Mich. - A man was charged with murder Tuesday in the 2013 disappearance of a gas station clerk in western Michigan, a case that had stymied investigators until a teenage girl in an unrelated...

NEW YORK - Television producer David Simon and Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity are tossing vulgarities at each other on social media. Simon, who made “The Wire,” sent out a mocking twee...