Category Archives: CP_World

New York collects sales tax on even the smallest items, but it probably won’t collect a cent on a nearly half-billion dollar painting by Leonardo da Vinci. The Italian Renaissance artist’s...

JERUSALEM - Israeli warplanes have struck Hamas military targets in the Gaza Strip after Palestinian militants fired rockets into Israel. The Palestinian health ministry said at least 15 people were i...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Minnesota officials need to do more work on the environmental review of Enbridge Energy’s proposed replacement for its aging Line 3 crude oil pipeline, which has drawn strong o...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - He has ignored all the rules of modern-day politics. He speaks unscripted. He skimps on fundraising. He undervalues get-out-the-vote efforts. And he attacks the leaders of his own p...

MOSCOW - Russia’s history Bolshoi Theater is getting ready to premiere a ballet about dancer Rudolf Nureyev after the original opening was postponed and its director arrested. The productionR...

LUMBERTON, N.C. - The North Carolina Highway Patrol says a trucker and a toddler have died after a tractor-trailer carrying chemicals overturned and hit a car. Troopers told local news outlets that th...

WELDON, N.C. - A 1-year-old boy is dead after being shot in the head by someone who fired into his house from a car. Police in Weldon, a town of around 1,600 northeast of Raleigh, say the house was hi...

BRUSSELS - Britain and the European Union hailed a breakthrough Friday that allows them to begin talks on their post-Brexit relations without answering some key questions about how their divorce will ...

WILLIAMSON, W.Va. - A second man has been convicted of murder in the shooting of a coal executive in West Virginia last year. The Williamson Daily News reports that 20-year-old Brandon Lee Fitzpatrick...

NEW YORK - Mira Sorvino says she’s still glad she revealed her sexual misconduct allegations against Harvey Weinstein despite facing a backlash by some who accuse her of keeping silent in order ...