Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - Kirstjen Nielsen helped shepherd President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security secretary pick through his Senate confirmation process. Now she’s got her own team gu...

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump handily won the election a year ago Wednesday. Ask him and he’ll tell you about it. Ten months into his presidency, Trump is still focused - some say fixated - on the e...

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas - The gunman who killed more than two dozen at a small-town Texas church briefly escaped from a mental health facility in New Mexico in 2012, police reports indicated. The re...

DANANG, Vietnam - Foreign and trade ministers of 21 Pacific Rim economies meeting in Danang, Vietnam, appeared to be struggling for a consensus on open markets and other strategic issues ahead of a re...

WASHINGTON - The Texas church massacre is providing a familiar frustration for law enforcement: FBI agents are unable to unlock the gunman’s encrypted cellphone to learn what evidence it might h...

OCEAN SHORES, Wash. - Barbara Patton scans the expansive beach on Washington’s outer coast looking for telltale signs of dead seabirds: a feather sticking straight up, dark colours in the sand, ...

BEIJING - U.S. and Chinese companies on Wednesday signed business deals the two sides valued at $9 billion during a visit by President Donald Trump in a tradition aimed at blunting criticism of Beijin...

NASHVILLE - Country star Keith Urban was honoured for his philanthropy and hit country songwriter Bob DiPiero was honoured as an icon by the performing rights organization BMI on Tuesday. The BMI Coun...

RICHMOND, Va. - A transgender candidate defeated an incumbent Virginia lawmaker Tuesday who sponsored a bill that would have restricted which bathrooms she could use. Democrat Danica Roem, a former jo...

BEIJING - The Latest on President Donald Trump’s trip to Asia (all times local): 3:50 p.m. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping (shee jihn-peeng) are having tea at the start o...