Category Archives: World

BOSTON - A man dressed as a clown who’s running for a Boston city council seat has caused a stir on a college campus. Police tell The Boston Herald that Pat Payaso’s presence near a pollin...

PORTLAND, Maine - A Maine toddler whose 2011 disappearance sparked a massive and ongoing investigation has been declared legally dead, clearing the way for her mother to file a wrongful-death lawsuit ...

WASHINGTON - It’s hard to justify $45 for an ordinary black cotton T-shirt, but the customer at a store in Washington D.C.’s Adams Morgan neighbourhood does so without question. The clerk ...

WASHINGTON - The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose by 12,000 last week to 272,000 as Florida continued to absorb the economic impact of Hurricane Irma. NUMBERS: The Labor Dep...

Police officers physically removed a woman from a Southwest Airlines plane before it took off from Baltimore, the latest passenger scuffle to be captured on video and magnified on social media. After ...

CHICAGO - The owner of a suburban music venue plans to open a Chicago Music Hall of Fame next year. Ron Onesti is the owner of the Arcada Theatre in St. Charles. He tells the (Arlington Heights) Daily...

MEXICO CITY - Civil defence officials in northeast Mexico say a light rain was accompanied by small fish that fell from the sky. Tamaulipas civil defence says in a brief statement that rain Tuesday in...

BEIJING - China on Thursday ordered North Korean-owned businesses to close, cutting foreign revenue for the isolated North under U.N. sanctions imposed over its nuclear and missile programs. China is ...

BRUSSELS - The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator warned Thursday that talks on Britain’s departure from the bloc are weeks, possibly months, away from making substantial progress, d...

WASHINGTON - Melania Trump is listening and learning about the nation’s opioid epidemic. The first lady heard Thursday from experts and people affected by addiction to drugs whom she invited to ...