Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - Most of the states that first endorsed the Common Core academic standards are still using them in some form, despite continued debate over whether they are improving student performance i...

RENK COUNTY, South Sudan - “They told us we’d only be here for six days, and that was six years ago,” Ramadan Wani says. Anxiously rubbing his hands together, the 46-year-old sits hu...

NEW YORK - The problems keep piling up for Facebook, and it’s unclear how long the internet giant will be able to brush them aside as it barrels toward acquiring its next billion users. The worl...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - At Dubai’s Black Tap restaurant, the Americana doesn’t stop at the hamburgers cooking on the grill or hip hop pumping from the speakers. It’s also being...

WASHINGTON - Homebuilders slowed their pace of construction by 0.8 per cent in August, the second straight monthly decline. A steep drop in multifamily construction more than offset a slight gain in s...

WASHINGTON - The deficit in the broadest measure of U.S. trade rose to the highest level in more than eight years this spring, reflecting in part a drop in fines and penalties paid by foreign companie...

LEBANON, Ind. - An Indiana judge is set to hear arguments in a lawsuit filed by former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle’s ex-wife alleging that the company knew of Fogle’s sexual interest in ch...

LOS ANGELES - A small earthquake with an epicenter just outside Los Angeles has gotten people in southern California talking on social media. The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude-3.6 quake hit ...

PASADENA, Texas - The U.S. government received reports of three spills at one of Houston’s dirtiest Superfund toxic waste sites in the days after the drenching rains from Hurricane Harvey finall...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Hurricane Maria barrelled toward Puerto Rico on Tuesday night after wreaking widespread devastation on Dominica and leaving the small Caribbean island virtually incommunicado. ...