Category Archives: World

ST. LOUIS - Protests near St. Louis turned violent for the second night Saturday in reaction to the acquittal of a white former police officer in the fatal shooting of a black man, as a small group of...

ADELAIDE, Australia - For a stowaway who made a 16-kilometre (10-mile) journey squeezed in a wheel arch, a koala was lucky to escape with just scratches. The driver of the four-wheel vehicle was unawa...

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territory - The Hamas militant group on Sunday said it has accepted key conditions demanded by its rival, President Mahmoud Abbas, including nationwide elections in the West Bank...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - “The Crown” star Claire Foy nibbled on a scone with jam and cream while “Transparent” star Jeffrey Tambor eyed the finger sandwiches, including English ...

WASHINGTON - The Latest on the rallies and protests in Washington on Saturday (all times local): 8:25 p.m. A day of competing protests in Washington unexpectedly included a group of Black Lives Matter...

HOUSTON - Thousands of Houston firefighters were told to stay home at the height of Harvey’s flooding even as calls for help overwhelmed 911 dispatchers, the president of the city’s firefi...

DAYTON, Ohio - A volunteer firefighter in Ohio has been suspended indefinitely after a Facebook post that stated he would save a dog from a burning building before a black person. WHIO-TV reports (htt...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Twelve Harvard University student groups are condemning the school’s reversal of a decision to name Chelsea Manning a visiting fellow. The groups released a statement Saturday...

MIAMI - As the devastated Florida Keys began reopening to residents who fled Hurricane Irma, officials warned the returning islanders to bring enough supplies to sustain them for a while, because no o...

FREEPORT, N.Y. - A dog that disappeared in Florida in February 2016 has been found in New York. A woman who said she found the German shepherd-Jack Russell Terrier mix brought it last week to a Long I...