Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - Love made Edith Windsor a married woman. Widowhood made her a gay rights pioneer. Facing a big tax bill after the death of her first spouse, Windsor took on the federal law that prevented h...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A Kentucky woman was sickened by Legionnaires’ disease after staying at a hotel near the Tennessee home of famed singer Elvis Presley, and an autopsy says the pneumonia caused h...

London police say a woman has been arrested on suspicion of attempted burglary near the London school attended by four-year-old Prince George after a security incident at the school. Police said Wedne...

WASHINGTON - House Speaker Paul Ryan backed off months of promises that the Republicans’ tax plan won’t add to the nation’s ballooning deficit, declaring Wednesday in an AP Newsmaker...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Pete V. Domenici, the son of Italian immigrants who rose to become a power broker in the U.S. Senate, died Wednesday in New Mexico. The Republican was known for reaching across the...

LONDON - A late Picasso portrait of his paramour Jacqueline Roque is going up for auction for the first time, with an estimated price of up to $30 million, Christie’s auction house said Wednesda...

NEW YORK - The publisher of Hillary Clinton’s new book “What Happened” is questioning Amazon reviews posted within a day of the book’s release. Published Tuesday, the book is C...

SALT LAKE CITY - A gay couple denied the chance to have a baby using a surrogate challenged a Utah law’s reference to heterosexual parents Tuesday in a case that illustrates the legal complicati...

COVINA, Calif. - Police say a man with a knife tried to rob a Southern California pizza restaurant just a few hours after burglars had already stolen from it. Covina police Lt. Trevor Gaumer tells the...

WASHINGTON - Higher energy costs led to prices at the wholesale level rising in August at the fastest pace in four months. The Labor Department said Wednesday that its producer price index, which meas...