Category Archives: World
Sweet 16: After 2 rough years, Nadal back on top at US Open
NEW YORK - Rafael Nadal entered the 2017 Grand Slam season on a 2 1/2-year drought without so much as one appearance in a major final, let alone a title. He ends it having reasserted himself, capped b...
Sep 10, 2017
Part of Swiss glacier breaks off after residents evacuated
BERLIN - Part of a glacier in the Swiss Alps has broken off and tumbled onto a glacier below after some 220 people in a small nearby town were evacuated as a precaution. Authorities ordered a partial ...
Sep 10, 2017

Israeli PM's son under fire for anti-Semitic post
JERUSALEM - Israeli political leaders lashed out at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s eldest son Sunday for posting an anti-Semitic caricature aimed at his father’s critics. Yair Netanya...
Sep 10, 2017
Weakened Irma lashes much of Florida; full impact unknown
MIAMI - Hurricane Irma gave Florida a coast-to-coast pummeling with winds up to 130 mph Sunday, swamping homes and boats, knocking out power to millions and toppling massive construction cranes over t...
Sep 10, 2017
Waves from Irma flood Havana coast even as storm moves away
HAVANA - Powerful waves and storm surge from Hurricane Irma topped Havana’s iconic Malecon seawall and left thousands of homes, businesses and hotels swamped Sunday, even as the storm moved away...
Sep 09, 2017
Miss North Dakota Cara Mund is new Miss America
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Miss North Dakota, a 23-year-old who said President Donald Trump was wrong to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord, was named Miss America 2018 Sunday night in ...
Sep 09, 2017
4 metal band members arrested in connection with kidnapping
SPOKANE, Wash. - The four members of a well-known Polish death metal band have been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping a woman after a concert last month in Washington state, authorities said. The me...
Sep 09, 2017
WHAT'S HAPPENING: Irma creeps ever closer to Florida
MIAMI - Hurricane Irma hammered Cuba and marched toward the Florida Keys on Saturday with punishing winds and rain. Irma was expected to regain strength over warmer waters before hitting the Keys on S...
Sep 09, 2017

Son of ex-Fox News host Eric Bolling dies in Colorado
BOULDER, Colo. - The son of former Fox News host Eric Bolling has died, just hours after Fox announced that Bolling was leaving the network. Bolling said in a tweet on Saturday that he and his wife, A...
Sep 09, 2017

Bikers in the buff ride through Philadelphia's streets
PHILADELPHIA - And they’re off - the bicyclists and their clothes. Thousands of nude cyclists set off on a trek around Philadelphia on Saturday for the annual Philly Naked Bike Ride. About 3,000...
Sep 09, 2017