Category Archives: World

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Irma’s leading edge brought hurricane-force winds to the Florida Keys late Saturday, bending palm trees and spitting rain as the storm swirled north with 120 mph (190 kph)...

MIAMI - Hurricane Irma has already forced the postponement of next weekend’s matchup between No. 10 Florida State and No. 16 Miami. The game, scheduled for Tallahassee on Sept. 16, will be playe...

BANGOR, Maine - Police in the Maine city that’s home to Stephen King played a prank to coincide with the opening of the horror film “It,” based on King’s book. The police depar...

BARCELONA, Spain - A Spanish judge ordered police to search a printer’s shop and two offices of a regional newspaper in Catalonia as part of an investigation into alleged preparations for an ill...

WASHINGTON - Don’t expect the United States to step in and resolve what is increasingly being described as an ethnic cleansing campaign against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims. Not wanting to u...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Hotel dishwasher Wilman Hernandez waited with his wife and young son at a Miami Beach bus stop, desperately looking for a way to get to a shelter where they could ride out Hurr...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump was in the mood to celebrate after cutting a big deal with opposition Democrats. Joshing with Northeastern officials in the Cabinet Room, Trump hailed New York Demo...

DETROIT - A Michigan woman who sacrificed the chance to prolong her life in order to give birth to her sixth child died early Saturday, her husband said. Nick DeKlyen told The Associated Press that hi...

The Latest on Hurricane Irma (all times local): 7:10 p.m. The centre of Hurricane Irma has now cleared the Cuban coast and entered the Florida Straits, where bathtub-warm water of nearly 90 degrees (3...

ESTERO, Fla. - With Hurricane Irma taking aim at Florida’s southwestern coast, thousands of desperate and frustrated people waited in line for hours Saturday to get inside a shelter - a minor le...