Category Archives: World

LISBON, Portugal (AP) - Former Angolan President Jos Eduardo dos Santos died Friday in a clinic in Barcelona, Spain, the Angolan government said. He was 79 years old and died following a long illness,...

BELLINZONA, Switzerland (AP) - Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini were acquitted on charges of defrauding FIFA by a Swiss criminal court on Friday, a rare positive outcome for the pair who were among soc...

TOKYO (AP) - Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe collapsed and was bleeding after apparently being shot during a campaign speech in western Japan, NHK public television said Friday. NHK says Abe ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden will take executive action Friday to protect access to abortion, according to three people familiar with the matter, as he faces mounting pressure from Democrats ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin told George Floyd's family that he "wishes all the best" for Floyd's children. Chauvin gave brief remarks Thursday before he was ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A leading contender for the Republican nomination for governor in Michigan was sued in the 1990s, accused of using racial slurs about Black people in the workplace and sexually haras...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Until last week when he swore in Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, his successor on the Supreme Court, Justice Stephen Breyer had a rigorous, intellectually challenging job with the hig...

Brittney Griner's guilty plea Thursday has not lessened the support the Olympic gold medalist continues to receive from her WNBA peers. The Phoenix Mercury All-Star pleaded guilty to drug possession c...

LONDON (AP) - British media say Prime Minister Boris Johnson has agreed to resign, ending an unprecedented political crisis over his future. Johnson had rebuffed calls by his Cabinet to step down in t...

MOSCOW (AP) - Jailed American basketball star Brittney Griner returns to a Russian court on Thursday amid a growing chorus of calls for Washington to do more to secure her release nearly five months a...